The Gospel of Generosity

I was sorry to read a viral story this morning about a waitress who posted a receipt online on which a pastor crossed out an automatic tip of 18% and wrote in 0% with a comment "I give God 10% why should you get 18%." Lots of ink has already been spilled on this today …

No One Knows How to Make Mouse

If you've got two and a half minutes free and want to acquire a splinter in your mind then watch this. That's a cool thought! No one on earth has all the knowledge to make a computer mouse.  In the (post)modern world we are necessarily dependent on each other.  So what does this mean? This …

A Promise to Abolish Slavery

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued in the middle of the US Civil war, which abolished slavery in the ten southern states who were still in rebellion against the Northern Union. Freedom for slaves in other states came a few years later but anyone familiar with American (and Canadian) history knows …