Wednesday, August 3

Wednesday Notes

HANDS ON MAGAZINE -- A group of socially minded North Park University students have been producing an online magazine "designed to educate, motivate, and empower our generation to be advocates for social action." It's really well done and worth a look.

EVEN THOUGH NOTEBOOKS are currently driving the computer market, there is evidence that suggests an emerging trend of replace notebooks with smartphones, Blackberries, and other hand-held computing devices. Link

BOTH CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM are growing at phenominal rates. There are now more worldwide adherents of these traditional religions than at any time in history. Yet, the world is also growing more secular at the same time. Gregory Melleuish from the University of Wollongong has a stimulating article on the unique tensions and paradoxes that are emerging in this context.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA all over the place is waking up to the fact that Christians now outnumber Communists in China. This isn't really new news. Link

BRADLEY BERGFALK posts on his two contrasting worship experiences in London. Link

2 comments:

lindaruth said...

HandsOn is very neat. I think I've met some of the kids who put it together -- they were friends of Megan's. Very cool.
Linda

Unknown said...

In reference to the computer story, does this mean that desktops are already retro?