Eileen Flynn’s take on the recent Transforming Culture Symposium in Austin. *Sigh* I planned to go but got too far behind in church work to get away.
“Grant High School's class of '82 were raised on 'The Brady Bunch'—while their own families were falling apart. These are their stories—in their words.” Read “The Divorce Generation Grows Up,” this week’s Newsweek cover story. Albert Mohler has a post on the article here.
High School Seniors Get 'F' in Finance
Way Cool: I just read that the Q Conference will be in Austin in 2009. (HT: Chris Marlow)
Seven career lessons you can learn from “The Office” (seriously).
Doug Grouthius has something to say about Oprah’s New Age gospel.
What are America’s favorite books? The Bible tops the list, but it’s interesting to see what made the remaining 9 spots. (HT: World on the Web)
Do some spiritual spring cleaning with a “Soul Sweep.”
Muslims are leaving Islam “in droves.”
Some Advice for Expectant Parents Thinking About Baby Names: “We have a winner in the Worst Bad Name Contest. It wasn’t easy picking a winner from more than 1,000 entries. Besides Charman Toilette, an early favorite of the judges, there was Chastity Beltz, Wrigley Fields, Justin Credible, Tiny Bimbo, and a girl whose father was an auto mechanic but somehow didn’t realize he was effectively giving her the name of a tire: Michele Lynn. There were girls named Chaos and Tutu, and boys named Clever, Cowboy, Crash, Felony, Furious and Zero. There was Unnamed Jones (pronounced you-NAH-med). There was Brook Traut and his daughter, Rainbow. There were more names involving genitalia than the judges cared to count. (Memo to parents: Carefully consider your surname before naming a boy Harry or Richard.)” A name worse than any of these? Click here to find the winner of the Worst Bad Name Contest.
Check out Forgotten Voices, designed to “demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ by equipping local churches in southern Africa to meet the physical & spiritual needs of AIDS orphans in their communities. We are focused on locally developed, locally run orphan care to protect the voices of pastors, community leaders, and the children they serve.”
In “Hope in the Movies,” read one reviewer’s take on “how the films of 2007 showed the error of hopelessness and the source of all hope.” If you haven’t seen the films, the article gives away the plot on all the films reviewed. But there’s some good insight into the real message of films like Sweeney Todd, Juno, No Country for Old Men, Into the Wild, and Lars and the Real Girl (among a few others).
"Hey! I can see my church from here!" “I live in a place called middleurbia. Middleurbia is ten miles north of urban Austin, ten miles south of suburban Austin. My middleurban neighborhood is a mix of young, hip professionals and octogenarians who settled the once-dairy farm back in the 1950s. Pecan groves shade our homes. A public park and a swimming pool hold us together in the center. Two miles to the northwest, plans are being laid for a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a hulking 192,000-square-foot mothership. Two miles to the northeast, the city is installing a shiny new train station and surrounding it with apartments, commercial stores, and a spot of green. I can walk 12 minutes south to a coffee shop, three minutes west to a small Baptist church, 17 minutes north to a mini-mart, barber shop, deli, and acting studio. This is my middleurbian neighborhood.” (Hope Chapel’s David Taylor in Books and Culture’s “The Good City”)
Wow, this woman’s got fears! (And I bet you can identify)
Because "to be a rock and not to roll" is a bummer (HT: The Thinklings):
2 comments:
Hey Tom,
Just stopping by and read through these articles, I like the variety of these links and I guess I need to "get out" a little more.
David Upchurch
Thanks for dropping by David. Give me a call or drop me an email and let's catch up.
Post a Comment