Entries Tagged as 'The World'
Learning Language and why the french wont speak english to you
June 3rd, 2008 · 12 Comments
Here’s a post I found interesting from Trevin Wax who worked/s as a missionary in Romania about his journey of learning romanian."So, one day, I decided not to speak in English anymore to anyone.
The only time I would use English was when I did not know how to say
what I needed to say in Romanian. In [...]
Tags: Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · The World · travel
Stories from ground zero: South Africa Xenophobic attacks
June 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Floyd and Sally McClung share stories from what is happening on the ground in south africa here.“There was Alvin from Angola, whose brother was killed on Friday, and who was so traumatized by the guilt of leaving the body to save himself, he could barely speak. There was Maria (not her real name) from the [...]
Africa doesn’t need foreign aid
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
"…between 1980 and 1988 the US government pumped
$83 billion dollars of foreign aid into Sub-Saharan Africa. $83 billion
dollars! During that same period of time living standards dropped and
infant mortality rose. Once again, we learn that foregin aid does not
disciple the hearts and minds of people. God uses people to disciple
people.
After forty years of traveling all [...]
Tags: The World · Theology Thoughts · travel
Mid Week Round Up
April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Plenty of News and good blogging going right now, these are in no particular order there is tech, apple, theology and everything else crammed in:The mighty design software company adobe has released a beta version of free web based software called Photoshop Express. It has some great tools for retouching and free storage. Best of [...]
Tags: Apple · Blogging · Christian Living · Church · Entertainment · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · Music · Technology · The World · Theology Thoughts · Web 2.0 · Worship
The Conversion of Gorbachev
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
UPDATE: CT Reports Gorbachev openly denies faith and confirms his atheism while the Russian Orthodox Church says "In Italy, he spoke in emotional terms, rather than in terms of
faith," a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox patriarch Alexei II told
the Russian media.
"He is still on his way to Christianity. If he arrives, we will welcome him."
[...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World · Theology Thoughts · politics
Yuri’s Night
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Even though our western post-cold war history still recalls the moon landing as a greatest space triumph, one russian fellow was the first to "boldly go where no one had gone before!" Yuru Gagurin, and now there is a worldwide organisation which upholds this history in a day of remembering the first human to ever [...]
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Oliver Foot well remembered
February 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Thanks to those of you who left comments saying that you were praying last week, Ive really appreciated it. I wanted to post something about my friend Oliver who died last week, something I was not expecting and left me shocked and sad. I have been overwhelmed in many ways at the breadth of his [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Miscellaneous · My Life · The World
Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day/Mardi Gras?
February 5th, 2008 · No Comments
I have a lasting memory that while I was growing up we would always cook pancakes today, as is the tradition in the UK, and so in memory of that and to locate ourselves a little more on where we are in the liturgical calendar I thought a little wiki info on the day might [...]
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End of Week round up
January 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I have a few posts in the mix but this is me signing off again for the weekend, leaving you with a few commended perusable articles:1) For those of you on the look out for worship music stuff here, mercy me have started a blog, and Im glad to see there not taking themselves too [...]
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Trusting God while Scots Fish in Western Sahara
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments
I was surprised whilst having "post-exam-quiet-night-in with rachel and television" to see one of the vessels from the western isles (Barra) who has done a little work for us in the past on the TV in the western sahara! It was on the gaelic speaking program Eorpa which you can conveniently view on the bbc’s [...]
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