(Post Updated: Feb 13th, 2018) What is Earn.com? Earn.com is a nifty site where individuals can receive and respond to messages from various organizations and other individuals in exchange for a few dollars. For example I’m a member of a number of lists including: Facebook Users GitHub Users HTML Programmers Instagram Users Pinterest Users …
Compassion International is an awesome charity I’ve been supporting for years – and want you to know about and support as well. Compassion focuses on providing for the basic needs of children in third world countries around the world. They provide food, water, education, medical care, opportunities, and the gospel to children who are in …
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Running from Politics I follow politics, I can discuss politics, but I try to avoid taking a position – especially publicly – on politics. As a child of the evangelical right – including the fundamentalist response to sixties counterculture – I have seen first-hand the diminishing of the gospel, of love, of faith when politics …
Tracie Cone has a great article over on Yahoo! News about Larry Powell, a school superintendent in Fresno California responsible for overseeing 325 schools with a total of 190,000 students. Larry has made the decision to give back the vast majority of his salary to the school district for the upcoming three years – totaling …
Update: See the end of this article for some important updates. Recently I’ve been looking into what options are available for folks who need to run criminal background checks. This field has been changing rapidly over the past several years with technological advances and if you have been using a provider for a long period …
Today as I was driving home from work I was listening to NPR and heard a story about the congressional battle over capping fees banks charge for purchases. Such a cap would benefit retailers (anyone who accepts debit cards) and would theoretically result in lower prices for the consumer. Apparently, the battle has been pretty …
Thinking of the Poor: I’m not a fancy person in most areas. I try to save my money and spend it on things I think are worthwhile and valuable. For example, sponsoring a Compassion child. So, what am I doing spending $200 on a glorified alarm clock – the Zeo? I’m glad you asked. Individuals …
Tonight at Nomads we continued our annual tradition of participating in Operation Christmas Child (OCC). OCC is organized and run by Samaritan’s Purse, a non-profit Christian organization under the leadership of Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham. Each year hundreds of thousands (millions?) of shoe boxes are filled with simple gifts – toothbrushes, soap, wash …
Tim Hornyak over at C|NET wrote about Nokero’s N100 Solar LED Light Bulb in a recent article and I was impressed by the technology – if it works as Nokero describes. Essentially, Nokero is targeting the developing world – offering them a relatively inexpensive device that charges during the day using the sun and then …
Charity and I recently watched Traitor and thoroughly enjoyed it. Normally, I might not have picked the title up – the preview while interesting wasn’t amazing – but Don Cheadle is a huge draw for me in any film, since his amazing work with Hotel Rwanda (on the Rwandan Genocide) and his advocacy repeatedly for …