Christianity Today: Reference Rainbow

What it looks like to graph the Bible's cross-references. (Click image for full size.)

When Christoph Römhild, a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg, Germany, sent Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student Chris Harrison a list of 63,779 cross-references between the Bible's 1,189 chapters, the two became enthralled with elegantly showing the interconnected nature of Scripture. Each bar along the horizontal axis represents a chapter, with the length determined by the number of verses. (Books alternate in color between white and light gray.) Colors represent the distance between references.

The graph won an honorable mention in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science journal.

There are many more fantastic images at the above NSF site.

Greetings!

Another Wed night gathering come and gone. Yours truly still feels lousy- the bummer of having the activty at one's own house - do skipping when you feel bad. Enough whining.
Megan was unaimously elected to take our next study facilitator role. Thanks Bill for taking the ball down the field. Our next get together will be 3 Dec. No get together next week.

The following week will be our annual Christmas party/white elephant present exchange, etc. etc. We can organize (decide?) on 3 Dec.

Please remember to order you book for the start of the new year; we will not meet again after the Christmas party until 7 Jan 09. The Book is: The Spiritual Formation Workbook by James Bryan Smith.

Have a Wonderful Thankgiving.

phil and martha

Next week-Acts 11:19-13:3
Thanks, Karen for leading the group! Thanks Megan for wonderful shortbread cookies! Thank you all for your part in our journey together.

Wed night once again

Hello all,
As Megan has stated, ITS TIME. It's Tuesday but Wednesday is coming! (Have I used that hackneyed expression before? Does it matter?)
Please sign up and bring friends. Expand and see. Given the circumstances, could we discuss politics and religion? I know, Iknow, dangerous grounds- but we're all among friends, right?

For those who have not been around in a while- come and join!

Dinner on Wednesday, 11/5

Thanksgiving's the theme - Phil & Martha have already called dibs on turkey and cranberry sauce. See you on Wednesday!

C.S. Lewis: "The Weight of Glory"

This weekend, Liz passed along to me one of C.S. Lewis' most legendary essays, "The Weight of Glory", published in the early 1940s. It epitomizes many of his characteristic ideas, and made for an interesting discussion.
You can download it here in pdf format.

When/if you read it, read the whole thing. There are several twists and turns throughout the piece.

wed night

Dinner together- with little planning, how about returning to "whatever"? Do we have a theme? What about "food I really like"? phil