Results containing Valid ACCESS-DEF Exam Pass4sure 🍤 ACCESS-DEF Passleader Review 🍱 New ACCESS-DEF Test Vce Free 👊 Open “ www.pdfvce.com ” enter ▶ ACCESS-DEF ◀ and obtain a free download 🔉Test ACCESS-DEF Sample Online

Featured image for “Christian Discipleship: Commodity or Community?”
February 18, 2020
 / 
Essays

Christian Discipleship: Commodity or Community?

by Ben Rowe
…nd grief. Maybe the loudest and most powerful thing we can do is close the www.benrowe.com’s of Christian industry and go next door to introduce someone to the actual URL. Maybe the loudest and most powerful thing we can do is live the message in word and deed with no concern for how big our audience is. Marshall McLuhan, a media theorist and devout Catholic, said, “In Jesus Christ there is no distance or separation between the medium and the mess…
Read More
Featured image for “Directed Attention: Finding Flow (Part 1/2)”
November 8, 2022
 / 
Essays

Directed Attention: Finding Flow (Part 1/2)

by Dawn Berkelaar
…To start with, we can practise controlling attention (a key skill when it comes to flow), for example by setting boundaries around phones and devices that are designed to distract.  This essay is part one of two; in the next, I will share about several situations in which the concept of flow is particularly relevant. In the meantime, I wonder: Have you experienced the flow state? Under what circumstances?  Flow, p. xi  â†©  Flow, p. 40  â†© pronounce…
Read More
Featured image for “Animosity and Anonymous Critique”
September 3, 2019
 / 
Essays

Animosity and Anonymous Critique

by Kathryn Post
…it quickly became irrelevant, plummeting to 264,000 users by 2017 before becoming defunct. Unfortunately, recent app developers failed to learn from Yik Yak’s early demise. Yolo is a new app that allows users to anonymously send comments, questions, and pictures in response to other users’ Snapchat stories. USA Today reported the app has been downloaded over 5 million times since its release in early May, and according to BBC, Yolo was the most-do…
Read More
August 7, 2014
 / 

How to write, publish, and share effectively online

by
Some Good Ideas: A Scientific Guide to Posting Tweets, Facebook Posts, Emails, and Blog Posts at the Best Time A Scientific Guide to Writing Great Headlines on Twitter, Facebook, and Your Blog The Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Post: The Data on Headlines, Length, Images and More Subject Line: Choose Your Words Wisely The Ideal Length of Everything Make your writing bold and clear with Hemingway Voice & Tone Buffer’s 9 best social media tips to boost…
Read More
Featured image for “Top Webpages to Follow in 2015”
January 9, 2015
 / 
Spotlights

Top Webpages to Follow in 2015

by Liz Moss
…typing as it relates to work styles, leadership transition, psychological testing, setting up a church-based counseling center, and more. Patheos: Hosting the Conversation on Faith Patheos is the premier online destination to “engage in the global dialogue about religion and spirituality and to explore and experience the world’s beliefs.” Patheos is the website of choice for the millions of people looking for credible and balanced information abo…
Read More
Featured image for “Scrolling Alone”
July 12, 2018
 / 
Essays

Scrolling Alone

by Abby Foreman
…ho can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again” (The Message, Isaiah 58:9-12 ). These descriptive labels—fixers, restorers, rebuilders, renovators—provide a clear image of the work that we should be committed to in our communities.   https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/facebook-social-wealth.html  â†© Ibid.  â†© Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon &…
Read More
Featured image for “Topics Christians Should Discuss: Mass Incarceration (Part 2)”
January 25, 2023
 / 
Essays

Topics Christians Should Discuss: Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

by Joya Schreurs
…ice absence, but rather “accountable and effective policing.”7 Financially accessible legal aid for defendants is also in short supply, with 80% of defendants too poor to seek sound counsel.8 Such lacks make countless vulnerable to coercion, leading many to plead guilty to inaccurate charges for fear of receiving a longer sentence. Christians must champion policies that ensure defendants are informed of all accompanying effects of felony convictio…
Read More
Featured image for “Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Ecological Lament”
July 7, 2020
 / 
Essays

Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Ecological Lament

by Chloe Hansum
…sures.” Wiley Online Library, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 8 Feb. 2018, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14043.  â†© Gleddiesmith, Stacey. “Identifying with Christ: Why We’re Called to Lament or Our Suffering World.” Reformed Worship, Worship Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church, Dec. 2010, https://www.reformedworship.org/article/december- 2010/identifying-christ.  â†© From the traditional hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful by C…
Read More
Featured image for “Why Should Christians Care About Bitcoin?”
May 5, 2022
 / 
Essays

