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Links for June 24th

A List Apart: Articles: Visual Decision Making
If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? Patrick Lynch doesn't think so.
tags:
user-experience
usability
psychology
design

Links for June 23rd

NPR's ombudsman: Why we bar the word "torture" – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
NPR gets owned for their weak and pathetic refusal to use the word "torture," because it is "loaded with political and social implications for several reasons."
tags:
media
journalism
torture
news
politics

Links for June 22nd

Truthdig – Reports – Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away
"Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught."
tags:
politics
iran

Links for June 18th

Why Iran Matters | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan on why Iran matters so much to him, and why it is the central event in modern history right now.
tags:
culture
politics
andrew-sullivan
iran

Links for June 16th

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3 | CSS | Smashing Magazine
"The earlier we experiment with and adapt new CSS3 properties, the earlier they will be supported by popular browsers and the earlier we’ll be able to use them widely."
tags:
browsers
design
css3
css
My Suspicisions About Systematic Theology | (Ir)religiosity
Great thoughts on the nature of systematic theology and its tendencies. "We will most definitely find that systematic theology is often used to reinforce the status quo at the center rather than identifying with those on the margins…"
tags:
theology

Links for June 11th

Who's Responsible For The Debt? | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
It needs to be said, again and again: Obama is not responsible for the vast majority of the debt. Here it is said in solid numbers.
tags:
andrew-sullivan
economics
politics
obama

Links for June 7th

Saint Anthony the Great part 2 | Real Live Preacher
Interesting comment here that summarizes the Orthodox view of atonement. I find a lot of things in the Orthodox church that I like, or at least things where I can find resonance.
tags:
atonement
theology
orthodox
khad.com – Grace Is All We Have
Fantastic post remind us of the only thing we have to offer that can't be gotten in countless other places in any town.
tags:
evangelism
jesus
church

Links for June 5th

Violence Only Works When We Do It | :: in.a.mirror.dimly ::
Wise thoughts on America's strategy of dealing with violence. We advocate that others use nonviolent means to bring about change, but we don't take our own advice.
tags:
obama
politics
peace
Weblog » Emergent Village » Preparing for Amahoro Africa, June 8-15
Mike Todd is in Africa for the Amahoro Gathering. His words, introducing the gathering and explaining why he is there, are wonderful.
tags:
missiology
church
emerging
africa
AMAHORO AFRICA: The Reformation Conversation
"The missiologist Andrew Walls has long argued that the West has entered a post-Christendom era and that world Christianity is entering a post-Western era. Many are looking to Africa, the cradle of humanity (and to Asia and South America), for the emergence of a reformed and renewed paradigm in Christian thinking and practice."
tags:
emerging
africa
church
missiology

Links for June 1st

Pentecost – Brian McLaren
Great thoughts from Brian McLaren on Pentecost. He makes some really powerful connections that are worthy of pondering.
tags:
jesus
spirituality
theology
brian-mclaren

Links for May 31st

Praying the Bible – Praying with Paul – The New Christians
More from Tony: "What do I do now, Master? is a question each Christ-follower should ask after the Lord brings us through a Damascus Road Experience, or any time he brings us through one chapter of our lives and into another."
tags:
spirituality
prayer
bible
new-testament
paul
tony-jones

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Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.

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