Kathy Brasby Blog

The Bible: How Stories Impact Us

If I told you that a hero was someone who sacrificed for the good of others, you might nod your head but your eyes would glaze over.  If you watched a hero rescue his daughter from kidnappers or save a city from villains, two hours could fly by and you would have just...

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IPad vs. paper

If you're contemplating the jump from paper into the digital world, maybe this video will help you make your decision.  

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Making music

The cool of the evening drew me outside the orphanage that had drawn my family to Juarez, Mexico. We'd spent the day painting rooms. Another team in our group had poured a cement foundation for an addition to the orphanage. The summer heat had baked out our energy by...

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Barna and the Bible

Information today is so easy to grab. "Google it" has now a verb and if Google fails, well, there's Siri. Sometimes. So if I want to study wisdom, where would I go except Google? I do have other ideas in mind but I gave Google a run. What did I learn? I know wisdom is...

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April Fools review

If creative pranks reveal creative thinking (and I just made this up so who knows?) then there are some creative minds lurking on the internet. Mashable put together a roundup of this year's April Fools jokes. See if you missed any.

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Match trees, the g-ball and YouTube

Google really does have something over my hometown newspaper. Although both love their April Fool's jokes, Google has outlasted the local newspaper. My hometown daily shut down the pranks after the outrage of an April 1 story that featured the suicide of what everyone...

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Media at its worst

Personal assistants are a wonderful thing and, when one is built into your phone, it's a free wonderful thing, right? Let me tell you a story about that. One evening, I was busy and my hands were full. But I had my iPhone and my personal assistant, Siri, right? So...

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Madness, brackets and a dollar

Because I am currently in first place in my group's March Madness bracketing, I'll reveal my system. It seems to be working as well as my granddaughter who, last year, got a long way in her brackets by picking the winners based on their mascots. Cutest won, I think. I...

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Technology and dinosaurs

Technology and writing may seem odd companions, especially for  someone my age. In my defense, I do have a teenage son.  I admit that he claims I rode dinosaurs to school and took notes using a chisel, hammer and piece of slate. Which I think is a pretty lame...

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