Google Alerts

Today my lovely sister, Nicole, showed me the joys of Google Alerts. If you don't know about it already, in short, Google Alerts is a system that basically sends you links related to topics that you would have put in a prior request for information.

Its a wonderful thing because I have been needing some kind of (convenient) venue or resource to better explore the things that I'm interested in, and this has been great so far! Today, for example, I was looking at this french blog and randomly clicked on a link to a different online publication called The Huffington Post.

As a life long religion major, it seems, of course I clicked in the religion section first. There were many articles that grabbed my interest, but this one with the title The Surprise of Being a Christian. I found this to be a beautiful article, and I can relate to it quite a bit. The author mentioned that he had to become a theologian in order to become a Christian, which seems very similar to how I came to Christianity, which was a refreshing discovery. That being said, it is a great article, but I laughed when I realized that the author was Stanley Haurwas, who also just happens to a professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity school, and the author of one of my Christian Ethics text books.

Small world? Apparently so. Thanks Google alerts!

This may not (and by that I mean probably won't) interest anyone other than myself, but
Google Alerts is great and you might find some interesting information if you check out those links! :) Not to mention that it will remind me to check them out when I undoubtedly forget about The Huffington Post and Google Alerts in a month.

In other News, I miss France:


Nice, France August 2009