Links to Your World--Tuesday Oct 30

Since we're in a Sunday morning study through the 12 Apostles, I thought you might want to know what happened to the 12 Apostles according to tradition.

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Fathers

Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness. Economists and psychologists—and the rest of us—have long wondered if more money would make us happier. Here's the answer.

Fifty-three freeware programs: This guy re-installed Windows and loaded his computer with nothing but freeware. Even if you don’t follow his re-install path, you may find some helpful freeware programs in his list.

Sallie Clingman gives you basic instructions to prepare your “faith story” and present it in a clear and concise way.

Salon reports that “couples are commemorating shattered vows with the same kind of fanfare accorded their marriage -- complete with announcements, parties and even vacation funds.” This cannot be a healthy trend.

Silly Rabbit: Try to get your mouse arrow as close to the rabbit as you can without him grabbing it.

Fascinating story from Wired about a counterterrorist who is a suburban mom

You really need to read this prolife article from the UK’s Guardian. Really.

What? Did you pass up the Guardian article without clicking on it?

The Language of Complaining. By rethinking the way we speak about people and situations, we can change our attitude--and our lives.

Augustine’s Pears: Do we really know how deeply embedded moral corruption is within each of us?

What is Mormonism? A Baptist answer from Richard Land in Time magazine.

10 Smartest Ways to Live Beneath Your Means

A Calvin and Hobbes movie? Oh please, oh please, oh please.

Six Rules of Cultural Engagement

There’s a “secret menu” at most fast-food joints, according to the CS Monitor.

Now that’s what I call a pyramid scheme: “Internet auctioneer eBay has canceled the sale of a purported piece of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Cheops. If the piece is real, it would be illegal to sell, an eBay spokesman says. Zahi Hawass, Antiquities Director of the Pyramids, insists it's indeed not real. "This man could have taken any piece of rock from the desert and claim it was a piece of the pyramid," he said. (HT: This is True)

“Who would have guessed that a president of Borders, a Juilliard School dean, the producer of "The X-Men" trilogy, the world-wide head of television for the William Morris Agency, a host of TV's "Talk Soup" (now called "The Soup") and a former director of marketing at Tommy Hilfiger were all evangelicals?” John Schmalzbauer in the WSJ, reviewing D. Michael Lindsay’s book on influential evangelicals, Faith in the Halls of Power, and commenting on the state of evangelicalism today.

Have you read the previous posts this week? They include the "Song of the Week" (A new series on hymns, starting with "Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy" by Fernando Ortega and Amy Grant), my reaction to the NY Times article about the evangelical "crackup," fun with buzzwords among church leaders, a compelling section from a compelling prolife article, updates on Lori Shepard's mission trip to Latvia, information about our Josh Hunt Conference, and how to deal with truth in our culture (third of a five-part series).