Links to Your World, Tuesday January 22

If January 22 could speak, what would it say?


On this 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which discovered a heretofore unknown right to abortion in the Constitution, here are four actions to bring light into the darkness of our culture of death.


Photo Essay of Baptist Mission Work: "It might be on the streets of Zambia or on India's railways, where Christian workers aided children in need of shelter and schooling. Or in a south Asian village, where the only Christian family saw their home burned four times by persecutors. It might be on the border of Syria, where Christians helped a heartbroken Muslim widow fleeing the horror of civil war. Perhaps it means noticing people most others ignore: migrant workers in Thailand who need to hear about Jesus or nomadic herders in Mongolia who need access to clean water. Southern Baptist workers and their ministry partners did all those things in 2012. Click here to see photos of their works of love taken by IMB photographers."


Move over, Manti Te'o. $50 Million Lost To Online Romance Scammers Annually


Smartphone etiquette in the form of vintage posters. Read em all at http://tinyurl.com/acxbhwy.


Gandalf Problem-Solving Flowchart:

I've only recently been introduced to Wendell Berry's excellent writing (through his novel Hannah Coulter and then Jayber Crow). It's disappointing to see his ignorance in this recent slam against anyone opposed to gay marriage. Dalrymple takes his superficial rant apart here.



Taranto: "Republicans outnumber Democrats among Hispanic governors (2-0), Indian-American governors (2-0), Hispanic U.S. senators (2-1) and black senators (1-0)." It's curious, then, that the media script on Republicans is that they're the party of rich while males.