After a break for the holidays and the beginning of the year activities I need to get working on my dissertation again. I want to have a good method for taking notes so that they are easy to reference while I am writing. But I have been frustrated by the lack of good software for academic writing.

Maybe the problem is that not many academic types are geeks, but it shouldn’t be this difficult. With my background in computer programming I can envision the ideal software for dissertation writing because I know what is possible. It would have the following characteristics:
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There is a new set of tools being developed to enhance Firefox for use in academic research. It will be interesting to see how this develops, and how useful it will actually be.

Here are some books for recommended reading to go along with the sermon series on The Jesus Way:

• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Gospel According to Jesus, The by John MacArthur
• Choose the Life: Exploring a Faith That Embraces Discipleship by Bill Hull
• The Discipline of Grace: God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
• Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard

I may add more books to this list as the series progresses.

I want to reflect further on some of the issues that came up in my post last week on diversity and community. God’s truth is absolute and universal, but we never receive it in a pure, abstract, culture-free form. The Gospel is always incarneted in a particular cultural context.
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