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13 years ago @ Collide Magazine Blog - Thoughts On Love Wins · 1 reply · +2 points

well done. Hope to visit the office sometime and catch up with a few around there this summer.

14 years ago @ This.org - Queerly Canadian #21: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

If I took a trip to Africa, shouldn't I still be able to give? But I'm not allowed to. While your argument about sexual activity vs identifying as a gay is a good one, it's irrelevant.

If you only have so much money to run say 1000 samples of blood donors, you're simply going to cut out the potentially high risk ones so you don't have to bother with it's costs. Wouldn't you rather test from a batch that will yield 90% good blood than that same batch consisting of a group will significantly lower that yield of good blood?

So with that in mind, they cut out all high risk donors so they don't have to waste money. Whether you're gay, visited Africa, have a disease, have 'at risk' family or had surgery recently, it's simply a method of cutting cots.

If they get to the point where they need a lot more blood, and they are already marketing heavily for donors, perhaps they will open up the pool of acceptance and accept the raised costs of testing all the blood donors. A shame, since the costs will be passed on to the patient... oh wait, I mean the tax payer.

14 years ago @ Martyns in Africa - Scaring in Sudan · 0 replies · +1 points

No religious per-se. It's more of a right of passage/becoming a man thing. The men who have been educated, grew up in Christian boarding schools and now run the country are often not considered 'men' by their tribe because they were never marked.

15 years ago @ Simply Missional - Gospel Justice · 0 replies · +1 points

I have to be honest, I came to read this post with an agenda. I was so worried when I read the title that this would be another gospel defense for gov't/social intervention. WHEW! I am SO glad it's not. ('Gospel Justice does not want to form any sort of government initiative') Really enjoyed this explanation of social justice void of any gov't action. It's water to this dry mouth.

I have been failing myself to come to a concise explanation for my belief in social justice from the Biblical perspective (again void of the gov't). Thank you for explaining it so well!

15 years ago @ Simply Missional - Why I Love Apple · 0 replies · +1 points

As of this moment, I have 10 hard drives sitting on my desk and one other sitting beside me. 3 of them are my media drives. Well actually, in a way only one is. The other two are backups, one I just purchased so I can locate it off-sight. The other 6 are various backups of my computer and other computers.

Apple has made it SO simple now. You just plug in a drive and it asks if you want to use it for backups... you say 'yes' and it does the rest for you. Leave it plugged in, do it once a week, whatever.

I just had two laptops stolen a few months back (right before the new laptops were released) and I happened to have started using backups only 6 months before. When I got the new laptops, just plugged those HDs in and a few hours later it was like I was back on my old machine. My wife had not been as diligent in keeping up with her backup, but she does it much more frequently now.

15 years ago @ Simply Missional - You have to Ask · 1 reply · +1 points

Having just raised funding for 2 years to go overseas long-term as a missionary, I would agree with you 50/50. There were a good handfull of folks who did not want that direct ask. There's no doubt in my mind that as a marketer, communicator and western gen-xer, I want to be asked as do my peers. But many of the older supporters are shied away when there is that direct ask. Your results may be larger, your money raised faster, but I would hesitate to say that the quality of the givers is not the same. I love all of my supporters dearly and some of them are VERY old school in many ways. Some of them would not have been supporters had I asked directly and my ministry would have suffered. Some of these folks are our most fervent prayers for us and for our ministry.

Moral of the story... know your audience.

PS. just found you on twitter and look forward to watching your online space.

15 years ago @ Greg Atkinson - Impotent: Conclusion · 1 reply · +1 points

I think you might be surprised as to how well the prosperity gospel works in Africa. It actually seems like the poorer you are, the more it appeals to you. All it takes is a good speaker to make anyone 'move', just look at Obama... oops, did I say that....

PS. you seen the godtube rebranding?

15 years ago @ Greg Atkinson - National Human Traffic... · 0 replies · +1 points

If you happen to be in Dallas and want to get directly involved, there is some new work being done with Sex Trafficking by Kyle Jenkins. He's in the trenches and you can support him or even lend a hand as a volunteer.

15 years ago @ Greg Atkinson - I Saw Slumdog Millionaire · 0 replies · +1 points

Haven't seen it yet, but Slumdog just won the top awards at the British awards, can't recall what it's called.

15 years ago @ Greg Atkinson - Slow Down · 0 replies · +1 points

It bites, but something has to go, as simple as that. The prime, recent example of this is Tommy Nelson. You probably know about his widely publicized 'crash' a year (or two) ago. Depression was the final symptom, I think the cause was to much on his plate.

http://www.dts.edu/media/play/?MediaItemID=6db486...

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