Links to Your World: Tuesday, December 11

Yikes! This organist couldn’t find the right keys to close out a performance of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. I’m told all of the performers were volunteer amateurs--except for the paid professional organist:

Messiah Mess
World’s Most Unusual Christmas Trees

15 Foods that Actually Burn More Calories Than They Contain

This year's Heisman Winner is a home-schooled Baptist missionary kid (Sports Illustrated story; Baptist Press story).

These people are trying to develop the technology--and the nerve--to skydive without a parachute.

Wow: Soldier loses leg; wife enlists to take his place.

“Jesus is in This Car”: This is a must-see news report of a 92-year-old woman who witnesses to her would-be mugger:



(If the clip fails to play, watch it at this website.)
Police Protection for a Christian convert . . . in Britain. “I know the Koran says that anyone who goes away from Islam should be killed as an apostate,” the imam’s daughter said, “so in some ways my family [is] following the Koran.” Muslims in Britain who wish to convert to Christianity “are living in fear of their lives because of Islamic apostasy laws.” I repeat: in Britain. Is this the future of the “free world”?

This helpful website demonstrates how to pronounce words in the English language.

Unhappy? Self-Critical? Maybe You’re Just a Perfectionist.

Have you read the previous posts since last Tuesday? They include the "Song of the Week" (A new series on Advent continues with "Mary Did You Know?" by Kathy Mattea), what to think about a Mormon running for president, Part One in a leadership series on the cure for cultural intimidation, information about an important missions study, more resources for talking about The Golden Compass, and still more jonesin' for an overlooked generation.