Wednesday's News & Ideas
Time’s report on race and megachurches: The backstory
Sojourners, God’s Politics blog: Maybe the increase in racial diversity at megachurches is due more to the changing demographics of the suburbs.
Sojourner’s, God’s Politics blog: Interview with David Van Biema
New statement ‘first-ever consensus’ on religious expression and U.S. law
Associated Baptist Press: Diverse group of leaders issues consensus statement aimed at advancing public understanding of religious expression in the public square.
The myth of the perfect parent
Christianity Today: Why the best parenting techniques don't produce Christian children.
What a 100-year-old coach can teach us about leadership
Fast Company: Three things you need to keep your leadership and life in perspective: Friends. Family. Health.
UK vicar invokes God's blessing on BlackBerrys
Associated Press: A venerable British church blesses cell phones, laptops and other modern high-tech workplace tools.
The Spark
The children of cyberspace: Old fogies by their 20s
The worldviews and lives of children born today will be shaped in very deliberate ways by constantly emerging new technologies. They’ll never know a world without digital books, Skype video chats with faraway relatives, and video games on the iPhone, the New York Times reports. Researchers theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development. (Among the changed expectations that future generations will likely have is a relaxed notion of privacy. As Read, Write Web noted last week, the founder of Facebook already contends the age of privacy is over.)
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