Facebook fans do worse in exams: Research finds the website is damaging students’ academic performance.
Predictions are hard to make—especially about the future…
Jonathan Dodson suggests “8 Ways to Be Missional.” Excellent.
"Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek’s original Mr. Spock, made a surprise appearance Monday night in Austin to screen the J.J. Abrams latest installment to the Star Trek franchaise for an unsuspecting audience.” (Wired)
“Time Warner Cable is pushing some fuzzy math to justify its controversial plan to ditch flat-rate broadband subscriptions in favor of a metered approach that effectively charges customers by the bit.” If you use TWC here in Austin, you should give this a read. (Related: “Consumer Group Asks Congress to Investigate Bandwidth Caps”)
“Faith organizations and individuals who view homosexuality as sinful and refuse to provide services to gay people are losing a growing number of legal battles that they say are costing them their religious freedom.” This is a must-read WaPo piece. I may have to do a separate post on this disturbing scenario developing in the Land of the Free.
“America now has two strongly motivated religious armies, each making up about 20 percent of the population — with religious traditionalists on one side and an emerging coalition of secularists and religious liberals on the other. … Meanwhile, the middle is what I call OprahAmerica, a great mass of people defined by a vague quilt of beliefs and emotions.” (Terry Mattingly)
“Religion, like everything else, is polarizing, with the faithful more willing to call themselves "born again" and doubters more willing to call themselves unbelievers or atheists” (John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridgein “God Still Isn’t Dead,” WSJ)
Apparently, it’s not just religion that’s polarizing. A recent Pew poll shows that President Obama is a much more polarizing figure than any of his predecessors for whom such data was gathered. Is it Obama or is our culture slimming in the middle as people separate out to the wings (right and left)?
“America’s dysfunctional health care financing system needs to be reformed. But the goal should not be universal coverage. Reform should simply aim to make health insurance more affordable and portable. Ramesh Ponnuru explains why the “practical,” “moral” and “political” arguments for universal coverage aren’t strong enough.
“The American Heritage Dictionary, Black's Law Dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Webster's have all added same-sex unions to their definitions of marriage….Dictionaries occupy prime social real estate, with significant authority over adjudicating the meaning of words. Courts use them as evidence of societal attitudes and to interpret statutes….Historically, the dictionary, like society at large, had a staunchly heterosexual view of marriage. Webster's 1828 dictionary defined marriage as ‘instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children.’” (Slate)
Read “Vermont’s Quiet Revival,” by Terry Dorsett. We financially support Dorsett’s ministry through our missions giving.
“Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit.” (NYT)
Photographs of great church signs.
Should you use handheld devices in church . . . even if it’s just to access a Bible app?
Here are three articles from the Southern Baptist Texan on end-times viewpoints (For the record: I have been historic premillennial (not dispensational premillennial) since first examining the issue at 19):
What is “Postmillennialism,” “Amillennialism,” and “Premillennialism”?
Experts: Eschatological views varied within bounds of orthodoxy
Humility accompanies profs’ eschatology views
Generations view eschatological doctrines through different lenses, observers claim
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