Why Should Christians Care About Bitcoin?

by Jesse Veenstra
…ave no safeguards against being scammed or taken advantage of, you would become suspicious of online transactions. The growing distrust impacts all merchants, not just the bad apples, and reduces willingness to transact virtually. Wasteful use of capital Critics often cite the high energy costs of mining Bitcoin and the PoW (Proof of Work protocol of the Blockchain). News headlines claim Bitcoin’s annual energy consumption equals that of Switzerla…
Read More
Featured image for “A Campfire (Laptop) Story: Doing Technology”
June 8, 2022
 / 
Essays

A Campfire (Laptop) Story: Doing Technology

by Justin Vander Werff
…or provide fuel for a fire.4 So, does the weirdness of the campfire/laptop combination come because both were designed for two very different purposes? Perhaps. Another reason for the perceived disconnect might be cultural appropriateness. Responsible Technology proposed design norms that the Christian should consider in developing technology.5 These norms recognize the humanness of doing technology and go beyond simply the math or physics related…
Read More
Featured image for “Bridging the Generational Divide”
June 2, 2020
 / 
Essays

Bridging the Generational Divide

by Chandra Crane
…andrewjosuweit/2017/10/22/5-industries-millennials-are-killing-and-why/#104a96ed44e4  â†© https://time.com/5719674/ok-boomer-new-zealand/  â†© https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/asia/new-zealand-ok-boomer-trnd/index.html  â†©…
Read More
Featured image for “Unsung Holidays: May Day”
May 1, 2023
 / 
Culture

Unsung Holidays: May Day

by April Fiet
…he world, but it wouldn’t hurt for us to try. This Unsung Holiday celebrates the tradition of sharing May Baskets on May 1, not the Worker’s Day connected to labor movements also called May Day.  â†© https://twitter.com/aprilfiet/status/1641806951146242048  â†©  https://www.almanac.com/content/what-may-day  â†©  https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/04/30/402817821/a-forgotten-tradition-may-basket-day  â†©  https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports…
Read More
Featured image for “Liberia: One Year Later”
June 3, 2015
 / 
Essays

Liberia: One Year Later

by Aaron Baart
…pastors ran into the heart of darkness and picked up the children who had entered Ebola treatment centers as part of families only to emerge days later as orphans. They planted fields and planted churches. They harvested rice and spoke of even greater crops to come. They dreamed Pentecost-sized dreams. Hope that is found in Christ Jesus is still the most transforming power the world has ever known. It stares into death’s face and proclaims a more…
Read More
Featured image for “An Introduction to Christian Meditation”
May 8, 2017
 / 
Essays

An Introduction to Christian Meditation

by Jackie Smallbones
…be regular practice. The children’s chorus still rings true: Read your Bible, pray every day and you’ll grow, grow, grow. Dig Deeper For more detail on engaging Scripture in meaningful ways, read Jackie Smallbones’ book, Live the Story not the Dream (available through lulu.com or amazon.com) and visit her website, Storymakerlife.com. Bianchi, Enzo, tr. by Christine Landau. Echoes of the Word. (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2013.) 60. â†© Peterson,…
Read More
Featured image for “2019 Top Articles”
December 31, 2019
 / 
Essays

2019 Top Articles

by
…s from this past year? And, what topics would you like iAt to explore this coming year? Comment with your thoughts and ideas. Making Nothing of Evil, and Everything of God: A Review of That All Shall Be Saved, Part 1 & Part 2 by Myles Werntz “When David Bentley Hart burst on the scene in 2004 with The Beauty of the Infinite, two things became immediately clear: this was a scholar who was erudite as he was pugnacious… Simultaneously wide-sweeping a…
Read More
Featured image for “Carrying the Cross of Gender Dysphoria”
January 31, 2018
 / 
Essays

Carrying the Cross of Gender Dysphoria

by Mark Yarhouse
…at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 3, 1994. Retrieved from https://www.ewtn.com/library/issues/prbkmter.txt Pinckaers, Servais O.P., Morality: The Catholic View. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2001. Mark A. Yarhouse, Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Mark A. Yarhouse & Dara Houp, D., Transgender Christians: “Gender identity, family relat…
Read More
Featured image for “Podcast: RESOURCING- Feature Conversation: Josh Reeves”
February 23, 2022
 / 
Podcast

