The New Legalism: Missional, Radical, Narcissistic, and Shamed | Acton PowerBlog

I sincerely apologize to everyone for being legalistic in this regard over the last few years. Thankfully, by the Lord’s grace, I have recently put the Kool-Aide down and have been re-thinking all this “radical” and “missional” teaching that is so prevalent right now, and looking to the Scriptures more carefully concerning this. And like a Berean (Acts 17:11) I would encourage you to do the same.

fastcompany: Cities across the country are making plans to cater to bikers and pedestrians (along with cars) as they design and manage their transportation infrastructure. These are 10 that are doing it really well: 1. Indianapolis, IN 2. Hermosa Beach, CA (tie) 2. Huntington Park, CA (tie) 4. Ocean Shores, WA 5. Northfield, MN 5 more great cities for bikers and pedestrians
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fastcompany:

Cities across the country are making plans to cater to bikers and pedestrians (along with cars) as they design and manage their transportation infrastructure. These are 10 that are doing it really well:

  • 1. Indianapolis, IN
  • 2. Hermosa Beach, CA (tie)
  • 2. Huntington Park, CA (tie)
  • 4. Ocean Shores, WA
  • 5. Northfield, MN

5 more great cities for bikers and pedestrians

fastcompany: Jerry Seinfeld On The Perfection Of The Coffee Meeting Seinfeld’s talks to us about his next act, the web series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, and why coffee is the perfect, er, vehicle for communication.  Coffee meetings are perfect, weird little things. Jerry Seinfeld, the Gandalf of little weird perfections, explains why five years ago they became a part of his working life: “I got married and I had a family and my entire day was not free for social interaction,” he tells NPR. “And eating is annoying and difficult to arrange, [and it’s] hard to choose places. And meeting someone for coffee suddenly seemed like a wonderful, compact, accessible and portable social interaction.” As we’ve discussed, shared meals and drinks connect people—which, in turn, avails everyone involved to greater opportunities. In this way, a lot of coffee—and a little kindness—can launch a career. As Seinfeld and NPR host Steve Inskeep discussed, coffee’s so great because it gives us something to with our hands: Seinfeld says that not having a cup to play with is like a comedian without a microphone—using a clip-on thing makes the audience feel uncomfortable. The coffee is a prop, giving you something to look at when you need to think, which is a key to communication, whether workplace or not. “It also obviously gets people talking,” Seinfeld says, “You have coffee and for some reason it makes you talk a lot.” The talking has an effect: As an MIT Media Lab study has found, teams that go on coffee breaks are more productive and have stronger social bonds, making it a stimulating—and low cost—management tool.  And whether you didn’t get enough sleep, you don’t know how to get through the afternoon, or you need a pause in conversation, Seinfeld observes that coffee’s that little help. “Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup,” he says. Read the full story here. [Image: Flickr user Aurimas]
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Jerry Seinfeld On The Perfection Of The Coffee Meeting

Seinfeld’s talks to us about his next act, the web series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, and why coffee is the perfect, er, vehicle for communication. 

Coffee meetings are perfect, weird little things. Jerry Seinfeld, the Gandalf of little weird perfections, explains why five years ago they became a part of his working life:

“I got married and I had a family and my entire day was not free for social interaction,” he tells NPR. “And eating is annoying and difficult to arrange, [and it’s] hard to choose places. And meeting someone for coffee suddenly seemed like a wonderful, compact, accessible and portable social interaction.”

As we’ve discussed, shared meals and drinks connect people—which, in turn, avails everyone involved to greater opportunities. In this way, a lot of coffee—and a little kindness—can launch a career.

As Seinfeld and NPR host Steve Inskeep discussed, coffee’s so great because it gives us something to with our hands: Seinfeld says that not having a cup to play with is like a comedian without a microphone—using a clip-on thing makes the audience feel uncomfortable. The coffee is a prop, giving you something to look at when you need to think, which is a key to communication, whether workplace or not.

“It also obviously gets people talking,” Seinfeld says, “You have coffee and for some reason it makes you talk a lot.”

The talking has an effect: As an MIT Media Lab study has found, teams that go on coffee breaks are more productive and have stronger social bonds, making it a stimulating—and low cost—management tool. 

And whether you didn’t get enough sleep, you don’t know how to get through the afternoon, or you need a pause in conversation, Seinfeld observes that coffee’s that little help.

“Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup,” he says.

Read the full story here.

[Image: Flickr user Aurimas]

Of Zombies and Resurrections | The Heidelblog

“In some ways, perhaps, zombies aren’t a terrible illustration of the effects of sin. People do sometimes go about like zombies, don’t they? They are dead but they are mobile. They are captive to appetites. We go about like zombies in other ways. Has any people been more medicated than this one? We’re a televised culture. People get a glazed appearance as they stare at their phones while they stumble through Best Buy.” – R. Scott Clark

‘Man of Steel’: Zack Snyder says Superman ‘must be taken seriously’

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Long before direc­tor Zack Sny­der began mak­ing “Man of Steel,” he’d heard a lit­tle piece of comic-book triv­ia that stuck with him: Super­man’s red-and-yellow S-shield is the second-most-recognized s …

“You still want him… to do the right thing. I think that we all hope for that in ourselves… He’s a Christlike figure. There’s no two ways about it.” http://flip.it/hO75y

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