Painfully Hopeful

Hello Draft

When I first picked up my Nexus 7, one of my biggest concerns was the lack of a decent markdown editor. Editors either didn’t have robust enough dropbox support, had odd quirks with the HTML rendering, or didn’t allow me to easily export the raw HTML for use as blog posts. A short while after…

Don’t comment angry

I recently read a Huffington Post Article asking the question, “What if kids don’t want our church?” It likened church structures (both organizational and physical) to “family heirlooms” which may have been treasured for generations but no longer fit the goals and lifestyles of the current generation. There’s a lot I agree with in the…

Training Revolution

The buzz was running among Geeks this week Teens are bored with FaceBook. I’ve been saying for a while that the kids who grow up in the era of persistent-connectivity are going to naturally find boundaries with these tools. They don’t want to be overwhelmed with social networks, that’s what texting is for. The growing…

Textbook pain

My son is visually impaired. It doesn’t slow him down all that much, but it does make school more difficult than it would be for him if he had better vision. Several years ago we got him an iPad so he’d be able to read – it’s been amazing for him. The iPad has become…

Trained Up

Two years ago, the folks who make Accordance graciously accepted an invite to come Central Baptist and offer a training seminar for the folks in South Jersey (and beyond). Just over a month ago, I got an email from those same folks saying they were going to be in a nearby seminary, and wondered if…

Children, Children

Sometimes you just have to give people some perspective. For the record, I enjoy all three – but the title of “Greatest Science-Fiction Franchise” really shouldn't be in doubt. The original TARDIS image is by Elliott Brown. Posted with Blogsy