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Book Review: Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller: The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership by Warren Bird, ed.
Book Reviews: There’s Hope For Your Church by Gary L. McIntosh and A Place of Grace by William O. Webster
Book Review: Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller: The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership by Warren Bird, ed.
Resurrecting the Celtic Model of Evangelism for the 21st Century: George G. Hunter, III
Dr. George G. Hunter III has been the premier author in alerting Christians in our current era to the ancient Celtic Christian style of evangelism and mission. This model, pioneered by St. Patrick, became the “greatest sustained Christian mission in Christianity’s history.”1 The contagious power of these Christians and their communities ushered in almost 1,000 years of Christian culture to Europe. Hunter identifies the Celtic Christians’ main strategies which can be fruitful in reaching today’s prodigals, “nones,” and modern “barbarians.” This model is urgently needed today since the United States has become the third largest mission field of non-Christians in the world
Resurrecting the Celtic Model of Evangelism for the 21st Century: George G. Hunter, III
Dr. George G. Hunter III has been the premier author in alerting Christians in our current era to the ancient Celtic Christian style of evangelism and mission. This model, pioneered by St. Patrick, became the “greatest sustained Christian mission in Christianity’s history.”1 The contagious power of these Christians and their communities ushered in almost 1,000 years of Christian culture to Europe. Hunter identifies the Celtic Christians’ main strategies which can be fruitful in reaching today’s prodigals, “nones,” and modern “barbarians.” This model is urgently needed today since the United States has become the third largest mission field of non-Christians in the world
Book Reviews: There’s Hope For Your Church by Gary L. McIntosh and A Place of Grace by William O. Webster
Effect of continuous gamma-ray exposure on performance of learned tasks and effect of subsequent fractionated exposures on blood-forming tissue
Sixteen monkeys trained to perform continuous and discrete-avoidance and fixed-ratio tasks with visual and auditory cues were performance-tested before, during, and after 10-day gamma-ray exposures totaling 0, 500, 750, and 1000 rads. Approximately 14 months after the performance-test exposures, surviving animals were exposed to 100-rad gamma-ray fractions at 56-day intervals to observe injury and recovery patterns of blood-forming tissues. The fixed-ratio, food-reward task performance showed a transient decline in all dose groups within 24 hours of the start of gamma-ray exposure, followed by recovery to normal food-consumption levels within 48 to 72 hours. Avoidance tasks were performed successfully by all groups during the 10-day exposure, but reaction times of the two higher dose-rate groups in which animals received 3 and 4 rads per hour or total doses of 750 and 1000 rads, respectively, were somewhat slower
Words and deeds: electoral success for Greens in the US leads to less environmental sabotage
Does extremism necessarily beget violence? Benjamin Farrer and Graig R. Klein compare the electoral success of the US Green Party with rates of environmental sabotage. They found that when Greens won seats at local and state level, sabotage declined. Voters also appeared to punish candidates for violence carried out by environmental campaigners. Extreme words and extreme deeds might seem to ..
Free induction decay of a superposition stored in a quantum dot
We study the free evolution of a superposition initialized with high fidelity
in the neutral-exciton state of a quantum dot. Readout of the state at later
times is achieved by polarized photon detection, averaged over a large number
of cycles. By controlling the fine-structure splitting (FSS) of the dot with a
dc electric field, we show a reduction in the degree of polarization of the
signal when the splitting is minimized. In analogy with the "free induction
decay" observed in nuclear magnetic resonance, we attribute this to hyperfine
interactions with nuclei in the semiconductor. We numerically model this effect
and find good agreement with experimental studies. Our findings have
implications for storage of superpositions in solid-state systems and for
entangled photon pair emission protocols that require a small value of the FSS
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