Just got word from a local crisis pregnancy center that yesterday’s May snow storm stopped a girl from going to her scheduled abortion. Instead, she came into the clinic. She thought she was just a few weeks along in her pregnancy, but at the clinic learned that she was r

One hundred years after Roland Allen’s immensely popular book Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? was published, Robert Plummer and John Mark Terry revisit the insights of Allen from a modern perspective in their Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. T

Brandon Hatmaker in Barefoot Church shares his church’s values and his experience in serving an urban community. Hatmaker stays in the radical middle between the “missional” and “attractional” constructs of church. He is not attempting to promote one or the other, but simultaneously b

This is a spoof, but pretty close to reality!

Took a spin through the first few chapters of Revelation today. Often we focus on each church’s commendations and rebukes, but today I noticed a repeated pattern in all seven letters… I know your… this pattern reveals what Jesus notices in churches. Take a look: In E

Today we commissioned four staff families and others to move to Cedar Falls to start a church in the fall. Here is more information, introduction of staff, and key dates. Below is the map of our current churches in our church planting network and plans. Blue pins are existing churches

The era of modern societies makes up only a tiny fraction of human history. To understand how humans interacted for most of history it is essential to understand traditional societies. In the last century some of the last traditional societies that have been untouched by modern societ

peoplemovin: migration flows across the world On the site, you can select any country to see which countries people emigrate from or immigrate to. Immigration to the USA is below, the lines are linked to the countries where the people come from. This may give you some ideas for your c

This book greatly upgraded my reading experience. It includes a guide for various types of literature and various levels of reading, e.g. elementary, inspectional, analytical, and synoptical. I highly recommend it, you’ll wish you’d read it many books ago.

Restoring America One County at a Time was a fun read. I was expecting some tactical manual for political action at the county level, but McDurmon’s book was much more than that. He has much to say on taxation, education, currency, markets, national defense, and more. McDurmon e

Nones have become the new state established religion. An uptick in the number of Americans who answer surveys on religious affiliation and answer “none” has grown over the last few years, but their influence in the media outweighs their numbers. According to PewForum, R

  One of the stresses of travel is packing. The hard part isn’t packing the bags, it is creating the list of things to pack so that you don’t forget anything. This handy tool allows you to enter the details of your trip, press a button, and out comes a detailed to do

Click on the map or here go to interactive map with information for each country at Freedomhouse.org Muslim-majority societies formed 12 of the 20 ‘unfree’ ones surveyed, and of the seven territories receiving the lowest possible score, four were Muslim.   See the full report 

I have some friends that just returned from teaching English abroad. They didn’t raise financial support from their friends, they used the time to make enough money to pay off their student loans! Teaching English is a great way to test your aptitude for overseas living, improve

  Click on map to zoom in to your location. See any surprises here? As you zoom in you see that transportation routes largely determine where people live.