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Let's Talk About those Plastic "Konvenience" Cups and the Earth!
Over 13 million people have purchased one of the famous “plastic coffee-pod” machines...and you're paying over $40 a pound! Here's some important information to consider about these cups and why "creation care" people need to really consider their utilization of these machines!
A Story About King Solomon and Impermanence
“One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, “Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it.”
The Brothers Karamazov Story of the Onion
Once upon a time there was a peasant woman and a very wicked woman she was. And she died and did not leave a single good deed behind.
3 Things to Know About the Zimbabwean Crisis
As tanks roll through Zimbabwe today with the question of Robert Mugabe's presidency and leadership in the balance, it is important to remember the fact that Zimbabwe began as a country only recently liberated from British Colonial settlement.
Stray Dog Theology: Musings of a Divorced Christian Man...
                               I recently acquired a stray dog…at first I didn’t think that this was anything more than me being a kind animal lover and being the...
The Human Trafficking Infographic You Should Know About
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The Business Side of Human Trafficking
For the next 4 weeks, we'll be working our way through various resources on the issue of trafficking and exploitation. We're doing this in conjunction with our aim to support the work of Refuge for Women, a national post-human trafficking and...
The Shocking Statistics of Gendercide
For the next 4 weeks, we'll be working our way through various resources on the issue of trafficking and exploitation. We're doing this in conjunction with our aim to support the work of Refuge for Women, a national post-human trafficking...
A Different Definition of "Culture"
To "culture" means to encourage something to grow. This isn't the definition of "culture" we tend to think of when we employ the word in the terms of 'culture wars' or promoting a separatist and protective stance towards the world....
How Beer Can Change the World (For the Better!)
In Stephen Manfield's wonderful book The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World, Manfield describes the work of the Guinness family as a company built not just on a conviction of quality beer but...
Why I've Had Writer's Block Lately
I've been facing writer's block for the past two years. That's a long time for someone who is an external processor and who has regularly prided himself on being a consistent and thought provoking writer. It's not that I haven't...
5 Great Coffee Mugs for Father's Day Gifts
Below is Drinklings list of 10 GREAT Father's Day Mugs! Use the code FATHERSDAY for 15% off too!!Don't see something here that you like? Check out our entire collection here! And consider lumping your gift in with a bag of...
C.S. Lewis On Reading Old Books
From The God in the Dock "...I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of...
Why Theology Matters (and Doesn't Matter) to Social Justice
..."our confession of faith leads to a deeper reflection on our language. How the church identifies global and social problems shapes its response. Not only is theological language important because it is the most accurate language to use, but it...
Things Pastors Say
Contest Time!!! Actually, two contest times!! First, we're starting a "Things Pastor's Say" line of mugs! Woohoo! We're nerds. We want to know what is your favorite of these below! The top three votes will be made to start our...
Care-Net and Drinklings for Abundant Life
Drinklings is proud to announce that the long-term giving aspect of our LIFE coffee is official, with a partnership with Care-Net. We began our LIFE roast with partnering with Avenues for Women, a Kentucky based Crisis Pregnancy Center affiliated with...
"Life in Christ...Literally..." By: Ben Armstrong
My name is Ben Armstrong. I am currently the Executive Director at Three Dimensional Life in Gainesville, GA. We are a 10-month residential recovery program for teenage boys with addiction. My job is great and I love showing the love...
Forming And Forging For The One...
These past 11 months have been the hardest and yet the most rewarding months of my life since becoming a Christian in 2001. There has been a forming of Jesus in my life over this past year that has taken...
I Lost Count At Twenty-One...
For most people the number Twenty-One has a lot of positive meaning attached to it. It is the age that you can finally drink alcohol without it being illegal. You are really set on the course of adulthood by then...
Issues Versus Movements: Re-Examining Pro-Life
Social movements are always an interesting phenomena. Though some movements have definitive and pivotal moments and figures, it's hard to tell exactly when a movement is birthed and when, in fact, one comes to meet its goals. In terms of...
Abortion, Butt Injections, and Body Distortion
This weeks post is written by our friends at Secular Pro-Life. I had interviewed Secular Pro-Life on a personal blog over a year ago and wanted the opportunity to promote what they're doing here as we have, for the past...