Reading Round-Up

A moving story. Please read.

The good folks at The Resurgence are doing an excellent and ongoing series on pitfalls in church planting. (Chris & Cassie, have you seen this? If not, it may be worth your time to sit down and look at it with Jason and Letitia… lots of good stuff.) I think many of the general principles would actually be helpful to anyone in ministry or anyone in leadership.

Here is an informative presentation from Jonathan Jarvis, a designer and graduate student in L.A.: “The Crisis of Credit Visualized.”

Remind me never to be Treasury Secretary! According to this article from the New York Times about Timothy Geithner, “At 47, the same age as the president, Mr. Geithner works out at 5:30 a.m., gets to his desk by 6:30 and leaves 15 hours later.”

Here is something I encourage everyone to take a look at... it will only take about 20 min of your time, and it is well worth it: Shai Agassi’s bold plan for the mass adoption of electric cars.

How about this from the Wall Street Journal? America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire. No kidding: “In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.”