Karl and Sun “are church planting missionaries based in Central Thailand.” (From their ‘about’ page.) I found their blog because Karl found mine, back a while ago. If you want a well-rounded sense of what life is like serving cross-culturally go and have a browse. Karl offered a couple of posts dealing with the value …

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Long title, helpful material. David Powlison provides a guest post on Between Two Worlds. First he observes that this comedy sketch by Bob Newhart has a lot in common with some forms of contemporary counseling. Back in the day this was the common caricature of ‘nouthetic counselling’. Powlison then gives a half dozen contrasts between …

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Well, according to this quote from Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur (posted by Tim Challies) all we need to do is start browsing to find out. …the inspiration behind this book comes from …, T.H. Huxley, the nineteenth-century evolutionary biologist and author of the “infinite monkey theorem.” Huxley’s theory says that if …

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