Feb

Should Be Required Reading for Single Women

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Relationships

Just saw this book at Barnes & Noble and now today I run across a CNN story/interview with the author. The book? “Lori Gottlieb’s Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. In the CNN interview Gottlieb says:
There’s a survey in the book where men and women are asked, “If you got 80 percent [...]

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Feb

Friday Morning Video – ThyPhone

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Just For Fun, Video

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Feb

Around the Horn – 2.25.10

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

Google’s Orwell Moment
From Newsweek: Google recently introduced a new service that adds social-networking features to its popular Gmail system. The service is called Buzz, and within hours of its release, people were howling about privacy issues—because, in its original form, Buzz showed everyone the list of people you e-mail most frequently. Even people who weren’t [...]

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Feb

Faith in the Workplace

Posted by Steve Published in Alpha, Culture, Empowered Living, Leadership, Theology, Video, _samp

Have you ever wanted to be a more effective witness for Christ in the workplace? Nearly 250 people in Charleston came to St. Andrew’s today for Alpha USA’s Workplace Faith Gathering to explore the topic and to be equipped. This is Alpha’s kick-off event for a 14-city tour of much larger cities. Participants heard from [...]

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Feb

Calvin Quotes

Posted by Steve Published in Theology, _samp

I’m teaching tonight at St. Paul’s Theological Center on John Calvin. I’ve had fun preparing for the talk. Here are some great quotes I’ve come across:
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which [...]

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Feb

Our Anglican Indebtedness to John Calvin

Posted by Steve Published in History, TEC/General Convention, Theology

Gerald Bray’s recent editorial in the Churchman regarding the formative influence of Calvin upon Anglicanism:
The precise shape of that Protestantism however owes more to John Calvin than it does to Henry VIII, who never really broke with the traditional Catholicism of his youth. Calvin never visited England, but he corresponded with people there and welcomed [...]

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Feb

From Our Mission Team in Liberia

Posted by Steve Published in Mission, St. Andrew's, _samp

Just received this email from Sam Clawson updating us on the work our mission team is doing in Liberia. The trip has gone well and the reports have been encouraging.
This is from Sam, since Sonny would not write about his program today. Sonny did a teaching on starting Alpha in this part of Liberia. Approximately [...]

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Feb

Friday Morning Video – Todd & Daron

Posted by Steve Published in Mission, Relationships, TEC/General Convention, Video, _samp

Last week Todd Simonis and Daron Taylor went to NYC for a visit to 815 (no kidding) and due to the snowstorm their one day trip ended up being a four day trip. Here’s a video highlight of their time:

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Feb

Around The Horn – 2.18.10

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

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How Good Do You Have It?
Hawaii’s residents had the highest well-being in the nation in 2009, pulling ahead of 2008 leader Utah, and coming in with a new high state Well-Being Index score of 70.2. Utah and Montana are also among the top well-being states in the [...]

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Feb

Graham Tomlin on Luther (video)

Posted by Steve Published in Scripture, Theology, Video, _samp

Last night we had The Rev’d Dr. Graham Tomlin with us at St. Paul’s Theological Center. Graham led a conference introducing the St. Paul’s Course to church leaders throughout the SE USA region and then stayed on to lecture on Martin Luther in our “Great Theologians” course. Here’s a brief clip from his intro:

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