the waiting country

Humility is the noble choice to forgo your status, deploy your resources or use your influence for the good of others before yourself. More ...

Modesty probably prevents you from listing 'outstanding achievement' as an ambition but this article by Jocelyn Glei has some helpf...

From an interesting article over at the 99% , here are the 5 takeaways: 1. Satisficers or maximisers?   Gathering additional information alw...

Actually, the title of the article is Making your presentations worth the cost but it has a lot of helpful advice for preachers - none of ...

Another article in today's Guardian ruminates on Why Britain Should Think About Doing Things The German Way , highlighting the decline ...

Over at The Guardian , Gail Rebuck has written about humans being hardwired to read books. She makes the point that technology has shown t...

One of my aims for today is to make sure that: - my inbox is empty (it usually ends most days that way, so not such a big one) - my google r...

Here's some of the 99p bargains I picked-up this week (the sale is ongoing as we speak): Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Armitage) One ...

My brother Robert lives there..... Harbin Ice & Snow Festival

"Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas" says Yves Behar in this interesting video over at the 99%. Seems to be esse...

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  He came to that which was his own, but his...

Peter Leithart is always a stimulating writer and his latest offering, Word Made Martyr , is no less so. In addition to a cleverly instruct...

This looks like a great book - and not too long at 180 pages (a not insubstantial point). Here's the author, J. Todd Billings, talking...

Tim Keller's talk at Google:

This is a really helpful discussion:

Mark Roberts has been writing a series on pastoring. In his latest piece , he concludes a discussion of how Paul and his companions pastore...

Six years ago today the man without side died; the man of ease and play slipped away; the man of unknown space and story untold, left his ma...