On the flight back from New York City, I watched a very smart lady give a very boring talk about how to feed the world. But one thought was interesting enough to stick with me: At no other time in history have so few been responsible for feeding so many.
On Sunday, my friend Andy said… 
Posts Tagged ‘significance’
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Laid Over In Chicago
I’m in a Chicago airport (I don’t know which one) laid over before my flight to Madison, WI. Nathan Tasker is with me again this weekend, which is cool, and I sat by a professional skateboarder on my flight here this morning, which is also cool. I don’t remember names but he has a buzz…
Significance Part 3
Thomas Mann once wrote, “Enemies are the necessary concomitant to any robust life.” Tyler Durdan described Generation X as a generation of “slaves in white collars” with “no purpose or place” because “we have no great war.” These are just two ways of re-expressing what some scientist types have come to believe: Much…
Significance Part 2
In criminology there’s this thing called the ”age-crime curve.” In all societies throughout history the tendency to engage in criminal activity increases rapidly in early adoloscence, peaks in early adulthood and then rapidly drops off throughout the 20s and 30s before leveling off in middle age.
But recent research shows this curve doesn’t just apply…
Significance Part 1
Significance. Here’s one theory: In an agricultural society (think Israel in 100 AD or America in the early 1900s) every member of the family is given a significant task. That task is significant because if it’s not accomplished the family suffers. If little Johnny Bob doesn’t milk the cows the family has nothing to drink,…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
