This snippet from the NYT Well blog should encourage you to get whatever exercise you can in these winter months: To learn more about how exercise affects the brain, scientists in Ireland recently asked a group of sedentary male college students to take part in a memory test followed by strenuous exercise. First, the young [...]
Evangelical Gnostics and the Mind-improving Nature of Physical Exercise
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NY Times: Readers Register Discomfort Over “Pregnancy Reduction”
August 30, 2011 By 3 Comments
Those who read about the New York Times magazine story on “pregnancy reductions” (a euphemism for the abortion of one or more gestating babies) on this and other blogs might find this graphic from the NYT interesting. It’s a bit hard to make out (click here for the link to the graphic), but it shows [...]
Why Grades Matter to Christians: A BibleMesh Post
July 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
Why should you care about grade inflation? First, because it’s happening en masse. In a post entitled “A History of College Grade Inflation” on the New York Times Economix blog, Catherine Rampell recently drew attention to the work of Stuart Rojstaczer, formerly a Duke professor of geophysics, and Christopher Healy, a computer science professor at Furman [...]
Sportswriter Bill Simmons Profiled at Length in the New York Times
June 16, 2011 By 8 Comments
Some of you out there enjoy sports, and you read Grantland.com‘s Bill Simmons. Simmons is not a Christian writer; his material can be racy, even gross. If you enjoy thoughtful sportswriting, however, he is tough to beat. I read him with discretion. The New York Times recently published a lengthy magazine piece entitled “Can Bill [...]
The Return of Ralph Reed, and the Prospect of Evangelical Politics
June 3, 2011 By 3 Comments
The New York Times just ran a story on former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed entitled “A Political Revival for Ralph Reed.” It’s worth reading. Behold this selection: Hardly bashful these days, Mr. Reed suggests that his party needs him. He said that “a couple good friends, fairly senior in the party” told him, “You [...]
The Cornerback Who Was Killed, the SI Writer Who Is a Gordon Grad
May 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Do you read long-form journalism? You should. There’s pressure today to make journalism short, to squeeze all such writing into bullet points and text boxes. Surely there’s a place for that. But there’s a massive place for journalists who take on a big story and tell it at length with great skill. Thomas Lake is [...]
Culture Watch: Abortion on “Friday Night Lights”
July 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Some out there have likely enjoyed the honest, well-made show “Friday Night Lights” on NBC. According to an article entitled “On ‘Friday Night Lights,’ Abortion in a Small Town” by Ginia Bellafante in the New York Times, last night’s episode featured a teenage girl deciding to have an abortion. I haven’t seen this episode of [...]
Sandra Bullock’s Dilemma, John Piper’s Decision, and Parenthood’s Complexity
March 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
David Brooks poses an interesting question in his column today: Two things happened to Sandra Bullock this month. First, she won an Academy Award for best actress. Then came the news reports claiming that her husband is an adulterous jerk. So the philosophic question of the day is: Would you take that as a deal? [...]
HBU’s The City, David Brooks, and the Urban Woodsman
February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The City has just published its latest issue in ZMags. If you have never used this web program, check out the site. It’ll take you a minute, but it’s pretty cool. Also, if you are a thinking Christian, sign up to receive The City for free from Houston Baptist University. I read every page in [...]
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