today I read a book and saw a movie

it's not often that i read a book cover to cover in a given day. i can count on one hand how many times that has happened.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - i read this book by Malcolm Gladwell today. it's a fascinating book about the nature of social epidemics. Gladwell offers various examples to illustrate his findings ranging from health epidemics to product/sales epidemics. As a student of theology and church leadership, i find it intriguing to consider this epidemiology as it relates to church stuff.

Amazing Grace - after finishing the tipping point, i had the opportunity to see a screening of the new biographical movie about the abolitionist William Wilberforce. The movie highlights how, as a Member of Parliament, Wilberforce navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Wilberforce demonstrates perhaps the healthiest way in which one's religion and involvement in politics should converge. The movie opens to audiences this Friday, February 23rd. here's a link:


...goodnight...

FINALLY

today is the first day in three weeks that the temperature rose above the freezing mark...THREE WEEKS! at the coldest, lows were around -11 with wind chills exceeding -30. that's probably nothing for some folks, but for a kid from NC, that's almost unbearable, but i survived.

today the high is supposed be around 38...i just might wear shorts and a t-shirt.

marking a moment

today...i've been on this earth for 3 full decades...and that's something to be excited about :)

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...i'm just sayin'...this is awesome.