daily links

Links for December 21st

24 ways: Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors

Great post on cleaning up code with CSS selectors. It examines various techniques, the browser support that each one has, and potential ways to get around browser gaps.

tags:: css3; css

Links for December 20th

Shane Claiborne – Letter to Non-Believers by Shane Claibourne – Esquire

In Esquire Magazine: "To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession…"

tags:: jesus; shane-claiborne

Links for December 17th

Reflections on the President's Oslo speech, Part 1 – Brian McLaren

Brian McLaren reflects on Obama's speech in Oslo. Powerful words.

tags:: peace; peace-activism; activism; politics; obama; brian-mclaren

Obama’s Nobel Speech: What If? – Jarrod McKenna – God's Politics Blog

An imagining of what might have happened in Obama's Oslo speech – if he had not written off nonviolence as a means to peace. What if?

tags:: activism; peace-activism; peace; politics; obama

Emerging Women » Blog Archive » To Be Free From Violence

Powerful thoughts on images of women, and pursuit of gender equality.

tags:: culture; gender

Links for December 16th

Advent Conspiracy Church Group Fights Christmas Shopping – TIME

"Christians get all bent out of shape over the fact that someone didn't say 'Merry Christmas' when I walked into the store. But why are we expecting the store to tell our story? That's just ridiculous."

tags:: activism; advent; advent-conspiracy

Reclaiming the Mission » Why is the Emergent/Missional Church So White?: Soon-Chan Rah’s Next Evangelicalism and Why It Doesn’t Go Far Enough (in Exposing White Western Cultural Captivity)

A review of Soong-Chan Rah's book The Next Evangelicalism examines the possibility that the book does not go far enough.

tags:: church; emerging; emergent; race

Links for December 14th

24 ways: Incite A Riot

The HTML5 spec has changed the meaning of the cite tag, but it's wrong. Jeremy reminds us that if we don't implement part of the spec, it becomes fiction. Ensure that bad advice becomes fiction.

tags:: html5; html

Links for December 13th

charity: water | project map

Use Google Earth with the link on this page to view wells and images of charity:water projects. Great way to really see what is going on.

tags:: poverty; water; activism

Links for December 11th

Advent Reflection: Salvation Came From The Cut « Musings of a Postmodern Negro

This beautiful Advent reflection from 2008 shook me last year, and reading it again reminded me that it should be here.

tags:: jesus; advent

Bottled Water Madness | Missio Dei

If you ever drink bottled water, or ever think about drinking it, you should read this. The more people understand this, the better.

tags:: environment; water

Art in my coffee!

Beautiful redesign of Art in my coffee, a gallery of latte art from around the world.

tags:: coffee; design; inspiration

Links for December 9th

the Jesus Manifesto » The Wonder of Christmas

"In the event of Advent, God has spoken and still speaks. As Barth puts it, 'All abstract thought and metaphysics, everything one might know and say of God as Thought, Power and Deed is summed up and completed by the fact that God has spoken and still speaks. Yes, God!'"

tags:: jesus; theology; advent

Reclaiming the Mission » Tim Keller’s “Country Parson”: The Small Dying Urban/Suburban Church Vs. The Small Country Church as a Training Ground For Mission

"These urban/suburban churches are in a death spiral amidst the vestiges of post Christendom urban/suburban centers. The small country churches are in many cases hanging on and in some cases thriving in a still largely Christian friendly rural culture. I suggest these small dying urban/suburban congregations could be the place for renewal in our times."

tags:: ministry; church; mission

Experimental Theology: Notes on Demons & the Powers: Part 8, The Inner Aspect of Material Manifestations of Power

I haven't linked to all the posts in this series, but they are all worth a read. I disagree to an extent, i that I do actually believe that angels and demons are real beings as well as the essence of institutions, but I can still completely respect the admonition to unite the material and spiritual as the writers of Scripture did, that these posts give us. This one, especially, has powerful thoughts on what the role of the church toward the powers should be, and I think it applies regardless.

tags:: spirituality; psychology; theology

Links for December 8th

24 ways: The Construction of Instruction

"Relly Annett-Baker turns our minds to the oft-neglected subject of website copy, and how the small things you say can have a big impact on your customers, revenues, fame, fortune and luck with the opposite sex."