Here are some reads I found really interesting and wanted to share them with you:
1. An Intrinsic Interest in God by Brenna Phillips. People have an intrinsic interest guiding their quest for knowledge. I began to think specifically as a children’s minister and how to apply that to a child’s intrinsic interest in understanding God and faith.
2. Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist - But Not for Long at Scientific American Mind. To investigate whether someone like Bruce Wayne could physically transform himself into a one-man wrecking crew, ScientificAmerican.com turned to E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do. Zehr’s book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero (The Johns Hopkins University Press), due out in October, tackles that very question.
3. Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter at Scientific American Mind. During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems.
4. The Mr. Spock Guide to Effective Blogging by Copyblogger. When the author sat down to write about the need for rational, logical planning for your blog, he found no better model. Sure, blogs are personal, emotional constructions. But if your blog isn’t performing the way you want it to, try using a little Vulcan logic to move it in the right direction.
5. Networked structures: Liquid v. Solid church by Alan Hirsch. If Apostolic Genius expresses itself in a movement ethos, it forms itself around a network structure. And once again this tends to be very different to what we have come to expect from our general concept of church.
6. Paris Hilton mocking and ad by John McCain at Fox News. This is a real funny story and a funny video (at the bottom of the article. Attention…Paris in a bathing suit.
