November 2009
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Dodgy Garden Hardware
I am often jealous of the impact the invention of the printing press had on the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. This message was sent by a new friend living in Australia. The Internet kicks the printing press’s ass.
Khad,
I hope you don’t find this message strange, even though I kind of do.
I’ve listened to all the Outlaw Preachers podcasts/precasts in the last few...
What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? →
Shane Claiborne writes an amazing open letter to nonbelievers:
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten...
Outlaw Preachers on Wikipedia →
We have arrived.
UPDATE: But apparently we were kicked out. The Wikipedia page was deleted. Please continue this great work. Do not let one overzealous user dampen our spirits or momentum.
Pi
SOL: You remember Archimedes of Syracuse? The King asks Archimedes to determine if a present he’s received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks. Insomnia haunts him, and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife--she’s forced to share a bed with this genius--convinces him to take a bath, to relax. While he is entering the tub Archimedes notices the bathwater rise. Displacement. A way to determine volume. And thus, a way to determine density, weight over volume. And thus, Archimedes solves the problem. He screams “Eureka!” and is so overwhelmed he runs dripping naked through the streets to the King’s palace to report his discovery. Now, what is the moral of the story?
MAX: That a breakthrough will come...
SOL: Wrong. The point of the story is the wife. You listen to your wife, she will give you perspective. Meaning, you need a break, you have to take a bath, or you’ll get nowhere. There will be no order, only chaos. Go home Max and you take a bath.