According to this WSJ piece, get ready for a slew of big-budget films based on Bible stories.
"What is the single most important year of an individual’s academic career? The answer isn’t junior year of high school, or senior year of college. It’s third grade....It’s the year that students move from learning to read — decoding words using their knowledge of the alphabet — to reading to learn....Third-graders who lack proficiency in reading are four times more likely to become high school dropouts." Annie Murphy Paul explains for Time magazine.
"I’m describing this because I want you to see how it sneaked up on me. Mental illness is like this." A woman's account of her diagnosis.
As a pastor I'm sometimes asked how Christians should think about psychiatric medication. Here's a good answer.
Are cell phones diminishing the ability of adults to give proper supervision to very young children? The WSJ explores.
Funny pics of world's worst dad.
Household spending on cell phone usage is up, even as other household spending is down: "Americans spent $116 more a year on telephone services in 2011 than they did in 2007, according to the Labor Department, even as total household expenditures increased by just $67. Meanwhile, spending on food away from home fell by $48, apparel spending declined by $141, and entertainment spending dropped by $126."
Sounds like the making of a quirky film: Hong Kong mogul offers $65 million to the man who can woo his gay daughter away from her lesbian girlfriend.
"While he has donated as much money to evangelical causes as anyone alive, Green is more humbled by the memory of his parents’ putting their last dime on the collection plate. His father was a small-time preacher who bounced from one tiny congregation to another, eventually landing at a church of just 35 attendees in Altus, Okla., a speck of a town amid a sea of cattle ranches and cotton fields. The family subsisted on hand-me-down clothes and food donations from the congregation, going weeks without having meat to put on the table–but that didn’t stop Green’s mother from donating to the church." From a Forbes story on David Green of Hobby Lobby, one of America's wealthiest men and the evangelical world's biggest philanthropist.
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