Here’s a fascinating article on the Internet’s role in getting people married. A growing percentage of individuals are starting online relationships that may move toward marriage, though the Internet in all of its capabilities fails to ensure a fail-proof marriage. Read more
Sexual assault is a significant problem within our military, as Lauren Rambo discussed earlier this year. And two recent events serve only as reminders of just how big the problem is. Wired recently acquired a copy of an Air Force brochure on sexual assault that states that, in some cases, it’s better to submit to the attacker. And earlier this week, the Air Force’s chief of sexual prevention was arrested and charged with sexual battery. The Pentagon estimates that 26,000 cases... Read more
One of the things that make the bullying epidemic different from bullying in previous generations is that bullying is no longer confined to the playground or the walk home from school. The internet (particularly, social media) has extended the reach of bullies into the homes of their victims, so that no longer does a child have a respite from bullying. This can have profound effects on children who are the receivers of this abuse, but there is some hope as... Read more
I first saw Denison Witmer perform in the spring of 2006 in some horrible east-of-LA venue. It was the kind of dark place you frequent when you’re fifteen, seeing local hardcore bands, and not the kind of place where you hang out in your twenties listening to 70s-inspired singer-songwriter folky pop, as I was doing. When the show ended, I convinced my fiance that we needed to say hi to Denison. We had decided to play an instrumental version of... Read more
Is it time to lose the label? Maybe. Read more
I’m spending my afternoon doing some writing at one of my favorite coffee shops in Louisville, and I just came across this post on Mashable all about coffee. Because I work in a coffee shop and love serving people first thing in the morning before they’ve had their first cup of java, I get to see how excited people get for that first sip. I see coffee as one of God’s graces to mankind, and I hope these comics brightened... Read more
Guess what? The World Wide Web is now 20 years old! Originally invented by CERN (also the makers of the Large Hadron Collider), the world wide web has changed everything we know about communication, community and humanity. Rich Galen (Writer for Real Clear Politics) gives us the quick story about CERN and it’s original work on the world wide web. (Update: originally said “internet” when we really meant the “World Wide Web”) Read more
Mad Men Recap 6.5: Hoping for Eucatastrophe Michael Ginsberg’s father, Morris, is a holocaust survivor who, in the riotous aftermath of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, is most worried about his son’s perpetual singleness. His bachelorhood isn’t marked by mad philandering, but something more sheepishly innocent. Morris is so concerned that his son find a woman to love that he even sets him up for a blind date without Michael knowing. The date isn’t a total disaster, but Morris... Read more
Ed Morrissey takes a nuanced look at the revised DOD regs on proselytizing. Good on him for not adding to the Todd Starnes scarefest. But I think he’s a little too charitable. When I was an Army logistics officer, there was already pressure on chaplains not to pray “in Jesus’s name.” The military’s tendency towards diversitocracy is real and it’s harmful – all the more reason to get the story straight. Meanwhile, World Mag picks up the story. Read more
It might come at an event when you’re in high school, and the speaker drops the “starving kids in Africa” card, and you’re convicted then of your teenage over-indulgence and self-centeredness. It may come when you spend spring break in Mexico and see the kids you’re ministering to perfectly content with their half-inflated soccer ball and torn sandals, and you return to your house after the trip to give away half of the contents in your closet. Or it may... Read more
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