A word cloud of the words women most use on Facebook:
...and men:
Sermon Illustration Alert: In some parts of the world, people change their names in hopes of changing their lives.
What will we do with Earth's remaining 19 years?
"'Silence is like scouring sand,' he says. 'When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant.' What is left is what is real—pure awareness, and the very hardest questions." Here's a fascinating story about one man's quest to preserve a little spot of wilderness where there is no human-generated noise.
"There are times to speak up, particularly when issues of justice are involved, but an endless stream of calling people fools or liars -- people whom your neighbor voted for -- just does not make sense for the Christian. Unless, of course, you just want to preach to the choir and not reach the unchurched. The end result is another stumbling block for those we are trying to reach." You should read this post by Ed Stetzer.
The Atlantic: "Stable marriage and community are the secret sauce of economic well-being that nobody on the left wants to admit to using"
Churchgoing youth are 70 percent more likely to enroll in college than unaffiliated peers, research finds.
Reasons for caution against "assisted suicide" measures: "My problem, ultimately, is this: I’ve lived so close to death for so long that I know how thin and porous the border between coercion and free choice is, how easy it is for someone to inadvertently influence you to feel devalued and hopeless — to pressure you ever so slightly but decidedly into being “reasonable,” to unburdening others, to “letting go.” Perhaps, as advocates contend, you can’t understand why anyone would push for assisted-suicide legislation until you’ve seen a loved one suffer. But you also can’t truly conceive of the many subtle forces — invariably well meaning, kindhearted, even gentle, yet as persuasive as a tsunami — that emerge when your physical autonomy is hopelessly compromised....Advocates of Death With Dignity laws who say that patients themselves should decide whether to live or die are fantasizing. Who chooses suicide in a vacuum? We are inexorably affected by our immediate environment. The deck is stacked." Ben Mattlin for the NY Times
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