Random

• Bushman World Ukulele Video Contest winner ~ link

• Cory Doctorow on "Writing in the Age of Distraction" -- probably not what you'd expect a novelist to say. ~ link

• Mother's Cookies have been saved, signaling a major economic turn-around in the US (or at least that's my interpretation of it.) Happy days are here again. ~ link (thx)

• Minnesota's governor's goal -- by 2015, students in the state-run colleges would earn 25% of their credits online. ~ link

• Rust-belt fixer-uppers going for $1,000 or under. ~ link

• Fr Richard John Neuhaus died yesterday. Great mind, faithful servant. ~ link

• Quotable:

Servanthood is an apt metaphor for leadership, but like many such terms, "servant leader" has become too familiar. It's lost its power to arrest our notice and become mostly buzz.

I propose an alternative: host. Jesus was playing host when he acted as servant to his followers and bathed their tired, dirtied feet. "Host" is actually fuller and better than "servant" as an expression of what the foot washer had to teach the leaders of his day, as the word connotes both leadership and service. ~ Barbara K. Olson

• Indiana Wesleyan University has been given permission to offer the Master of Divinity degree. Interesting set-up. ~ link

• CHET is going to offer its first online course in Biblical theology -- Spanish required ~ link