You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway’s column on gratitude in Christianity Today. Excerpts: Appearing on Conan O’Brien’s show last year, comedian Louis C. K. lamented how frustrated people get when cell phones and cross-country flights are slow or faulty. “Everything is amazing right now and
Why do most people like white meat better than dark meat? Isn’t the latter juicier and much more flavorful? Do you have dishes that have been passed down in your family from time immemorial? That you must have, even though no one particularly likes them?
The day before Thanksgiving is NOT the busiest travel day of the year. That would be any Friday in June, July, or August. Eating Turkey does NOT make you sleepy. It does have some of that chemical Tryptophan that is a sedative, but not in
G. K. Chesterton writes about ordinary life in a way that always makes me grateful for it. He also writes about gratitude. Here is some of what he said on the subject: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that
In arguments about worship, both sides often cast the issues in terms of “formal styles” vs. “emotional styles.” That has always seemed a false dichotomy. To me, our formal, liturgical Lutheran services are very emotionally moving. Besides, the opposite of “formal” is “informal,” and the
North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing two and wounding 19. South Korea has mobilized its military and is threatening retaliation. The massive artillery barrage launched by North Korea on Tuesday forced its southern neighbor into a state of emergency, with fighter jets put
From an article on the human brain: A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single
Statistical slicing and dicing of the election results shows what I had been saying: Blue-collar workers, who used to be Democrat’s base, are now overwhelmingly voting Republican. Higher income folks are voting for the Democrats. These class dynamics, of course, fly in the face of
I am so glad that my brother started reading and commenting on my blog. In case you missed it, here is more of what he said on that state bank post, in dialogue with tODD: Thank you Todd. It is true that I am new
Charles Krauthammer says that our new folk heroes are coming from airports, from that flight attendant who slid out onto the tarmac to the man who told TSA screeners “don’t touch my junk.” Krauthammer relates the national outrage over these third degree sexual assault patdowns
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