by Rhett Smith on February 24, 2010
[image by Adam McLane] When I was called and asked to be a part of the Adventures in Missions YMATH Team, I was told that one of the reasons I was being asked to go was to communicate through my blog, Twitter and Facebook during my time there. In an earlier post Why Haiti? And [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 25, 2009
[image by David R. Carroll] Do you remember what life was like before your cell phone, or before you had an internet connection in your house? It seems like such a long time ago. We even wonder at times how we could have lived life without them. The scary thing is that it wasn’t that [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 3, 2009
The Running of the Salmon When I was in high school my family and I went on an Alaskan cruise, and along the way we stopped at one of the islands to get a tour of where the salmon swim upstream during the spawning season. I don’t remember a lot of details about what I [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 2, 2009
Morse Code-Leno – The funniest movie is here. Find it I was watching this video (which is a few years old), and a couple of thoughts came to mind: I was thinking about how quickly we are to announce the arrival of the latest, and the best new technology. Whether it be the iPhone, Twitter…whatever-you [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 29, 2009
[image by Tom Purves] One of the things about Twitter that I have not quite been able to explain that well is why I think the little details in life that one tweets about (eating cereal, going for a walk, crying after that movie, hanging with friends, etc.) are so fascinating. I can’t tell you [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 26, 2009
This is Post 2/100 in my 100 posts in 100 days series. [image by tboard] Yesterday I asked the question, Is There a Therapy Stigma? If you haven’t had a chance to answer that question…please take a moment to do so, as I’m interested in your opinion on this important subject. One of the things [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 24, 2009
If you have been visiting this blog I really appreciate it. But you may also know that I haven’t been spending much time blogging on this site as I’ve been pretty slow to get into gear. But I have been spending some time reflecting, trying to figure out what would be the most beneficial for [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 10, 2009
[image by Capture Queen] I have been thinking a lot…a lot about Anne Jackson’s recent decision, Saying Goodbye to Facebook. And then yesterday she followed it up with an article at Purpose Driven, Why I Kissed Facebook Goodbye. Something that Anne said in the article really stuck out to me: The ultimate question, for the [...]
by Rhett Smith on January 29, 2009
This is Part 2 of my interview with author and blogger Anne Jackson. Check out Part 1 here. From your own perspective, what is at the root behind the stigma of counseling and therapy in the Church? What would you say to Christians who think that we should not take medications for depression and anxiety? [...]
by Rhett Smith on January 12, 2009
As some of you have been reading on Twitter, I have been in the process of creating a new blog look. In reality, I just watched John Saddington help me create a new blog look. John went above and beyond what I expected…I was looking to just change themes, upgrade my WordPress to 2.7, but [...]
