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March 23, 2015
a list apart / design / responsive design
After some personal use, it seems to me that these watch-sized screens are a totally reasonable way to access web content. And it’s equally reasonable for us to present our content in readable ways on these screens.
March 22, 2015
24-7 prayer / prayer / spirituality
Maybe you find it’s easier to pray and praise God when things are going well and harder when your not sure what’s going on.
If you feel like that the practice of Examen may be for you.
There are many different ways to do Examen. This is the way St. Ignatius of Loyola practiced it.
March 22, 2015
psychology / richard-beck / theology
I approach theology as a psychologist. Which means that I approach theology eclectically. Theology, as I see it, is a tool. My main criterion for picking up a bit of theology is utilitarian and pragmatic in nature. The question I ask of theology is this: Will it do the job?
March 15, 2015
24-7 prayer / prayer / spirituality
There are many different ways to do Examen. This is the way St. Ignatius of Loyola practiced it.
March 14, 2015
psychology / richard-beck / theology
All this has affected how I approach theology. Theology, as I see it, is a collection of theories and I’ve been trained to handle theories in a pragmatic, utilitarian manner. I have a what’ll-do-the-job approach. Theology is a tool. So if one theological approach isn’t particularly good at something I set it down and reach for something that seems to work better.
March 13, 2015
a list apart / css / design
This is your guide to creating style breakpoints for quantities of HTML elements, much as you already do with @media queries for viewport dimensions. I’m not pointing at some blurry specification in the distance or a twinkle in an implementer’s eye. We’re going to do this today, with CSS that’s already available.
March 13, 2015
css / design / performance
The idea here is that you can give a massive boost to the perceived performance of the first page load on a site by putting the most important CSS in the head of the page. Then you cache the full stylesheet. For subsequent visits you only ever use the external stylesheet. So if you’re squeamish at the thought of munging your CSS into your HTML (and that’s a perfectly reasonable reaction), don’t worry—this is a temporary workaround just for initial visits.
March 12, 2015
activism / faith / psychology / richard-beck
So the takeaway here isn’t to give up giving a damn. The goal is to reject the “will to purity” and learn to extend grace to yourself in the midst of the fight. And then, in turn, to extend grace toward others. Because we’re all complicit. No one is pure. This is the progressive version of Original Sin.
And that’s not an excuse to give up fighting. Nor is it an excuse to sin so that grace may abound.
It is simply the recognition that the purity culture of progressive Christianity–for privileged and oppressed–will be perennially tempted to marginalize joy, love and grace in its pursuit of the Kingdom of God.
March 12, 2015
a list apart / css / design
This is your guide to creating style breakpoints for quantities of HTML elements, much as you already do with @media queries for viewport dimensions. I’m not pointing at some blurry specification in the distance or a twinkle in an implementer’s eye. We’re going to do this today, with CSS that’s already available.
March 10, 2015
design / forms / user experience
Logging into things sucks. But there are ways to make it suck less.