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Standing!
The cure for all your health problems stemming from sitting in front of screen all day at the office? Standing desks, they said.
Not any longer.
Yes, folks who sit all day need to move around. But standing desks, apparently, are not the compensation for inactivity. Or so declared researchers from the Universities of Sydney, and Perth, and from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in “Device-Measured Stationary Behaviour and Cardiovascular and Orthostatic Circulatory Disease
Goodbyes?
How long should a goodbye last? Is there any rule on this?
Now there is. In the airport at Dunedin, at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island.
So how long is too long to hug? Anything over 180 seconds, saith the authorities.
The airport’s chief executive, Dan De Bono, declared that three minutes was ample time to activate the happy hormones generated by a good hug.
He added:
To prove the point, I timed myself earlier that day, going the full quota in front of an audience
Sweetness!
Oops!
Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade was the culprit. Note: “Zero Sugar.”
Well, it wasn’t “Zero Sugar.” It had loads of sugar. Because those cans contained the regular lemonade formula. Full sugar! Sweet! 150 calories and 40g of sugar in each 12oz. can while the Zero Sugar version was supposed to have only 5 calories and 0 sugars.
13,152 cases, each with 12 cartons of 12 cans of 12 ounces of lemonade. That’s a lot of lemonade. (And a lot of sugar.)
Ye olde company,
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Theology Issues–2
This is Part 2 of an interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts. (Part 1 can be found here.)
Theology Issues–1
Another interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts.
Part 1 here (Part 2 to follow next month):
1 Timothy 6:1–2
The service of believing slaves towards their masters, a benefaction bestowed by the former upon the latter, is paradigmatic of selflessness and godliness in the divine household, as believers serve one another with good works, thus enhancing the reputation of God.
In 6:2, it appears that that situation is of believing slaves working for believing masters; therefore, it seems that 6:1 deals with the case of believing slaves working for unbelieving masters. In the latter
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Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.