Podcast: RESOURCING- Feature Conversation: Josh Reeves

by Justin Ariel Bailey, Jeff Ploegstra
…ntists-arent-hostile-alien-priests-a-review-of-redeeming-expertise/ Follow Dr. Reeves: https://twitter.com/joshareeves Buy the book: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481316156/redeeming-expertise/  …
Read More
Featured image for “Podcast: REPENTING and Renewing with Esau McCaulley”
November 16, 2022
 / 
Podcast

Podcast: REPENTING and Renewing with Esau McCaulley

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…e liturgical season of Lent might mean for the disinherited Get Dr. McCaulley’s new book: https://www.ivpress.com/lent-fts More about Dr. McCaulley: https://esaumccaulley.com/ Read my review of Reading While Black: https://inallthings.org/exercising-hope-a-review-of-reading-while-black/…
Read More
Featured image for “Part of a Balanced Breakfast: Three Steps to Restore Balance in our Digital World”
January 14, 2020
 / 
Essays

Part of a Balanced Breakfast: Three Steps to Restore Balance in our Digital World

by Mark Volkers
…se us a balanced breakfast, but they do promise us increased productivity, free entertainment, better communication, and lives enhanced in so many ways that it’s almost breathtaking. A quick Google search for new apps brings up names like: 1Gallery, bethere, Cometin, EdLock, Disney+, Muscle Booster, LumaFusion, BabySitMe, Farming Simulator, and the list goes on and on and on. This article is not an attempt to bash technology or advocate that we al…
Read More
Featured image for “The Gift of Rest”
March 24, 2016
 / 
Essays

The Gift of Rest

by Aaron Baart
…rtain sports. Particular chores. You just never really knew for sure. As I entered into stages of life where I had the freedom to make all of my own decisions, I resolved internally and before the Lord that I wasn’t going to be legalistic like the church I grew up in. After all, in response to the way that the leaders of his time has judiciously parsed the fourth commandment out a little too specifically, Jesus himself reminded us that “the Sabbat…
Read More
Featured image for “Chattel and Prophets: African Americans in Presbyterian Church History”
May 19, 2017
 / 
Essays

Chattel and Prophets: African Americans in Presbyterian Church History

by Eric Michael Washington
…S) shook up the world in 1903-1904 when he provided evidence of atrocities committed by the Congo Free State against Africans.9 Upon returning to the United States, the Sheppards would have successful ministries at Grace Presbyterian Church in Louisville from 1912 until George’s death in 1927.10 Though her husband pastored Grace, Lucy Sheppard would choose to labor as a social worker in Louisville from 1918-1935. In her own right, Lucy Sheppard ha…
Read More
Featured image for “The Birds and the Bees”
July 2, 2015
 / 
Essays

The Birds and the Bees

by Erin Olson
…at they know and find out what they have questions about. Talking with your kids about sex and sexuality may feel completely unnatural and uncomfortable to you, but if we want our kids to come to us with their questions and concerns then we need to begin the open communication about this topic as soon as possible. In order to help our kids develop healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors, we need to get rid of the mask of secrecy around sex and let…
Read More
Featured image for “Come Hell or High Water? Scientific Progress and Ethics”
October 14, 2016
 / 
Essays

Come Hell or High Water? Scientific Progress and Ethics

by Travis Pickell
…tions for increasing anxiety, suffering, and anguish as people struggle to free themselves from the very technologies that were developed to save them.8 Consider also the idea, common in environmental studies, of a “progress trap,” which occurs when a society’s pursuit of progress “inadvertently introduce problems they do not have the resources or political will to solve, for fear of short-term losses in status, stability or quality of life.”9 Suc…
Read More
Featured image for “iAt Book Club: The Benedict Option”
April 12, 2017
 / 
Essays

iAt Book Club: The Benedict Option

by Robert Lancaster
…ight. However, I am not as convinced as Scott and Erin that “a champion of free enterprise like Dreher” would completely reject a sharing of all things in common. He might not embrace it to the extent the Bruderhof do, but it’s likely that he would be closer to it than many Western Christians who have wedded themselves to a materialistic culture. I will admit that Scott and Erin are probably more right than wrong about Dreher’s free market thought…
Read More
Featured image for “The Language of Arrival”
November 29, 2016
 / 
Culture

The Language of Arrival

by Josh Matthews
…n relations. Thankfully, Banks’ preference for the nuances of language and open-ended interpretation combat militaristic paranoia. This is perhaps the movie’s greatest hope. Arrival quotes liberally from the most influential of all SF movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But the surprise is that it also quotes, and even seems to prefer, a more recent rebuke to 2001: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011). At first, the alien ships resemble a m…
Read More
The blog.