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Podcast Review: Raising them in His Image

Feb 03 2015

Do you listen to podcasts? If you are not familiar with the term “podcast,” they can be defined as a digital recording of a a radio show, or similar audio medium, that you can download or stream with a device that connects to the internet.

For those of you with iPhones, all you have to do is click the podcast button on your screen and you have instant access to millions of hours of free content.

This month, I am recommending the following podcast for you from the Gospel Coalition, dated December 15, 2014. It is titled, “Raise Them in His Image, Not Yours.”

I’m going to go ahead and give you a summary of this podcast because it had a tremendous wealth of wisdom packed into about 7 minutes.

If focuses on this question:

What is the most paradigm shifting moment you have had as a mom? Here are the three responses recorded.

Christ in the App Store

Feb 10 2014

To read this series, Christ & Culture, from the beginning, click here.

Flappy Bird, originally released in May, became the top free iPhone app mid-January. However, in an unforeseen turn of events, its creator, Don Nguyen, took the app off the store yesterday. According to CNN, the game had an average four-star rating from more than 543,000 reviews in the Apple App Store and 228,000 on Android.

For those of you who didn’t get to experience the maddening addiction of Flappy Bird, the object is to tap the screen to bounce an odd-looking yellow bird through the air without hitting the pipes or the ground. Sound simple? It should, with all logic, be. But Flappy Bird defied logic and became the most frustratingly obsessive game on the app store.

On the iPhone, my high score was 1 but on the iPad, I reached a whopping 5. Most of the addiction comes from that part of your brain where you know – you just know – that you can do better. So you play just one more game … just one more game … just one more game …

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