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Mountains that bring prosperity

I wrote a devotional for Goshen College’s yearly Advent devotion series, entitled “Mountains that bring prosperity.” It was released today to go along with the scripture, Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19. Check out the whole series of devotions here– they’re generally pretty

Posted in old blog, Writing

Services offered

I’ve added a new page to the site, Services Offered. I’ve been getting the occasional request for my services, and thought I would put up a listing of some of the things I can offer. If you’re looking for any

Posted in old blog, The Site

Junk for those in need

I was at Kroger’s last night, and saw a table with a couple plastic and paper bags with some groceries in them. A large sign said “Donate food to the needy” or something along those lines. There are bags for

Posted in old blog, Random Ramblings

Letting their voices be heard

I’m currently working on editing the Guatemala piece, and realized that the script is currently twice as long as it should be- not a fun thing to do. So last night I was working on cutting things out, and got

Posted in Guatemala 2007, old blog, Socially Aware Media

Disturbing video from Amnesty

If this video, Waiting for the Guards, isn’t Socially Aware Media, I don’t know what is. Amnesty International is putting out several films like this to show what interrogation (torture) really is like. Just a warning- this is an actor

Posted in old blog, Socially Aware Media

“Sicko” touches bigger issues

Last Wednesday night, I attended a showing of Michael Moore’s “Sicko”, newly released on DVD. It was part of a nationwide showing time, including a conference call with Moore himself. As most of the reviews have noted, “Sicko” is on

Posted in old blog, Reviews, Socially Aware Media

MAMA, Gabriel, and more videos up

I just revamped the video section of the site to include about twice as many videos. I’ve dug up old goodies like Gabriel, and others are some of the more recent projects I hadn’t put on the site yet, like

Posted in old blog, The Site, Video

Apps

ChinStr.apps is a niche hobbyist app development company, specializing in apps for birders and homebrewers and in making Big Data relevant. Read more about ChinStr.apps.