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June 23, 2010

Portable Missions Libraries

With the latest update, iBooks will now accept PDFs – retaining their full formatting. This means the iPad (or the iPhone) could become significant portable libraries of missions material. Any PDF (e.g. Mission Frontiers, the Perspectives reader, the World Christian Foundation courses, missions e-Books, etc) could be easily viewed on an iPad.

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June 22, 2010

How2: Step your church to the world

http://bit.ly/a0ijgx – This is an interesting new resource from Catalyst Services: a step by step manual walking your church through a process of discovering, select, and implementing a “high impact cross-cultural initiative.” I haven’t personally seen or reviewed it, but according to the website it incorporates “best-practice recommendations of over 100 church partnership practitioners highlighted [...]

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April 16, 2010

New Resource on Women at Risk

http://bit.ly/9637Ub – The Mission Exchange has a $20 Update on the Status of At Risk Women.

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March 6, 2010

Technology: feeding the world

Bill Gates reviews a provocative book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, about agricultural biotechnology.

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January 14, 2010

January 2010: What’s in your Kindle?

What I’m reading this month: Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself by Daniel H. Pink. This is an older book, but it has received great reviews, and one blog poster commented that it was one of the books (along with Gladwell & others) that defined the ’00 decade. It isn’t disappointing to [...]

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November 21, 2008

Book Review: Rescued by Angels

Book Review: Rescued by Angels: the story of miracles during the Rwandan genocide Bp. Alexis Bilindabagabo This small thin book contains the story of “Bishop Alexis,” who lived through the Rwandan holocaust and miraculously survived. The title is somewhat misleading since Bp. Alexis never particularly met an angel and has no “concrete” evidence that angels [...]

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June 3, 2008

The Amazon Kindle: a missionary resource

In 1998 I wrote about the future of books, and speculated about the implications of the electronic availability of books. That day is now here: the Amazon Kindle with a 2GB SD card can carry nearly 2,000 books; and an 8GB SD card is easily available. While over 120,000 books in Kindle format are available [...]

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