Links to places where the gospel meets culture
Newsweek sure knows how to get a little attention at Easter time. This week's cover story? The End of Christian America.
And here's another provocative article: Has America become numb to tragedy?
Over on the Out of Ur blog, Skye Jethani continues his conversation about the wrong boogeyman.
Ur also has an interesting piece from Dan Kimball about how younger folks are both discovering and escaping liturgy.
By studying fruit flies, researchers have learned an awful lot about why humans need sleep.
In between learning about the genetic patterns of fruit flies, researchers are getting closer to discovering a way for us to manipulate or "edit" our memories. (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, anyone?)
In between learning about the genetic patterns of fruit flies and the genetic patterns of the human mind, researchers are also learning more and more about the power of habits: you can break them, but you'll never forget them. (Stick with the article long enough to read about an experiment concerning popcorn and watching a movie.)
And in between learning about the genetic patterns of fruit flies and the genetic patterns of the human mind and the sad reality of human habits, researchers have also discovered that more and more high schoolers are adopting a vegetarian lifestyle to mask eating disorders.
Though they're trying to save our lives, we tend to make fun of our doctors.
At 115, Gertrude Baines is the oldest person in the world. What's the secret to her longevity? Bacon. And Candy. And watching Jerry Springer everyday. And here I thought those things normally killed people. Especially Jerry Springer.
(And here's a challenging post from Tim Challies' blog that I stumbled on early this morning: Evil as Entertainment. Tim has raised an appropriate red flag concerning a corner in the world of Christian blogs.)
Posted by Brian Lowery at 7:42 AM on April 8, 2009
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