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Sunday Seven

September 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

  1. How Google became Google. An interesting half-page summary of how Google really got rolling. From Wired.
  2. Notable deaths in Christendom. D. James Kennedy founded one of the early mega-churches and authored an influential curriculum for personal evangelism. Madeleine L’Engle wrote strange fantasy novels from a Christian perspective (we read A Wrinkle in Time in my public elementary school). From Christianity Today.
  3. Blogging hits the mainstream and more women blog than men.  Just check my links for confirmation. :)  From Tech.Blorge.com via Slashdot.
  4. Americans see Hillary and Rudy as the least religious candidates and Romney (a Mormon) as the most.  And most of us think that a president should hold strong religious beliefs.  Does it matter what they are?  From Yahoo! News via Relevant.
  5. Baseball’s most recent feel-good story falls apart. Rick Ankiel was a washout pitcher who came back this summer as a hard-hitting outfielder. How did he get so good? Human Growth Hormone, apparently. From Fox Sports.
  6. Fixing baseball umpires.  Chipper Jones compared MLB umps to the Little League guys (an insult to LL).  Is technology the answer?  Dayn Perry at Fox Sports thinks so.
  7. Alex Rodriguez has 516 homers, has homered in five straight games and has 52 for the year.  And he’s only 32.  He’ll catch Bonds and do it without steroids.  Until he gets caught, I mean.  From ESPN.

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  • 1 Marsha // Sep 11, 2007 at 8:36 am

    Madeliene L’Engle books were indeed strange. I really didn’t get a chance to read “A Wrinkle in Time” until I had kids of my own. I really liked it, but had no idea why because quite a bit of it confused me.
    I was used to Lewis and Tolkien I guess.

    But she said something in this interview that intrigued me.

    “I think we underestimate our pheromones, that is, our subconscious, intuitive sense of smell. In my relationship with my editor, for example, pheromones have to be right. Two editors can tell you exactly the same thing. One you’ll hear. The other you won’t. I think the same thing is true with preachers. Two preachers will say the same thing. One I’ll hear, the other I won’t. But, if we all had to hear everybody, what a cacophony there would be. In a sense, that also leads to our ways of approaching Christ. For me, my writing brings me to Christ.”

    I think she is right on! Must be the way you smell Dennis!!!! he,he

  • 2 Dennis Mullen // Sep 12, 2007 at 7:41 am

    Next time someone tells me I stink, I’ll take it as a compliment to my preaching. :)

  • 3 Mike Zukowski // Sep 18, 2007 at 8:57 am

    I started to skip over this link (L’Engle), glad I didn’t. Even with a degree in science, whatever intellect I have seems to go numb at the mention of time and space. Two things that stand out for me …”love is what we do” and “God does not need protection”. I think she felt as I do in regards as to why so many Christians feel threatened by science.

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