12 Obsolete Technologies that Americans Still Use
Texas Bible converts "you" to "y'all." I've always thought the Southernism was superior to requiring the word "you" to cover you singular as well as you plural. And, non-Southerners could learn something from the late great Lew Grizzard: "Y'all" is not used when Southerners are referencing just one person.
"Perhaps the pope making saints out of the hundreds of brave men [in Italy's Otranto] who six centuries ago gave up their lives rather than experience forced conversion to Islam will remind cynical secular historians that the religious fanatics aren't always the people who die for their faith. Sometimes the fanatics are the people who kill them." (Charlotte Allen in the WSJ)
Award-winning short, "The Coffinmaker." I like the idea that handles on a coffin represent that we are meant to carry each other:
With the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston this week, here are 9 Things You Should Know About Southern Baptists.
Related: A Primer on the Southern Baptist Convention, Part 1, Part 2
"In Norway — one of the most secular nations in an increasingly godless Europe — the runaway popularity of the Bible has caught the country by surprise. The Scriptures, in a new Norwegian language version, even outpaced 'Fifty Shades of Grey' to become Norway’s best-selling book" (AP story).
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