From Jonny Baker:
At the beginning of the 20th century 75% of the world’s Christians were in Europe and America. At the beginning of the 21st century 60% of the world’s Christians were in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Some people fear this and some are energized by it (and many are indifferent). I’m energized. […]

I didn’t watch the major league baseball steroid testimony yesterday (March Madness is about hoops, baby, even though my bracket is well on its way to being in tatters). But I saw highlights and read a recap by ESPN’s Jayson Stark.
Clearly Mark McGwire took the hardest hit, because every other player there (except Jose […]

This is good news, and well deserved:
Elon is one of 81 institutions in 33 states that The Princeton Review commends and features in its forthcoming book, “Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement.”
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Elon is one of four schools chosen from North Carolina. The other schools are Duke University, North Carolina State […]

Marketing guru Seth Godin writes about the recent controversy that erupted when 119 Harvard MBA applicants hacked into a website to see their admissions status early - except they got caught and now none of them are going to Harvard for their MBA:
…what a gift these 119 people got. An MBA has become a two-part […]

Milton Glaser says everyone in our life is either toxic or nourishing:
Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you […]

Steve Bell says Christianity is not complicated, it’s difficult:
One of my concerns with the manner in which the Bible functions in American Christianity, is that it can serve as a source of welcome complication to distract us from (and substitute for) the difficulty of Christian practices. The intellectual mastery of the biblical text becomes the […]

So they’re remaking The Bad News Bears. It looks just like the original, except more vile & cynical and without the charm of the original.
Why do they have to keep ruining old movies and TV shows by remaking them?