LINKAGES

DAILY CHAPLAINCY LINKS


CHAPEL TOOLS
SACRED CALENDAR: TEC with Texts and iCal | Lectionary Page | RCL | Kalendar | J Kiefer's Biographies | United Nations Calendar |
SCRIPTURE: Bible Gateway | Nave's Topical | Open Bible Topical | World Scripture Thematic Anthology
CYCLE OF PRAYER: DWTX | NAES | Global Conflicts | Hunger and Famine | Global Disasters
HYMNS: The Best 1982 Hymnal site
CALENDARS: TMI School Calendar & TMI Chapel Calendar
DAILY: | Server Form | Server Sheet | Announcements | Sr Talk Form | Prayer RQ Form | Prayer RQs

GOOGLE TOOLS
COMMUNICATE: Classroom | Meet | Chat | Hangouts | Voice/Text | Mail |
CREATE: Drive | Keep | Tasks | Docs | Sheets | Slides | Forms |
MEDIA: Youtube [Nate's Youtube Playlists] [Keep Vid] [Y2mate] [Down Vid] | Photos | Images | Youtube Music | Google Music |
ORGANIZE/FIND: Calendar | Contacts | Maps | Store | Search | Scholar Search

TEACHING TOOLS
OnCampus | Google Classroom
Zoom
EdPuzzle
Nearpod
Poll Everywhere
TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas
TMI Tickets for Technology and Maintenance
Naviance
Random.org: List Randomizer

PRAYERMAP FOR CHRISTARCHY
Christarchy Folder | Prayermap and Topics | Christian Scripture Reader | Diet, Exercise, Health | Spiritual Maps Project |

MORE RESEARCH TOOLS
Kindle Cloud Reader
San Antonio Library
Wikipedia
TinEye: Reverse Image Search
Know Your Meme
Snopes: Urban Myth Research
Fact Check
Politifact
Adobe
Live Stream for TMI

SCRIPTURE, THEOLOGY AND WORLDVIEW


PEDAGOGY AND DEVELOPMENTAL LEARNING [Teaching Vids]
Notre Dame Youth and Religion Survey
• Developmental Charts: Cognitive - Piaget | Social - Erikson | Moral - Kohlberg | Spiritual - Fowler |
• Bloom's Taxonomy Resources: Overview | Charts | Sample Questions

JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE [Teaching Vids]
Accordance: Mac Bible Study Software
The Bible Project [Youtube Channel]
SBL Bible Odyssey: Biblical Backgrounds
Fr. Felix Just's E.N.T.E.R. NT Study resources
Bible Gateway
E-Sword: Free Bible Software
Bible Study Tools
Biblos: Original Language Bible Study
Visual Unit: Charts for Biblical studies and Christian theology

CHRISTIAN HISTORY [Teaching Vids]
Early Jewish Writings: OT, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and More
Early Christian Writings: NT, Apocrypha, Church Fathers
CCEL Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Christian writings and commentaries
Tertullian.org: Featuring Fathers forgotten at CCEL
Archive of Christian History Magazine
Early Christian History Home Page
Early Church: Teaching and Inspiration from the first 500 years (great collection of Cappadocian Fathers!)
Fordham University History Sourcebook
-- On Ancient History
-- On Christian Origins
-- On Medieval History
-- On Modern History

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY & APOLOGETICS [Teaching Vids]
Nate's Theological Writings and Charts (including works of Biblical and Historical Theology, Doctrine, Ethics, Spirituality, and Pastoral Theology, along with my Prayermap and Original Language Bible Reader)
Visual Unit: Charts for Biblical studies and Christian theology
The Catholic Catechism Online
Biologos: Exploring the relationship between Religion and Science
Christian Philosophy
CARM: Christian Apologetics
Apologetics Index: More Apologetics
Christocentric Universal Restoration

WORLD RELIGIONS [Teaching Vids]
World Scripture Thematic Anthology
PDFs of World Religions Comparison Charts
Patheos World Religion Library
• World Religion Demographics: Adherents.com | Pew-Templeton Religious Futures Project [2010]
Wabash Center's Guide to Religion on the Web
BBC Religions Guide
United Religions Initiative: Kid's World Religions Guide
Religion Facts
Resources for Religious Tolerance and Understanding
Encyclopedia Mythica: Mythology and folklore
Squashed Religious Texts
-- Sumerian: Gilgamesh
-- Egyptian: Book of the Dead
-- Hinduism: Bhagavad Gita
-- Buddhism: Dhammapada
-- Chinese Religions: Confucius Analects
-- Chinese Religions: LaoTze, Mencius, and Chuang-Tse
-- Judaism: The Torah
-- Christianity: The Gospels
-- Islam: The Quran

PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS [Teaching Vids]
Squashed Philosophers: Abridged texts of major philosophers
BBC Ethics Guide
Ethical Debate: The Pros and Cons of Hot Button Issues
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [IEP]
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Crash Course Philosophy
BBC History of Ideas
School of Life Western Philosophy
School of Life Eastern Philosophy
School of Life Political Theory
8 Bit Philosophy, Season 1
8 Bit Philosophy, Season 2
PBS Idea Channel
Academy of Ideas

NEWS and MEDIA


FACT CHECKING
Snopes: Urban Myth Research
Fact Check
Politifact
Media Bias Fact Check: Who is funding your news?

LEFT-TO-RIGHT NEWS
Alternet
The Guardian
Huffington Post
NPR
PBS
BBC
AP/Reuters
CNN
Daily Beast
Bloomberg
FoxNews
Drudge Report
Breitbart "news"

RELIGION NEWS
RNS Religion News Service
PBS Religion and Ethics Weekly
On Being
The Other Journal
CNN Belief Blog
Commonweal
First Things
Sojourners
Religion Dispatches
Episcopal Cafe

SHOWS
Nate's Youtube Playlists
SNL
Comedy Central
PBS Video
PBS Frontline
Religion and Ethics Weekly
News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Nova
Animal Planet

MEDIA PROVIDERS
Pandora
Netflix
Hulu
KeepVid
Vimeo
Youtube
FORA: Feed your inner genius

PRAYER, LITURGY, AND HYMNODY


PRAYER AND LITURGY
BCP and other Anglican Prayer resources in PDF
Oremus: Liturgies and Hymnals
Anglican Daily Prayer
Sacred Space Prayer and Meditation
Celtic Daily Prayer
Upper Room Daily Devotions
Ken Collins Explains Liturgy
Nate's Rule of Life and Daily Office: The Prayermap for Christarchy

LECTIONARIES
Episcopal BCP and RCL Lectionary
BCP Text Index
Vanderbilt RCL Lectionary
RCL Text Index
RCL, BCP, Catholic Lectionaries compared
Textweek: Lectionary, Sermon and Liturgy

WORSHIP MUSIC & HYMNODY
The Best 1982 Hymnal site
Oremus 1982 Hymnal
1982 Hymnal by the numbers
The Taize Community: Song and Spirituality
Igrace: Classic hymns revamped

ICONOGRAPHY & RELIGIOUS ART
Learn about Praying with Ikons
Links to Iconography
Matt Stone Iconography

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND OUTREACH


POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
US Declaration, Constitution, Amendments
Find who Represents you in TX and US
POTUS: President
SCOTUS: Supreme Court
US Senate
US House
TX Constitution and Statutes
US Senator Ted Cruz
US Senator John Cornyn
US Rep Pete Gallego, District 23
TX Senator Donna Campbell, District 25
TX Rep Lyle Larson, District 122
TEA State Board of Education
San Antonio TX
SATX Mayor
SATX Council
SATX Councilperson Ron Nirenberg, District 8
Change.org: Make a change

SOCIAL JUSTICE MINISTRIES & ORGANIZATIONS
Change.org: Make a change
Texas Protective Services / CPS
Our Daily Bread, San Antonio
Austin Street Shelter: Helping homeless in Dallas
Kiva.org: Micro-loans that change lives
Help needy children: Compassion International
Help entire villages: Heifer International
Episcopal Relief and Development
Christian Healing: Order of St. Luke
Wondervoyage Missions and Pilgrimages

ANGLICAN-EPISCOPAL TRADITION


OFFICIAL ANGLICAN WEBSITES
The Anglican Communion
The Archbishop of Canterbury
The Episcopal Church
Episcopal Province VII

ANGLICAN HISTORY (GENERAL)
Explaining Anglicans: What is Anglicanism?
Project Canterbury: Cataloging Anglican History
Anglican Library: Online Classic Anglican Writers

EPISCOPAL & ANGLICAN NEWS
Episcopal Life News
The Living Church
Anglicans Online
Church Times
Ruth Gledhill
Church Newspaper

ANGLOCATHOLIC VOICES
Forward in Faith
Anglocatholic.net
Covenant Communion
SSC
Anglocatholic Theologian Francis Hall

ANGLOPROTESTANT VOICES
Titus One Nine
Virtue Online
AAC
AMiA
ACNA

ANGLORENEWAL VOICES
The Alpha Course
Charismatic Episcopal Church
Acts 29 Ministries

