A Christmas Potpourri

Posted December 21st @ 12:03 am by mikey Print This Post

A collection of links for your edification:

A great Christmas story from Eugene Peterson at CT: “Christmas Shame.”

Guy Kawasaki was the first person to popularize the concept of “evangelism” in marketing, in his case during the early days at Apple. This week he posted “Evangelism: Eternal Life, Forgiveness, and Operating Systems” on his blog and revealed that he learned from the master himself, Billy Graham, at his School of Evangelism.

Study: Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex: So which is it? Manipulating the numbers to say what you already believe or denying the numbers because they don’t agree with what you believe?

Business guru Tom Peters writes some very Think Christian-y kinda stuff in his blog: “A [More or Less] Christmas [and Management] Thought.”

And now for something absolutely inane.

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2 Comments

Linda
December 21, 2006 at 13:31

Thanks for the leadership links, Mikey!

I saw this on a car yesterday:

If you’re not leading the pack of dogs, you won’t be seeing any new scenery.
Michael
December 22, 2006 at 04:28

Regarding the pre-marital sex study:

What so obviously skewers this study is that 33,000 of the 38,000 respondents were women. Considering the average human male, predatory and sexually dominant by nature, is quite likely do have more than one sexual partner prior to (if ever) getting married, and the average human female, given the associated trappings of sexual activity—hormonal response, possible pregnancy, emotional changes, et cetera—is probably less likely to have more than one partner.

In an attempt to keep the survey ~~bias~~ anonymous for the participants, Mr. Finer most likely ignored the fact that many pre-marital sexual partners overlap from one person to the next. Even if the participants were randomly selected (the article doesn’t hint at all at the methodology), a sample this should reflect population trends, including that tendency to overlap sexual partners.

Not to mention that the two cited birth groups—the 1940’s and 1950-1978—were victims of the so-called “sexual revolution.” I am curious to see if this trend continues into the kids of the 80’s and 90’s. My guess: no.