After a week of camp with mostly non-Christian students… I’m more aware than usual of the fact that modern evangelical speech is for “insiders”. My neighbor Andy always asks great questions… he’s a true learner. After his first week of camp a few years ago, he says to me: What does it mean to [...]
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The Language of Christianity
2 Comments Scott Pagel on Aug 8th 2011
Doug Lucas at www.brigada.org (and president of mission organization Team Expansion)asks: Here’s a question that many USA-based mission agency home offices are going to face: What impact will the new health insurance legislation have on insurance plans for their global work force? How will Obama health care plans impact our organization? Got any favorite website [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 13th 2010
Failure has always been a part of my growth… physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, educational, occupational. It seems that as I grow, I also find myself failing. In fact, failure often leads to growth. Do we make room for failure today? Do we allow people opportunities to fail without making them feel like failures? Do people [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 12th 2010
Michael at The View From Taiwan, who seems to have connections everywhere, posts: Mark from Pinyin News writes to tell me that he has put online Christine Lin’s 100 page magnum opus on the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the independence and democracy movement originally published in Sino-Platonic Papers. The file is 8.44 mb, so [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 7th 2010
It’s nice to have a fresh start. I used to blog at SQJTaipei but it died out for a few reasons and after several months of thinking about it… I’m ready to start this new blog. The old blog was generally well received and had a small following… it probably didn’t NEED to die. Sometimes [...]
6 Comments Scott Pagel on Mar 31st 2010
