Monday, May 1, 2006

Time has come out with their list of a hundred people who shape the world. I'll draw your attention to Mike Brown, professional planet discoverer; Nancy Cox, saving us from bird flu; Jim Yong Kim, saving us from drug-resistant tuberculosis; Jan Egeland, "the world's conscience"; Geoffrey West, the closest thing to a mathematician on the list; and Peter Akinola, the archbishop of Nigeria who

personifies the epochal change in the Christian church, namely that the leadership, influence, growth and center of gravity in Christianity is shifting from the northern hemisphere to the southern.

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