Links to Your World--Tuesday July 3

Alan Brock is running 900 miles from RunTex in Austin to to the top of Pike's Peak in Colorado. He operates the ministry, Fit2Endure, that promotes the connection between faith and fitness.

An Ivy League professor and expert on forecasting is challenging Al Gore to a $20,000 bet that he is wrong on global warming (here).

Bob Buford writes "Finishing Well," explaining how to transform Success to Significance. His writings have inspired the start of our Second Half Ministry at Hillcrest.

In the UK, a teenager has been banned from school for wearing a chastity ring. British papers are downright nasty on the issue: Martin Samuel at the Times snidely referred to the girl as “Little Miss Pure” and Michele Hanson at the Guardian called her “poor little Lydia.” Sigh.

For anyone with sons or grandsons, especially young ones, you will identify with Mona Charen’s National Review article, “Wild Boys.” (Earlier: Newsweek’s, “The Trouble with Boys.”)

How to Fight Fear with . . . Fear. An article targeted to college students but applicable to anyone facing down fears.

"Our vision is to reach every golfer in every nation,” says Scott Lehman of In His Grip Ministries. Maybe we need to join his vision at Hillcrest.

Anger has a way of coming back to bite you. Just ask the guy went after an enemy with a cottonmouth water moccasin. The snake bit him instead of the intended victim.

In “The Good, The Bad, The Muggly,” Jim Watkins has exactly the same internal debate about Harry Potter that I’ve had over the years.

Using “Allah” as “God” in Conversation.

10 Useless or Even Dangerous First Aid Myths (HT: Presurfer).

Have you read the previous posts this week? They include the "Song of the Week" ("Girl America" by Mat Kearney), response to an anti-creationism blogger, my thoughts on the new Texas grant for filmmakers, an introduction to Courtney Carlson as our new College-and-Career minister, and an invitation to four "Adventures with Tom." To keep up with the journal, sign up for e-mail updates or assign the feed to your news reader or Google Personalized Home Page.