David M Quinn

Clover Summer Promotion - Save $50 On A New Website!

2013-06-15T12:06:00.003-07:00

Do you have the responsibility of setting up and running a website for your business or ministry? Maybe you're launching a nonprofit or trying to build your online portfolio to display some art or other work. If you've been thinking about purchasing or designing a new website, you really need to...

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The 200th Post

2013-06-14T17:50:00.000-07:00

This is officially my 200th post since starting the blog in 2007. When I got started, it was mostly a way to tell stories for and about my friends and family. Since then, I've added thoughts about life, books, theology, culture, philosophy, writing, traveling, work, and a lot of other wild...

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4 Dallas Willard Titles on Sale Now

2013-06-04T12:02:00.000-07:00

If you have a Kindle or the Free Kindle App, you have an amazing opportunity to get 4 great titles written by Dallas Willard at some really great prices. You can get three of them for $3.99 each and the fourth for $1. The Spirit of the Disciplines is only $3.99. It's a #1...

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A Book to Challenge Your American Christianity - Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence

2013-05-14T11:30:00.000-07:00

I have the great privilege of working with a lot of thoughtful, scholarly people who take the command to "love God with all your mind" very seriously. That privilege also allows me to hear about the great books they are writing. I'm particularly excited to introduce to you a book that is sure...

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An Interesting New Book I'll Be Reviewing - An Amazon Bestseller

2013-05-10T15:30:00.000-07:00

Shortly, I will be receiving a review copy of "God's Favorite Place on Earth" by Frank Viola. The book released May 1st and stayed in the top #50 on Amazon.com for 8 straight days. There's a lot of buzz about this book on the Web, and I'll be writing a review after I read it. I...

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Learning to Focus on What's Most Important

2013-05-10T08:30:00.000-07:00

The older we get the more motivation we should have to focus on doing a few things well, instead of doing many things with mediocrity. My brother and I were having a conversation the other day and we realized that, for most of our lives, we have tried to do a lot of different things. The result is...

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A Collection of Tributes to Dallas Willard

2013-05-09T11:00:00.000-07:00

Since the death of Dallas Willard, many tributes have begun to pop up around the web in honor of his life and teachings. Many of these are written by people who knew knew him well, or interacted with and learned from him in various settings. These articles will give you a good idea about the kind...

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Dallas Willard (1935-2013)

2013-05-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

I will miss having the ability to hear Dallas Willard speak in person, though I'm thankful that so many writings, audio, and video lectures remain for us to enjoy. I will always be grateful for the ways God has used the life and thoughts of Dallas to help me make sense of my own spiritual...

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The Map Series: How You Can Map Books and Stories

2013-05-08T09:00:00.000-07:00

How To Map Books Stories of any kind may be one of the most enjoyable things to map, in my opinion. There are so many ways to map books. You can map the relationship of one, or a group of books, to another. You can map the people and events within a story. Many authors also create their own worlds...

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The Map Series: How to Map History

2013-05-07T11:00:00.000-07:00

How to Map History A Case for Mapping History In many ways, history itself is a map. A good knowledge of world history will allow you to piece together the prominent events and people over a given period of time and understand how they all fit together. That knowledge will provide you with a map...

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Please Pray for Dallas Willard

2013-05-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

News spread quickly today that Dallas Willard has been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. I've written before about how much Dallas has meant to me and my formation. I am praying for him and his family and I hope you will too. He's a genuinely humble and caring man who's provided a lot of great...

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The Map Series: How to Map Beer

2013-05-06T10:30:00.000-07:00

How to Map Beer In the first post of this series, I wrote about Why We Love Maps. Today we'll turn our attention to mapping something that many of us enjoy - beer. Beer is a great subject to map. It has a long and extensive history and can be found almost everywhere in the world. There are many...

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The Map Series: Why We Love Maps

2013-05-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

Why We Love Maps People have always been fascinated with trying to map things, people and places. The most traditional and prevalent type of map is the one that attempts to accurately display the relationships between locations on the earth. Whether it was needing to know how to direct someone to...

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Act Now! Or Wait for Something Better!!

2013-05-01T09:00:00.000-07:00

Act now! If you order now, you will receive this awesome new product for only three easy payments of some seemingly small amount of money, and we'll throw in two more of these things for FREE! But only if you act now! We have been sold a lot of garbage this way. Think about how many things...

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Writing is Hard, But You Need to Keep Doing It

2013-04-30T09:00:00.000-07:00

I try to write every day in some way or another, but much of it is not worth sharing. It takes so much time to produce something I feel confident enough to share with the rest of the world, or at least the small audience in the world who cares to read anything going on in my head. There are times I...

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World Thinkers 2013: Richard Dawkins and The Problem with Polls

2013-04-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

The recently announced results of Prospect's world thinkers poll indicate that Richard Dawkins is "The World's Greatest Thinker". They state that 10,000 votes were collected from over 100 countries. For what appears to be a great general consensus, the statistic doesn't tell us very much. For...

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The Story of My First Olympic Triathlon

2013-04-25T10:33:00.000-07:00

This past Saturday, April 20th, 2013 marks the day that I participated in and finished my first triathlon: The Omegawave World Triathlon San Diego. We woke up at 4:30am Saturday morning and entered into an almost mechanical routine to make sure every piece of equipment and all of our gear was ready...

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What I've Learned Training For A Triathlon

2013-04-19T09:00:00.000-07:00

Many of you are aware that I've been training for a triathlon for the past six months. The majority of my training has consisted of running and cycling, with swimming and weight training in smaller amounts. It's the most intense physical training I've done since high school (more than 15 years...

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The World as 100 People

2013-04-17T12:14:00.000-07:00

How often have you been overwhelmed by the magnitude of information about people or problems in the world? It's difficult to grasp the big picture of things like global poverty, language and culture, health, or religion. When I'm thinking through ways to engage on those issue, I often view them in...

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2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners

2013-04-15T17:30:00.000-07:00

Pulitzer Prize Book Winners Every year in April, the Pulitzer Board advises the president of Columbia University, who announces the winners of the Pulitzer Prize in the fields of Journalism and Letters, Drama & Music. The award was established in 1917 to honor the will of Joseph Pulitzer,...

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The Sandlot: 20th Anniversary

2013-04-09T18:00:00.000-07:00

I grew up loving The Sandlot. My brothers and I can quote every line of that movie and re-enact every scene. One time we discovered that there was a French dubbing available on our DVD, so we decided we should probably memorize our favorite lines in French too. If you thought Squints saying...

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2013-04-09T15:30:00.000-07:00

The only movie I need to see this year comes out on Friday.

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The Silo Project

2013-03-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

There's a great new resource available for churches and people like us who want to study theology without going to seminary and taking on loads of debt. If you're interested or know someone who might be, check out The Silo Project today. It's a collection of mini-courses designed to be taken...

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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis for $1.99

2013-03-05T14:01:00.000-08:00

Here's another great opportunity to get a classic from C.S. Lewis at an amazing price. Mere Christianity was the first Lewis book I ever read and it's one I return to often. If you own a kindle or have the free app versions for your desktop computer or smart phone, you have to get this! Get...

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The Christian History Institute

2013-03-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

There is a great resource available for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of Church history. The Christian History Institute recently launched a new website, and it looks great. One of my favorite things about their publication is the way they take a specific issue and trace its...

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