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I’m taking a break from blogging. Not sure when I’ll return. Probably in the New Year. Maybe before then.

Hoping to spend more time seeking God and thinking and praying about my future =)

International Development:

1) Foreign Policy: Five Population Trends to Watch.

2) The Ecologist: Behind the Eco Labels.

3) Guardian: Can science really save the world?

4) San Francisco Bay Guardian: Bjørn Lomborg tells climate-change worrywarts to chillax in Cool It.

5) AlterNet: The authors of the new book Break Through argue that scaring people with bad news about the environment is no way to get them to change - what’s needed is a dream we all want to be a part of.

Politics & Economics:

6) Commentary Magazine: The Past, Present and Future of Neoconservatism.

7) Inside Higher Ed: Who You Calling Heterodox?

Progressive Christianity:

8) digital.leadnet.org: Reaching the Post-Congregational Christian.

9) Christianity Today: Why I am not a Red-Letter Christian.

Others:

10) A very inspiring video: Thriller.

As a church, in the name of the church, we don’t usually do that [i.e. get involved in the protests]…I have a high respect for those monks and I think in many ways it’s an embarrassment for many of us Christians - I wish we could just rise up as a church, but that’s just not how that situation’s worked out. Again, I would say that I’m in full support of [the monks and protesters]. And I think most evangelicals admire their courage, their willingness to sacrifice the favor that they get from the government, and their willingness to even sacrifice their lives. We would give them high respect for that. (Pastor David, a Burmese church planter)

International Development:

1) Foreign Policy: Why Climate Change Can’t Be Stopped.

2) Asia Sentinel: Slum tourism is a way for travelers to taste the exotica of squalor.

3) BusinessWeek: How basic cell phones are sparking economic hope and growth in emerging - and even non-emerging - nations.

4) Campus Progress: The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming.

5) Wired: Two Environmentalists Anger Their Brethren.

Politics & Economics:

6) Prospect: In search of British values (Part One, Part Two)

7) Reset: The dilemma of the liberal State.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Books & Culture: Theology from a prog rock band.

9) Times Online: Ever heard the one about Jesus and the good news?

Others:

10) Tikkun: Neuroscience and Fundamentalism.

My thoughts are with the Burmese people. It’s good to see some people in Singapore (not all Burmese, some Singaporeans too) caring about what’s happening there (see here, here and here). Here’s an article on the role of my pragmatic (read: spineless) and hypocritical government in the oppression of the Burmese people.

I’m an evangelical with a capital E. I hesitate to make such a confession, for I am painfully aware of the baggage the label carries. Without wanting to blame Americans for all the problems of the world, it is, well, largely their fault.” (Joel Edwards, president of the Evangelical Alliance U.K.)