ANGLOLIBERAL VOICES
Louie Crew
Anglimergent
Affirming Catholicism
Sacramental Socialists
The Society of Catholic Priests: Sacramental Progressives

PEOPLE AND BLOGS OF INTEREST


CS Lewis: Apologist, Literary Scholar, Mere Christian
Keith Ward: Anglican Theologian of Science
Peter Kreeft: Christian Philosopher and Apologist
NT Wright: New Testament Scholar and Anglican Bishop
John Polkinghorne: Physicist, Theologian, Priest
Stanley Hauerwas: Theologian and Ethicist
Brian McLaren: Emerging Theologian and Pastor
Walter Brueggemann: Old Testament Scholar and Preacher
Ben Witherington: Methodist New Testament Scholar
Peter Rollins: Postmodern Philosopher and Founder of Ikon
John Caputo: Christian Deconstructionist and Philosopher
Rob Bell: Emergent Pastor and Postmodern Theologian
Donald Miller: Emergent Christian and Theo-novelist
Emergent: The Emerging Church Movement
The Pope on Twitter
Pope Francis - Papa Frank
Pope John Paul II Home Page
Thomas Aquinas: The Summation of Theology
Bret Wells: Emergent, Ecumenical, Restorationist
Nate Bostian: Theological Platypus

FUN AND FELLOWSHIP


GAMES & PARTY SUPPLIES
Egad! Fun games for youth and beyond
Party Games for Everyone
Board Games for Any Occasion
Nate’s List of games that don’t stink
Oriental Trading Company - Party, Game, and Carnival Supplies
US Toy Company
Mardi Gras Outlet

HUMOR AND RELIGIOUS SATIRE [remember: it's satire]
Snopes: Fact check that email
Know Your Meme
Ship of Fools
The Onion: America's Finest News Source
The Colbert Report: The Finest News Program anywhere
Cartoon Church
Lark News
A Facebook Haggadah
A Facebook Passion of the Christ
The Holy Observer
The Wittenberg Door
The Wittenberg Blog
Church Sign Generator
Are you rapture ready? Look busy

PERSONAL AND HEALTH


MEDICAL
Chiropractor: Airrosti Rehab Centers

FOOD
Lose It: Weight Loss
Calories Per Hour
Diet Facts

EXERCISE
EXRX: Professional Trainers Info
Live Strong: Lance Armstrong Fitness Site
Scooby's Workshop
Bodybuilding.com
Dorian Yates Online
HIT: High Intensity Training

SHOPPING
Amazon
Kindle Books
Librarything
Ebay
Craigslist

BANKING
Bank of America
Wellsfargo

SOCIAL MEDIA
Nate on Twitter
Nate Facebook
Kim Facebook
Instagram
Twitpic
TinyURL
Dapper: Create RSS feeds

GOOGLE
Gmail
Google Calendar
Picasa Pictures
Google Maps
Google Voice/Text
Google Drive

BLOGGER
Control Panel
Nate's Blog
Kim's Blog: Kimiz Krafts [Alternate URL]
Elise's Blog

INTERNET & DESIGN
Namecheap URL hosting
net2ftp: Web based FTP
Wordle: Word Pictures
Free HTML editor online

WORK RELATED


PLACES WHERE NATE HAS LEARNED & SERVED
The Episcopal Church
Episcopal Province VII
VTS - Virginia Theological Seminary
The Diocese of West Texas
TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas
The Diocese of Dallas
Dallas Bishop James Stanton
Saint Michael and All Angels, Dallas, Texas
Canterbury Dallas College Ministry, SMU, Texas
Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Texas
Church of the Apostles, Coppell, Texas
Saint Nicholas Episcopal, Flower Mound, Texas
All Saints Camp, Lake Texoma
Diocese of Dallas Youth Commission [DDYC]
Compass Christian Church, Colleyville, Texas
Dallas Baptist University Counseling program
University of Texas at Arlington Social Work Program
Juliette Fowler Homes, Dallas, Texas
Zion Church of Kurten Texas
Sheltering Arms Children's Shelter, Bryan, Texas
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Redeemer Covenant Church, Carrollton, Texas
Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Newman Smith High School, Carrollton, Texas

RESUME/CV
Nate's Ministry Portfolio
Nate's CV and Photos
Episcopal Clergy Deployment Office

DWTX
DWTX: Diocese of West Texas
DWTX Ultracamp

EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS
NAES: Episcopal Schools
NAECED: National Association for Episcopal Christian Education Directors
SAES: Southwest Episcopal Schools

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