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  • What Can The Blockchain Do For You? — Hackaday

    Imagine you’re a general, camped outside a fortified city with your army. Your army isn’t strong enough to take the city without help. But you do have help: camped on other hills outside this city are a half dozen more generals, with their armies ready to attack. Attacking one army at a time will fail;… via…

  • The Ontological Argument — Perfect Chaos

    Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post. Today I’ll be offering a snapshot of the life and thought of Saint Anselm, who was an important philosophical theologian of the Medieval period, and produced an interesting argument for the existence of God. via The Ontological Argument — Perfect Chaos

  • Why Founders Need a Moral Compass — Steve Blank

    I’ve been thinking why the ethical boundaries of todays founder/VC interactions feel so different then they did when I was an entrepreneur. I’ve written about the root causes in an HBR article here and an expanded version here. Worth a read. Stanford eCorner captured a few minutes of what I’ve been thinking in the video…

  • Reformation Sunday Resources

    pastordawn BEYOND CHURCH Preparing for Reformation Sunday? Some of these posts might be useful: Echoing the Divine Plea: “I Lay Before You Life and Death. Choose Life!” What if we won’t ever really understand Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection until we understand that God is dead? Enough with “A Mighty Fortress” Already! Sing a New Song!…

  • Congregational Patterns are the Key for ERP

    Congregational Patterns are the Key for ERP

    Churches and middle governing bodies need to think of technology in the context of  “Enterprise Resource Planning” or better known as ERP. Once cost prohibitive for most churches and even some governing bodies, the technology landscape today is prime. With the advent of cloud-based technology, along with the emerging tools of the fourth industrial revolution,…

  • Understanding Genesis 6-8: The Story of Noah’s Flood (And its Similarities and Differences with Gilgamesh) — resurrecting orthodoxy

    Compared to everyone else in Genesis 1-11, Noah gets the most ink by far. The story of Noah’s flood goes from Genesis 6:5 to the end of chapter 8. And then, Noah even gets another chapter after the flood is over, in Genesis 9. Now, the interesting thing about the story of Noah and the… via…

  • Loving the Unseen God — Help Me Believe

    My friend, Lisa Quintana, writes a great piece on loving a God that we cannot physically see. Along the way, she provides some insightful details from Church History and shares a bit of her personal testimony. “Loving the Unseen God” Lisa Quintana via Loving the Unseen God — Help Me Believe

  • THE e-CHURCH MODEL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: A call for re-discipleship

    The church is a community of the Spirit giving witness of the Trinity to an alternative and hopeful future of a community of disciples. We must realize we live in the midst of profound social and cultural change driven by the fourth industrial revolution of digital technology and globalization. Churches of all types and denominations…

  • Does your church have a distance problem?

    Physical distance is as much an issue for churches as it is for business. Think of “Extended Reality” (XR) and the role it could have in your church, your missional activities and creating discipleship. If you think about all the ways, we connect with our congregations, and when you look at the core, it is…

  • Why is St. Isidore of Seville patron saint of the internet?

    Isidore may seem like a strange choice, but his academic works make him a perfect fit.It may seem strange that a 7th-century saint was chosen as the patron saint of the internet, but after a careful examination of his life, St. Isidore of Seville turns out to be the perfect choice. Isidore (not to be…