“KENYA: Disasters continue to happen,” IRIN. This article examines the lack of disaster preparedness across East Africa and looks at just a few possible scenarios. One of the biggest challenges facing sections of the world where unreached peoples live is not the increasing number of disasters but the increasing numbers of people living in disaster-prone [...]

“Immigrants Wonder What Arab Spring Will Mean for Them,” New York Times. For those following diaspora peoples, here’s an article about the impact of the Arab Spring on workers in North Africa. This will particularly have an impact on …

“Catch-22 of Xinjiang as a gateway,” AsiaTimes.com. For those who follow news about the unreached Uighurs, here’s a good reference article to the challenges in this region.

“Prices up, living standards down,” TheHindu.com. A reminder that while rising prices can be a nuisance in Western countries, in poorer regions where prices on necessities rise but incomes don’t they can be far more serious. The article interviews one lady whose monthly grocery bill has doubled while the price of cooking gas has gone [...]

“Reproducing Disciples: Are you ready & willing?” Greater Europe Mission. Here’s a touching story about one man evangelizing another. At the end is a brief paragraph in which GEM mentions “Re-revolution training”: “a seamless Biblical discipleship process of faithful steps that can quickly multiply disciples, leaders, new groups and new churches to the 4th generation [...]

“India: Half a dollar a day ‘adequate’, says panel.” BBC. The official estimate is that 37% of India’s population live below the poverty line. Critics of the panel’s number say the amount is intended to “artifi…

Multiplying Short Term Team Leaders. Brigada profiles Team Leader Training by Delta Ministries international. The idea is that you train leaders—who take the tools home and lead trainings themselves. This leads to multiplication. You can ask yourself the question: how is your training/program/activity reproducible by the people you train? Can they train others who train [...]

The 7th element of swarming is Multiplication. To have an outsized impact on a region and to have any chance of achieving its goals (given that most swarmish networks operate close to, or at, “free”), a swarm must be able to scale toward its vision or problem solution: this can only be done through the idea [...]

“Power corrupts, especially when it lacks status,” Science Daily. A new study from the Kellogg School of Management found that people in roles who possess power (the capacity to act) but lack status (reputation, notice, visibility) tend to engage in activities that demean others. This has important ramifications in swarmish, decentralized networks, and in the [...]

“Inerrancy and Infallibility: Truth Claims and Precision,” The Gospel Coalition, Justin Taylor. A very good discussion of the difference between “inerrant” and “infallible” as well as between “true” and &…