I mentioned the “Guy’s Guide to Marrying Well” in Sunday's message. You can find it at this website, where you will find two links: one will take you to a .pdf version of the Guide, and the other will take you to an online flash version of the Guide. I expect the articles in this guide will be very useful for young men thinking about the subject of marriage. If you want to listen to last Sunday's sermon, "How to Find True Love," go to our website.
Michael Hyatt gives you four behaviors to stay on top of email. This president and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers processes about a hundred an hour this way.
I love my iPod; I hate my iTunes. It takes 10 minutes to go through the update, it splashes icons all over the place, it takes up too much space, and it crashes my Outlook program. I’m looking for an alternative to iTunes (Songbird, maybe?).
Are we skittish about race relations or what? That “noose” in a tree at Baylor after the Obama election (that generated a reprimand on CNN) turned out to be the remnants of a rope swing. Oh . . . never mind.
How tolerant are the Tolerant? An 8th grade girl in a Chicago suburb found out when she wore a “McCain Girl” T-shirt to class. (story). James Taranto of OpinionJournal writes, "What can we conclude from Catherine Vogt's experience? That children and adolescents are often cruel and obnoxious, and also that, at least this year, many of them have been smug and self-righteous about their political preferences. The latter trait probably comes from their parents, while the former is in their nature."
In Nebraska, some parents are rushing to dump their teens and older children on the care of the state before lawmakers amend a "safe haven" law that was meant to allow parents to abandon infants at hospitals without legal consequences. Since the law passed earlier this year, five 17-year-olds, two 16-year-olds, six 15-year-olds, two 14-year-olds, three 13-year-olds and eight 11- or 12-year-olds have been dumped. And apparently there's no residency requirement: "Five of the children dropped off have been from out of state." (story)
"Evangelicalism has not died. Or converted to liberalism. But neither does religion belong to the Republican Party. . . . [W]e're certainly not going to be able to figure out the religious ramifications of this election in a matter of days” (Eileen Flynn, Austin American Statesman)
The latest issue of National Geographic has an article on the terrifying and brilliant King Herod. Read it online here. I’ve walked Masada, which is the first photo you’ll see in the article. Unfortunately, NG reflects a typical skepticism of biblical accounts, saying of the killing of infants in Matthew 2 that "Herod is almost certainly innocent of this crime, of which there is no report apart from Matthew's account." The author--no author--gives any reason for the contention that the ruthless king who murdered his own family members to stay in power would be "almost certainly innocent of this crime." So, mind the bias but read the article to get a picture of the kind of world Jesus was born into.
“David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent. Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax.” (story) The real question is why so many immediately took it as gospel and passed it along. And how many other stories have been/will be run without due diligence?
What If You Said Hello to Everyone In Your Path for a Month? Joe Kita in Reader’s Digest describes 11 things you can learn from one small change.
“Psychiatrist Ian Osborn claims the doctrine of imputed righteousness can overcome mental illness” (book review in CT)
The hard-to-peg Camille Paglia in the easy-to-peg Salon explains why Obama’s association with domestic terrorist William Ayers still matters, and why she still likes Sarah Palin. Too many good quotes in this article to single out just one.
“Late Boomers, dubbed ‘Generation Jones’ by activist Jonathan Pontell (because of in-between anonymity and lots of Joneses in popular '70s songs), make up the largest share of the voter pie—26 percent. Despite our size (the peak of the baby boom was 1957, the year I was born), we spent years feeling like generational stepchildren. It was as if we arrived late at the '60s party, after everything turned bitter. But if we weren't convincing flower children (or anti-hippies, like George W. Bush), we weren't part of Generation X either. The Gen-Xers were too cynical. Instead we became the perennial swing voters, with residual '60s idealism mixed with the pragmatism and materialism of the '80s. Even as demographers concluded that generations are really 10 to 15 years, not 20, no one represented us.” (Jonathan Alter in Newsweek back in February). I’ve been writing about this from time to time.
Also: “ThirdAge, an established non-partisan website catering to midlifers, asked 500 people born in 1961 which generation they felt a part of: 57 percent responded to Generation Jones as defined in birth years in the survey, 22 percent reported Baby Boomer and 21 percent said GenX. Further, when asked which generation they believed Obama belonged to, 51 percent responded Generation Jones, 24 percent labeled him a Baby Boomer and 25 percent said GenX." (ThirdAge)
Mommas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pastors:
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