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There is an article on Christianity Today entitled " Why We Send Our Kids to the Poorest Public School. " I think about the main concept of this article all the time. I usually go back and read the article again every six months or so. You should really read it for yourself to understand the rest of my discussion here, but I'll try to summarize. Basically, a Christian mother ends up in a new city and her kids are attending a school that is very different from their previous one. The school is poor and so are the families of the students. Many families are refugees and many students are learning English as a second language. Of course the traditional wisdom of Americanism says that you should get your kids out of there by moving to a different school district or sending them to a private school. However, this mother explains that her Christian faith told her to stay in that school district. She admits that she wrestled with this and struggled to trust God. And while this a...

I recently listened to the audiobook Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.  I felt like I wanted a more concrete understanding of the book, so I checked it out of the library practically re-read every page as I created a 17 page outline/summary of the book. This is just my summary of the author's message; I haven't included any of my personal thoughts or opinions. Due to the size of the document, I have decided to publish it at this link rather than post the whole thing in WordPress. Thanks for checking it out. I hope it helps someone.

This blog post is a reaction piece to a thought-provoking Vox article, “I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing.”  You should follow the link below to read it and then come back to this blog post. http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer To summarize, the author claims that 15% of cops are good, 15% are bad, and 70% could go either way depending on the circumstances.  His basic point is that the culture of policing needs to change and that police officers and police departments need to be held accountable.  I agree, and I want to use this blog post to expand upon the concept and add my perspective to it. I am approaching this topic from my religion of Christianity, specifically evangelical Christianity. Even if you are not a Christian, take a minute to consider the Christian philosophy of humans. First, God created all humans as good people. In fact, he made them like him, in His image.  The second Christian tenant is that humans (star...

Does the world really need another blog post discussing which lives matter? Probably not. But I want to get my thoughts on paper and be able articulate my position to anyone who asks me. This is being written in July 2016, and if you haven't checked your history book recently, a lot is happening right now. Consider the following statements that you may have heard recently: #BlackLivesMatter #UnbornLivesMatter #BlueLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter The problem I have with "All Lives Matter" is that it is most often used as a response to the phrase "Black Lives Matter." In addition, it is a response that is used to dismiss both the statement "Black Lives Matter" and the underlying injustices of our society that make it necessary to say that black lives matter. Remember, "Black Lives Matter" has an implied "too" at the end . We already know that all lives matter. Our society is already set up so that white lives matter. We want black lives t...

I follow the religion of Christianity, which is quite a broad term. If you're looking to narrow it down a bit, I would say I'm an evangelical Christian. Here's the big picture in four points. Creation: God created the whole world, declared it to be good and created humans in his image. Fall: Mankind fell from relationship with God. Sin entered God's perfect world and has been messing it up ever since. Humans are sinful, both because of their sin nature and because they commit acts of sin. Redemption: Jesus Christ came to earth and died in the place of human sinners so that we could be restored to our relationship with God. Jesus Christ was and is fully God and fully man, and God raised him from the dead, as the defeat of sin and death. Restoration: Jesus Christ will return to earth to finish his redemption once and for all. Sin, Satan, and sinners will be judged. A new heaven and new earth will come about that will restore things to the perfect created order that God in...

I was hoping to edit HTML here, but I don't think WordPress supports that. You can do very basic HTML. But the video and audio tags are blocked. A great place to test out your html and css is on Google Drive. https://googledrive.com/host/0B716ywBKT84AMXBENXlnYmJISlE/GoogleDriveHosting.html Read more details here: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/announcing-google-drive-site-publishing.html

No one else is saying this, so I thought I would make the argument. I am really, really glad that Microsoft OneDrive does not use placeholder files in Windows 10. I just want the selective sync option like I had in Windows 7. Some people got really attached to the placeholders, but I hated them. They really messed up backup software, such as CrashPlan. Besides, I have an entire folder in OneDrive called “Archive.” It’s an archive ; I don’t want that folder ever touching my desktop PC. That folder needs to stay in the cloud and never be touched unless disaster strikes.