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A Psalms Word Cloud

Word clouds are a clever way to show the relative importance of a collection of topics by representing the frequency of occurrence of a topic through the font size. The cloud below was made using wordle.net and contains a collection … Continue reading

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Books you will not find on a Kindle

This is not a diatribe against e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle is the #1 bestseller on Amazon, for reasons that are not all bad. But technology comes with a downside. The advantages of technology are shouted at … Continue reading

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Turning grace into sensuality

Jude said it. Jude who thought his brother Jesus was out of his mind, but apparently had a change of mind and heart after His death and resurrection. Jude wanted to talk about the gospel, “our common salvation” (v. 3). … Continue reading

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Thinking Inside the Box

Here’s an old riddle I heard at a party recently: “A family of four needs to cross a bridge. Only one or two can cross at a time. They must share one flashlight which must be brought back after each … Continue reading

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More watts than a blue whale

Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired and an author of several books. I don’t know much about him, but he is keynote speaker at a conference I am considering attending, so I started poking around. I found this … Continue reading

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In the beginning

I started blogging years ago and shut it down because of spam. Now I am older and maybe wiser and needing to explain technology to other people, so I am starting it back up again. Not sure about the wiser … Continue reading

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