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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Links to Your World, Tuesday August 27

Being frugal is good for your love life

 

A keyboard that shocks you if you're spending too much time on Facebook.

 

Twenty percent of non-Christians in North America really do not 'personally know' any Christians. That's 13,447,000 people—about the population of metropolitan Los Angeles or Istanbul—most of them in the United States. Story

 

The one easy daily habit that makes life more awesome.

 

What if a psychiatrist could tell whether someone was about to commit suicide simply by taking a sample of their blood? Story

 

"As I wrestled with a theology of suffering, tainted by my 21st-century Western assumption that I deserve a comfortable and happy life, I stopped asking God why and how he could let schizophrenia happen to my family. I knew the answer: We are pervasively flawed and deeply altered by our sinful condition. And faith-filled or not, there is no reason such a thing shouldn't happen in this life. No reason it shouldn't have happened to my family. And someday, when we are each remade as whole and unmarred people, I imagine creation's renewal will be sweeter for people who have suffered the way Mom has. After accepting the truth and tragedy of our collective condition, I started seeing hope and redemption in our experience." Amy Simpson explains what it was like to grow up in the shadow of a schizophrenic mom--and how she came to terms with God in the process.

 

"They were guilty of nothing more than being typical 7-year-old boys. But in today’s school environment, that can be a punishable offense." Why schools have become hostile environments for boys.

 

Related: Finding Our Lost Boys. "The church has skewed ministry to the way many women learn and respond."

 

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