November 18, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin Don’t you love going to Ikea? They have it all. You tour the showroom, plop on the furniture, hold things in your hands, see a completed vision for what a room is supposed to look like, then follow the maps to pick up everything you need and take it [...]
November 12, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin I have a friend named Shari who hates to throw things out. She is environmentally attuned, composts and conserves, recycles and repurposes. The folks at her church wait to throw things into the dumpster until she’s out of town. That’s because she has been known to climb into the [...]
November 6, 2015 By Phil Maynard As we approach the release of my new Membership to Discipleship book in late November, I want to continue to give you some insights into how this book came to be. It has been an organic outgrowth of decades of ministry work. For years, both as a pastor of [...]
November 2, 2015 By Phil Maynard I am very excited to share that on November 20th, we are officially launching a new book, called Membership to Discipleship. This book is the product of many years of work with the leaders of individual congregations across the United States—it is, in a very real sense, the culmination [...]
October 27, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin In an expansive essay in a recent New York Times Sunday Review, “Stop Googling and Let’s Talk,” (a preview of her new book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age), professor and author Sherry Turkle shares her research and conclusions in the field of online connectivity [...]
October 14, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin Peyton Manning is one of the best quarterbacks to play the game of football. In his 17-year career, he has thrown for more than 70,000 yards, and just a few weeks ago became the record holder for most NFL touchdown throws (at 538 and counting). He is most widely [...]
October 6, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin Click Here to Read Full VentureBeat Article Elon Musk is considered by many to be a genius. He founded PayPal, SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla. He works tirelessly to harness technology to build money making businesses AND promote a more environmental (and adventure-filled) planet. Heck, he has been acknowledged as [...]
October 1, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin Destin Sandlin is an aerospace engineer (that is, he is a real rocket scientist who works at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama). He is also a YouTube educator, who makes entertaining videos about scientific insights, which he posts on a channel called, Smarter Every Day. Recently, a friend sent [...]
September 22, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin I was a big fan of the AMC series Mad Men, which focused on the characters in a Madison Avenue advertising agency during the 1960’s. One of the most discussed and beloved aspects of the show was the way it captured the vibe of that era–how it looked and [...]
June 21, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin You’ve probably never heard of Alex Kipman. He’s the engineer behind one of the ‘wow’ developments in tech devices right now, a gizmo that Microsoft is developing called the HoloLens. According to Time Magazine, the HoloLens is a virtual reality headset that “effectively projects 3-D holograms directly in front [...]