Why men have stopped singing in church

Worshippers stood obediently as the band rocked out, the smoke machine belched and lights flashed. Lyrics were projected on the screen, but almost no one sang them. A few women were trying, but I saw only one male (other than the worship leader) making the attempt.

Four Myths of Global Leadership

Global leadership itself is not a myth. It is possible to lead effectively across multiple cultures. This is the very thing we’ve been studying in our research on cultural intelligence across the last fifteen years. We have growing evidence that a leader’s cultural intelligence predicts several important leadership outcomes. Effectively leading across various cultures is a capability that can be measured and improved. But it begins with a more thoughtful, situational understanding of leadership.

The Three Critical Elements to Effective Speech Delivery

#1 – Be easy to understand.
#2 – Be sure to connect to this audience by using your eyes and body.
#3 – Be sure to demonstrate energy and passion about your subject with your body movements and gestures.

Visualizing Paul’s Corinth– Part One
Visualizing Paul’s Corinth– Part Two

Corinth was not the Greek city of Agamemnon’s day, but rather a bustling Roman city, and it would appear that Paul set out to take advantage of his extra status in such a Roman colony town, here and in Philippi as well.

Puritan names: Lists of bizarre religious nomenclature used by Puritans

Perhaps their greatest gift to history, however, is their wonderfully strange taste in names. A wide variety of Hebrew names came into common usage beginning in 1560, when the first readily accessible English Bible was published. But by the late 16th century many Puritan communities in Southern Britain saw common names as too worldly, and opted instead to name children after virtues or with religious slogans as a way of setting the community apart from non-Puritan neighbors. Often, Puritan parents chose names that served to remind the child about sin and pain.

Hawaii can’t fit woman’s last name on license

The documents only have room for 35 characters. Her name has 35 letters plus a mark used in the Hawaiian alphabet, called an okina.
So Hawaii County instead issued her driver’s license and her state ID with the last letter of her name chopped off. And it omitted her first name.