Avian Einsteins
You may already know of my interest in crows, jays, and other intelligent bird species. (If not, you can catch up by reading previous blog posts.) Today I want to share with you another interesting study that suggests that crows have the ability to teach other crows to avoid dangerous human individuals. Researchers at the University…
Continue readingFilling Our Lives
As we approach the most commercialized, consumerist, season of the year, it is appropriate to pause and consider our values once again. Let’s take a quick look at some of the messages given to us by the dominant culture at this time of year: buying things will make you happy if you buy one thing…
Continue readingDaring Greatly
I do not know much about Theodore Roosevelt but these words of his resonate with me. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in…
Continue readingChanging the World
I had tea with two friends who, when they were each 24 years old, read the book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (about five years ago for each of them). I commented that I had also read that book when I was about 24 years old (about seven years after it was published).…
Continue readingPiety and Science
One of the purposes of a blog of this nature is to point people to writers whom readers might otherwise miss. I have previously noted an article entitled, “Why Conservative Christian Piety Should Animate Evangelical Engagement with Science’s Sticky Subjects.” Today, I want to highlight a few of the main points within this article. The…
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