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The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and author of The One-Straw Revolution. As a young man he studied agriculture and worked as an inspector studying diseases and pests on imported plants. He was

Three Challenges in Apologetics

When I started as a church planter in a secular city, I thought I’d face a sophisticated set of questions about Christianity. I was surprised to discover that many people don’t

Pillage the Past

In his book Managing Ourselves, Ari Weinzweig describes three types of creativity: * Creativity that moves forward — new innovations * Creativity that shifts sideways — introducing something from one territory to another, or putting together two

The Lost Art of Pastoring

I occasionally enjoy reading quirky books. For instance, I recently read (and loved) Maynard: Adventures of a Bacon Curer, the homespun memoir of a man who goes only by his first name, can’