May, 2011

What does it mean to love your enemies?

May 12th, 2011

I missed writing for the series from my friend Rachel Held Evans that sought to restore unity, but followed it closely and saw some wonderful things.

Links for May 12th

Repenting of Christianity | Jesus Radicals

"But I cannot repent of Christianity without naming myself as a Christian. I am a Christian, I repent of Christianity. I will keep saying that for the rest of my life."

tags:

culture

spirituality

mark-van-steenwyk

Links for May 11th

Standing in the Rain in San Francisco

"I dream of the day when working people all over join hands and with peace and love in our hearts refuse to participate in a system that is so opposed to our own interests. I long for a mass movement of non-violent resistance dedicated to healthy communities, a healthy planet and an economic system based on the needs of creation, not the wants of materialism. These are the people and ideals that put President Obama in office and he seems to have forgotten. I don’t mind standing in the rain for these ideals."

tags:

activism

politics

Our Citizenship is in Heaven

"To be an 'enemy of the cross' is to reject the idea that self-sacrificial love, rather than redemptive violence, is the heart of reality."

tags:

peace

new-testament

bible

Bin Laden may be dead, but we are a country of revenge

May 5th, 2011

We all know that Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces the other day.

Links for May 3rd

Adactio: Journal—Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX

"We should be establishing a philosophy about how to treat people, in the same way that visual design is about establishing a philosophy about how make an impact. Visual design has principles to achieve that: contrast, emphasis, balance, proportion, rhythm, movement, texture, harmony and unity."

tags:

whitney-hess

user-experience

design

Adactio: Journal—Jared Spool: The Secret Lives of Links

"The content of the links tells the importance. Links secretly live to drive the user to their content."

tags:

jared-spool

user-experience

design

A List Apart: Articles: More Meaningful Typography

"By using culturally relevant, historically pleasing ratios to create modular scales and basing the measurements in our compositions on values from those scales, we can achieve a visual harmony not found in layouts that use arbitrary, conventional, or easily divisible numbers."

tags:

a-list-apart

layout

typography

css

design

Reclaiming the Mission » Excuses Seminarians make for NOT Getting A (“Real”) Job

"The only option for many is to lead a missionary venture into a place in need of the gospel. This sounds good right? The problem is that this approach demands (most of the time) that the church planter get a job and be bi-vocational."

tags:

ministry

church

Links for May 2nd

Font sizing with rem – Snook.ca

I hadn't seen this technique yet, but in CSS3 there is a third method for sizing text, and it offers a way beyond some of the shortcomings of pixel- and em-based font sizing. Plus, it even has good browser support.

tags:

accessibility

typograpy

css

css3