“When you’ve been pitched head first into hell, you just write about it.” (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, regarding his work as an author. The Nobel prize winner’s death over the weekend showed up as a story on the front-page, top of the fold, in the Statesman. Albert Mohler lets you know why Solzhenitsyn was so important. Also, read his oft-quoted 1978 Harvard commencement address here. It’s still relevant 30 years later.)
The New Republic's cover story on the shifting demographics of urban centers—with wealthy suburbanites moving inward, immigrants and the poor relocating to the outskirts—provides a glimpse of what could be a major change in the American landscape.
“Dear Father, would you erase all these worries from my heart and add them to your to-do list instead?” (“Making a to-do list for God,” in Saturday’s Statesman)
“Target panic, as the condition is known, causes crack shots to suddenly lose control of their bows and their composure. Mysteriously, sufferers start releasing the bow the instant they see the target, sabotaging any chance of a gold-medal shot. Others freeze up and cannot release at all.” (“The Secret Curse of Expert Archers”)
“Yeah, I don't agree with Barack Obama on the Iraq war or on 65-70 percent of his policy positions, but something's got to give. . . . We, the Republican Party, are not worthy and do not deserve another four years. Under President Bush we've betrayed every principle we've stood for as a national party -- fiscal responsibility and discipline, limited government and a foreign policy guided by realism and coalition building. Competence and integrity have no ideology. Obama in '08.” (Why Robert Caron, a Republican, is voting for Obama)
That Gives Me an Idea . . . : “Though he publicly refers to the Worldwide Web as the ‘Worldwide Waste’ and e-mail as ‘sin-mail,’ in his home office is a bank of computer screens with more than 170 bookmarked sites — personal web pages, blogs, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Flickr and more. Each week Alton surfs the sites for hours to find evidence of questionable behavior by people in his church. He jots offenses down and incorporates them into his Sunday sermons.” (“MySpace gives pastor ‘prophetic’ edge”)
“Several recent experiments have shown that people respond to pictures of eyes by altering their behavior in subtle ways, even when they haven’t consciously noticed the eyes are there.” (“Feel the Eyes Upon You,” NY Times)
“Along with 15 colleagues and a reporter, Mrs. Ramirez, a social worker at the facility, put on distorting glasses to blur her vision; stuffed cotton balls in her ears to reduce her hearing, and in her nose to dampen her sense of smell; and put on latex gloves with adhesive bands around the knuckles to impede her manual dexterity. Everyone put kernels of corn in their shoes to approximate the aches that come from losing fatty tissue. They had become, in other words, virtual members of the 5.3 million Americans age 85 and older, the nation’s fastest-growing age group.” (“Simulating Age 85, With Lessons on Offering Care”)
How do you bring the Gospel into conversations with neighbors in a natural way? Joe Thorn suggests 8 topics that can naturally connect to the Christian faith.
100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend.
Every new dad should read “The Parking Lot Rules,” and moms will find the article useful, too.
Strange Bedroom Furniture.
Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has released his “ultimate family DVD list,” compiled from readers’ suggestions. See if you agree with his list, and get some good suggestions for family viewing this summer.
Maybe your “birds and bees” talk with your sons hasn’t gone far enough. In this Reader’s Digest article, a man’s Stage 4 throat cancer was caused by HPV contracted years ago.
Deann Alford of Christianity Today presents and discusses her photos taken in preparation for the latest cover story on NASCAR:
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