La Carpio 2.0
Introduction
Last Friday was a landmark day in La Cueva de La Carpio! A year and a half after the computer lab was donated, the learning lab is now networked, connected to the internet, and climate controlled! This was a big step, opening a whole digital landscape of opportunities for the community. Friday we did a soft launch, and the
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The Israelites and Technology
The Sword, the Sling, and the One True King
by Brendan Blowers, Per (S.N.)
When we go to the Bible looking for wisdom on the topic of technology, we first have to redefine our ideas of “technology” to fit the time of the Israelites. We have to roll back our ideas of “technology” about 2500 years, and realize we aren’t talking about iPads, iPods, flat screens, cloud computing,
read onCross-cultural Urban Monasticism
I’m not really sure what this term means, but I think it’s supposed to be part of the emergent church movement or something. Anyway it doesn’t really matter, because I’m forming some ideas on what it might mean in a cross-cultural context.
I have, in my mind, the image of a traditional “monk,” someone that commits himself to celibacy and being set apart from the world for an extended period of time, in order to devote
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What type of people does DH Lawrence say transmit nothing? read onProtected: Two stomach aches in one week
What's the name of the little girl in the picture of me on my prayer card? read onProtected: Disconnect
According to the original Peter Pan play, what would be an awfully big adventure? read onEvery day do something that won’t compute
The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
by Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die
The 10/40 window and the Johari window
The 10/40 window is an evangelical Christian missions term made popular I don’t know when, but it refers to strip of area between latitude 10 and 40, where the majority of the world’s population lives and apparently a majority of unreached people groups reside.
The Johari window is a model used to understand self-awareness and self-disclosure, used to graphically represent a person’s knowledge about themself compared to OTHERS’ knowledge of them.
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Today I felt like I was in a movie.
Today I felt like I was in a movie. The part where minor innocent bystanders are suddenly and traumatically wiped out by whatever the huge natural disaster is that’s threatening humans worldwide. The scene where unexplained catastrophy falls from the sky and confused citizens scatter helplessly.
Nothing big happened, really, it’s just that as I was casually having a conversation in a bus heading downtown, I suddenly noticed several police cars with lights flashing,
read onMaybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you get
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