Random

• Things are bone dry out here in the tropics and the National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for Guam. ~ Link

• Solar collecting roads heat buildings in the Netherlands. There has got to be a way to adapt this technology to generate electricity for places that don't ever heat buildings -- the millions of us living along the Equator. ~ Link

• Amen to Richard Mouw! -- "An Open-Handed Gospel" -- This is the kind of stuff that keeps me excited about Fuller Seminary and its evangelical voice. ~ CT Link

• The Open Theology crew is having a big confab at APU, April 10-12 -- "Open and Relational Theology Engaging Science." I'm not an proponent of Open Theology but this conference looks fascinating and if I were living in SoCal I'd go for it. ~ Link

• Hawaii State Senator Kalani English sees tremendous progress in dealing with Micronesia area migration to Hawaii and other US states after many years of neglect. ~ Link

Islanders from the Marshall Islands, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia have visa-free entry to the United States. With economic conditions worsening in the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia, an estimated 2,500 are migrating annually to the US. Researchers estimate that close to 30% of the 70,000 Marshall Islanders and 25% of the 107,000 Micronesians now live in the US.