Austin Moon Tower
Fascinating look at Austin's historic "moon towers."Round Rock is inside the top 15 most romantic cities, according to Amazon data. Wait: Round Rock?
"At every education level, the 25- to 32-year-olds of 2013 confronted a higher unemployment rate than past generations did when they were stepping into the workforce." (story)
What do Downton Abbey, Wendy Davis, TED Talks, and President Obama have in common? They are uncomfortable talking about abortion. Good reading, this.
It's not everyday you get an opinion piece in the NYT basing social policy on a pretty good reading of the parable of the prodigal son.
God changes lives: "Rosaria Champagne Butterfield spent more than a decade of her life as a leftist lesbian English professor specializing in queer theory at Syracuse University. She was in a committed homosexual relationship, served as the faculty advisor for a number of gay and lesbian student groups on campus, and co-authored the first successful domestic partnership policy at the university. In 1999, everything changed. Rosaria had what she refers to as a "train-wreck conversion": she came to Christ and committed to pursuing a life of "holy sexuality"—a commitment to either heterosexual marriage or celibacy. She is now married to a Presbyterian pastor in Durham, North Carolina, where she is actively "living out the means of grace," raising four children, and sharing the testimony of God's redeeming love at churches, colleges, and universities around the world in the midst of one of the most controversial topics in church and culture today." Read an interview.
The largest mental health center in America is jail and the only way to get treatment is to be arrested. "It really is one of those things so rich with irony: The same society that abhorred the idea that we lock people up in mental hospitals, now we lock people up in jails." (Nicholas Kristof, quoting Cook County sheriff, Thomas Dart)
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