Carnival of Modesty - March 31, 2008
Welcome to the March 31, 2008 edition of carnival of modesty. There’s not that much on topic this week in the carnival, but please enjoy these submissions that are on topic!
Rob Moshe presents Live Your Best Life By Serving Others posted at Rob Moshe, saying, “This is not necessarily a fitting post for your carnival. Once the project starts, each day I will recognize a fellow blogger that “Helped”"
Ariah Fine presents Open Letter to Anyone Returning from a Missions Trip posted at Trying to Follow.
My Story
Dawn presents Modesty in Public posted at “At Thy Word”, saying, “I was teased at work for dressing modestly. It really surprised me.”
Shamelle presents It Doesn’t Cost Much To Consult With God posted at Enhance Life.
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How to Reduce Abortions
One of the arguments that I’ve frequently come upon when discussing abortions is that “if we made it illegal it wouldn’t stop.” It is followed up by a list of things that we could do to help limit abortion.
And these are all good things:
- Care for the mothers
- Supply the mothers with food, aid, clothing, support
- Do a better job with sex education
- Educate about adoption
And we could go off on a tangent here talking about what each of these means and whose responsibility it is to do each of these things. That’ll have to wait for another time.
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The Beginning of the End
Believe it or not, we’re coming to the end of the first story over at my Fiction blog. It’s taken almost the whole year, but Adam, Tricia, Laura and Noah will finish up their story in the future and the present in the first "book" I wrote The Mystery of the Purloined Palette.
I used to say that you could learn a lot about me and how I thought from these books– because they were mostly my inner dreams/ramblings. My style of writing at the time was almost to go to sleep dreaming about the characters or to think about what they would think of next.
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Morals without Christianity
It was an interesting conversation that I did not start. The other day I was working at my desk when a coworker– a contractor from natively from Canada– probed to see what I believed in and then offered a short dissertation on the impact of Christianity in his hometown.
Basically, he recounted that in Quebec at one time the Roman Catholic Bishop (or whatever head was there) more or less ruled so far as ethics were concerned. Even public officials would go for this man’s blessing. But during the 50s and 60s when both ours and his country started to reject religion, the people of Quebec stopped listening to this man’s guidance, and now the city is rampant with crime and this man attributes this to the wane of religious authority in the town.
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In the Market for a House, Again
So we’ve started to look at some houses yet again. The difference this time is that our current house is not on the market. After seeing how much stress it caused the last time we tried, my wife and I decided that we’d much rather shoulder the cost of trying to sell an empty house and keep our sanity intact than we would trying to maintain a clean house (at practically a moment’s notice), start homeschooling the children (well, teaching them to read at least) and look for a new house. Plus, we’re not quite sure why the Lord seems to be closing the doors on houses for us right now.
In any event, the whole process will be slightly more costly by doing it this way. You see, after you close on a house you have roughly a month before your first payment on the new house is due. Now, I’ve already been in contact with a mortgage broker, and like all banks they tell me that I can afford quite the house while keeping my current one. However, these banks don’t take into account standard of living and giving– my more than 10% to my church/charity.
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Churches and College Kids
College students pose an enigma for churches. If you have them in your church, it usually means that you will have their youth and energy for probably the next few years (either summers or during the year) and then they will be gone. Let alone the fact that if they are in the area because of the college by the time you have a good enough relationship with them to know where they’re coming from, you’ve lost valuable time.
And yet, because of their youth they may be some of the most valuable assets to a church– and you can’t forget that men are taking longer to come back to the church.
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How Do You Know Where I Am?
By now I’m sure we’ve all bumped into some site that came eerily close to telling you exactly where you are located. You’ve seen the little guy holding up the sign, or the banner stating a string of numbers and the location of your home, if not the town right near by your home. And you begin to think, wow, big brother really is watching over me.
Well, the truth of the matter is that every computer that connects to a network (i.e. the Internet) does so with an address not unlike your postal address so that the data you ask from a web server can return to the right location. And these numbers are pretty good and telling your physical area based on the network you connect to.
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