Jeffrey C. Long

I don’t have a category for this, and it doesn’t necessarily fit my tag line. But it’s very interesting, so I wanted to share. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600&print=true

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Recently in my devotional reading, I was struck by Psalm 34:3-5 “Oh, magnify The LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought The LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.” I want it [...]

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Because a large part of my work involves writing sermons, I thought it would be worthwhile to start writing about writing. You’ll notice the change in my tagline at the headline of my site. This is the inaugural post on the subject. This comes from Paul Graham at http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html Writing, Briefly (Informal surveys of referring [...]

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The following was sent to me as an email from First Amendment Schools, an organization I discovered while taking classes for my teaching certificate. I believe it addresses well the steps needed to meet the challenge of disaffected students who resort to violence. And I believe that FAS is an important voice in establishing a [...]

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I posted this so you would have the full context of the quote. The significant part is contrasting a google search for a topic with looking at the recent tags in del.icio.us. Try it yourself. Search in google for Neil Gaiman and then go to http://del.icio.us/neilgaiman and see which results are more interesting. <snip> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002206710_paul14.html [...]

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There are many farmers in the church that I pastor. So I thought this might be interesting to some people. Who would have thought that cell phones and local area wireless internet could change the life of rural farmers. From SmartMobs Farmers, Phones and Markets: Mobile Technology In Rural Development: My latest article for TheFeature [...]

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For those of you new to the phenomenon, my website is what is known in internet parlance as a web log, or blog for short. It is hosted through the company Typepad and makes internet publishing extremely easy. So easy in fact, that it has created a revolution of online content. Millions of lay people [...]

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An old tale speaks of a man who died and faced the angel Gabriel at heaven’s gates. The angel said, “Here’s how this works. You need a hundred points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things you have done, and I will give a certain number of points for each [...]

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Nancy writes: Do you have topical folders within Devonthink or do you just dump everything in? Yes, I keep groups(folders) for everything I put in Devon. At first I had broad categories filled with subcategories and subsubcategories. But following my study of Getting Things Done (great book btw) I decided I wanted a flatter file [...]

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From Just Think Journal as springboard for living: Earlier this week, the Journalisimo | Back to Analog blog carried this quote on journaling by Janet Ruth Falon from Body and Soul magazine: “Keep a vital journal. Therapy isn’t for everyone, certainly, but most people can benefit from at least a little introspection. The more solid [...]

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