Links to Your World, Thursday June 19

Woman calls the police because she didn’t get enough sprinkles on her ice cream—and the police published the call.

 

You’ve got smell! Apparently the “scent message” is now a thing.

 

At first I thought this was, like, an Onion headline: UT researchers find that people who say "like" are more thoughtful.

 

Bible verses that atheists love

 

How to talk like an Austinite in 90 seconds

 

“You will, without a doubt, have someone close to you in your family come out as gay or lesbian, if not already, then sometime in the future. How should a Christian parent or grandparent respond?” Russell Moore suggests an answer.

 

He said he aspired in his paintings to portray a world without the Fall; his own life was an exhibit of that Fall.

 

Venus and Mars in the workplace

 

“We have become so used to the way that rock sublimates our spiritual desires that it can be jolting to tune into [Christian] pop music that asks us to make plain what we seek. So much of rock is a spiritual fantasy, a sonic playground for highly secularized religious sentiment. And fantasy, in whatever form, can make the real thing look too real.” I’ve never heard anyone make this claim before, but it’s a tremendous insight into why fans of pop and rock music don’t tend to like overtly-Christian songs in the genre. In Stephen Webb’s First Things post, “In Praise of Praise Music.”