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Excellent infographic from village.rhythms.org on how significant mobile phones are in today’s world.
Via http://village.rhythms.org/square/mobile-infographic/
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Tweet This is a fascinating TED talk by Michael Norton about how our use of money can help to make us happy. This is based on psychological research and confirms what Christians have always understood (or should have done!) – that wealth is a snare, and that generosity in relationships is part of what it [...] Tweet IN 1988, Stephen Hawking, a British cosmologist, ended his best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time”, on a cliff hanger. If we find a physical theory that explains everything, he wrote—suggesting that this happy day was not too far off—“then we would know the mind of God.” But the professor didn’t mean it literally. [...] Tweet The second in the series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. This one is considering reasons why it is rational to believe that God exists. 2. Is God a Delusion? View more webinars from Tony Watkins. Handout available here. [...] Tweet Tweet Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me: Email 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 100 million – [...] Tweet This is the event at which I’m speaking on Friday evening:
Tweet Susan Bradley writes in Windows Secrets (8 October 2009): The ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine. Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and [...]Tweet Image courtesy Icon Film Distribution © 2009 This article was first published on Culturewatch.org. © Tony Watkins, 2010 Today sees the release in UK cinemas of Creation, marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly give beautifully nuanced performances as Charles and Emma Darwin experiencing a [...] As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, his influence on the world is as enormous as ever. Whatever you think of his ideas, there’s no doubt that they have shaped science and profoundly affected many aspects of contemporary culture. Darwin’s meticulous work established the natural sciences as a serious scientific discipline for the first time. If this was Darwin’s only legacy, he would still be a towering figure in the history of science. But for most people, his name is linked only with On the Origin of Species. [...] [...] I recently interviewed Nick Spencer for a one-off Culturewatch.tv video on Creation, the forthcoming film about Charles Darwin. Nick is the author of Darwin and God.[...] [...] Tweet Nev Pierce has written a piece about Creation in the LA Times. . . . Darwin’s continuing relevance is one reason why “Creation” has been selected to open Toronto, which usually kicks off with a home-grown picture. “It’s a bit of a tradition for us to open with a Canadian [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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