Recap (April 11-17)

On bekahcubed

Book Reviews:

• Bible Babel by Kristin Swenson
• Unveiling Islam by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner

Photo Albums:
In honor of Amy’s wedding this weekend and the reuniting of four of the five “Unveiled Daughters” from Jacksonville STP 2006, I’ve posted some Jacksonville Summer Training Program Photos.

• Ladies Retreat (We camped for a night in Jacksonville for our “ladies retreat”)
• Dying my hair (In preparation for my role as “Posh Spice” in the upcoming costume party)
• Spice Girls (Our team as the Spice Girls for a costume party)
• Team Time (Miscellaneous pics of my team)

On the web

A Series I’m Really Looking forward to…
As someone who has had the privilege of tutoring an underliterate (my word) student and seen her literacy dramatically improve as she grasped hold of the joys of the written word, I’m really excited to hear about Janna’s experiences tutoring a 16 year old boy who couldn’t write the word “remember”.

Check out Janna’s first post of the series–and go back on Monday for the second.

“We set the date and time for our first session. What would I discover about his reading skills? How desperate would his need be? Would I really be able to make a difference? I prayed and told God I was willing, but that He would have to direct my mouth.

He arrived Monday evening and after answering a few “getting to know you” questions, we got started. I asked him to write the word “remember.” He hesitated, twirled the pen in his long, brown fingers, and looked around. I asked him again and he scrawled three letters. “Keep going,” I encouraged.
He added a few more letters and leaned back.

The paper said, “remomble.””

News to take note of:

• Lincoln’s police deal with an auto/turkey accident. My dad mentioned this, but it wasn’t until I saw the diagram that I realized the hilarity of this particular incident that occurred on the road I take to church every week.
• All public tweets to be archived in the Library of Congress. Every public tweet ever made since Twitter’s inception in 2006 will now be housed in the Library of Congress. Which means the humble bekahcubed (along with thousands of others) will make her way into the national collection.

Thought-provoking posts:

• Placing my faith in God, not in His acts. My cousin shares what God has been speaking to her in a fabulous post.
• An open letter to fetal humans. In this pro-life satire, Joe Carter helps fetal humans understand how to reduce their risks of being aborted.

  From the intro:

  “You have made it to the second stage of life. But you’re not out of the woods, as they say, until you’re out of the womb. In America there are roughly 250 abortions for every 1000 live births, which means that you have (all other things being equal) a one in five chance of still being aborted. Here are four reasons you might be aborted and what you can do to avoid this gruesome fate.”

  From the conclusion:

  “Your best hope is to pray and hope that others are praying for you too. With any luck you’ll survive the fetal stage of development and move on to infancy, adolescence, and adulthood. Once you reach this stage of life you’ll be able to join other Americans in exercising one of our most cherished and incontrovertible rights: the right to kill a fetus for any reason you choose.”

  RT: 22 Words

Videos worth seeing:

• Mark Driscoll on the four streams of the emerging/emergent church–in which he makes a distinction between emerging and emergent. I had a conversation with our church’s youth pastor about the church while I was going through the book Why We Love the Church here on my blog. Jeremy (our youth pastor) mentioned Driscoll’s distinction between emergent and emerging. I kept it in the back of my mind–but now I’ve finally found the source!
  

Random:

• Somehow a tweet I tweeted way back in the day made it on to Joshua Harris’s blog. Weird. Amazing the things you find when you google yourself (or your nom-de-plume, as the case may be.)