Chicks with Guns

"Chicks with Guns" by Lindsay McCrum
I learned how to shoot in high school as every school girl from Taiwan at that time had to. Then I was invited to join the high school shooting team since I was a good shooter and not afraid of guns. I was eventually kicked off the team due to my deteriorating eyesight (nearsightedness). But my fond of guns never really went away. A few years ago when my church held an outing for gun range, I made sure that both of my children (son and daughter) learned gun safety and how to shoot.

This week I leaned that 15 to 20 millions women in the US own guns in the book titled "Chicks with Guns" by Lindsay McCrum.

Topography of Faith by USATODAY

Thank you, Jay, for pointing me to this tool! The Pew survey sorts people into major religious grouping in the US.
Click on the following and see the different religions by state and elsewhere by holding cursor over a state.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/pew-religion-08/flash.htm

Some data just might surprise you!

Hallelujah Chorus -Quinhagak, Alaska

This video, from the small Yupiq Eskimo Village of Quinhagak, Alaska , was a school computer project intended for the other Yupiq villages in the area. Much to the villagers' shock, close to one million people have viewed it. The idea might start with the "silent monk" video, but this one carries the creative idea into their own social and cultural context. It simply bring a smile to your face!

What Is In the News: Woman, Humanity, Ethic, Science, and Culture Bondages

1. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot.

--Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer who was terminally ill with cervical-cancer and died at age 31.  Before her death, doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital removed two dime-sized pieces of her cervix for research without her permission.

--Henrietta Lacks' cells were the first human cells to be grown successfully in a lab. Her cells proved to be so prolific and sturdy that researchers everywhere wanted them.

--Over the years, billions of her cells have been grown in labs---estimated to be enough to circle the equator three times.

THE LIST

Dear Mabel pointed me to Wayne Grudem's article on "What women should do in church?", check it out here.  He listed 83 church ministries and categorized them into three lists:

List 1 includes ministries that involve governing authority;
List 2 includes ministries that involve Bible teaching; and
List 3 includes ministries that involve public visibility and recognition.

I realize that you can go to the link and read the list yourself....and please do read the entire article.  However, I can not seem to pass up the most wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the forming process of a Pharisee.  It is not every day that one can have a living and modern day example of the good old Pharisee who have developed 39 categories of activities prohibited on Sabbath, yet so completely missed the true meaning of Sabbath.