There is a guy named Lewis Pugh who is the first person to complete a long-distance swim (19 minutes at minus 2 degrees Celsius) in the North Pole. He did it to highlight the fact that it was possible to swim for a kilometer in a place that should be solid ice.
Pugh, a former maritime [...]
Some of you know that I am a fan of CNN’s Young People Who Rock blog. Usually, Nicole Lapin finds some really great stories of people under the age of 30 doing some remarkable things. A couple of weeks ago, Lapin made us all aware of Sean Forbes, a deaf musician who founded a non-profit [...]
Do you know that laughter can add +8 years to your life (according to an AIG ad I read in Newsweek)? If that is true, we all need to stop taking ourselves so seriously and laugh it up a bit more…
Anyway, here is a joke in the AIG ad (pg. 67 of Newsweek pictured [...]
I am so excited to share with you the following news…!
Press Release
Thursday, September 20, 2007—For Immediate Release
Sonlife Ministries Merging with YouthFront
Sonlife Ministries, Inc. has merged with YouthFront, Inc. effective September 1, 2007 in order to “maximize ministry effectiveness” of the two organizations. Formerly a Chicago-based ministry, Sonlife will relocate to Kansas City.
For more than six [...]
I just finished reading the book, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. Tic Long introduced me to the book a week or so ago. I hadn’t even heard about it until he mentioned it.
The author, Lauren Sandler, is a brilliant author. Sandler is the Life Editor for Salon and she has [...]
Last Friday night I was watching the NBC Nightly News with my friend Jim Newberry. At the end of the program they did a short but very rich story on a guy named Bill Austin. Bill has given out more than 200,000 hearing aids to people all over the world… He seems like [...]
There is an interesting article at CNN.com today about people who are choosing to give up their Facebook and Myspace addictions for Lent — sort of a 21st century way of observing the practice.
I think it is a great way to participate in the practice. I think it could really help those of us [...]
Check out G-man’s top 20 youth worker blog sites you need to know list… I must say I follow a fair number of these myself. Thanks for the list G-man, and thanks for including me!
Chris
I have a friend named Tim who teaches at a high school near Toronto. He alerted me to this article (Teachers Spend Out of Pocket Average of $593) for some research that we are doing. It got me thinking that it might be very interesting to see what the annual out of pocket [...]
I’m in Orlando today connecting with a potential employee for Sonlife. For some reason the hotel I am staying in had delivered to them the Sunday edition of the Orlando Sentinel today (Monday)! Somebody made a mistake somewhere down the line…
It actually ended up being cool. I found an article on brain-based [...]