From CNN.com: So if September 11, 2001, was the day our innocence was taken, then April 15, 2013, is the reminder that it is never coming back. And we do not need the president to say the word to feel the word. It is felt each time we have to take off our shoes at the airport, have an TSA officer pat us down, throw away a tube of toothpaste because it’s over the allotted 3.4 ounces. The FAA temporarily restricted flights... Read more

Kirsten Powers, at The Daily Beast: The column, and the ensuing outrage—and much of the outrage came from people with vaginas despite Carmon’s egregious and divisive claim that it was just the patriarchy rearing its ugly head—was specific to the fact that the mainstream media had not covered the trial of Kermit Gosnell, which started March 18, 2013. I am going to repeat this, because a starling number of people on the left, including New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan, either cannot grasp... Read more

From AP: Anyone with a story here? CHICAGO (AP) – The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year – triple the number just four years earlier. But now the high-tech helper is under scrutiny over reports of problems, including several deaths that may be linked with it and the high cost of using the robotic system. There also have been a few disturbing, freak... Read more

From Brian’s blog: In the world after Easter the Spirit of Truth says, Imagine a world beyond violence, beyond war, beyond greed, beyond poverty, beyond disease, beyond exploitation, beyond the tyranny of economic self-interest, beyond the wreckage of ruthless competition…and move in that direction. Because that is the future! The way civilization has been arranged from Genesis 3 & 4 onward has been according to the lies of Lord Death. But Easter is the declaration that the Prince of Life has overthrown... Read more

The church struggles between two poles when it comes to sexual brokenness: the pole of being right or the pole of denouncing sin and the pole of being merciful or fearing condemnation. But is the church a place for healing sexual brokenness? This is the question being asked in Signpost #8 in Prodigal Christianity. In the chp they bring up a variety of instances of sexual brokenness, including a (non-active) pedophiliac young seminarian who sought guidance for the requirement to serve... Read more

The World as 100 People infographic by JackHagley.   Source. Read more

This list of the top five books for singles is quite the list — in fact, #5 is a stunner. So, I have a question for singles: What book/s most speak to you? Read more

Some of you may know of Daniel Taylor‘s small but evocative and influential The Myth of Certainty, a book that helped me so much at one period in my life. He’s got a new set of ideas about doubt and faith in The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist, and I’m having a hard time to put it down. He’s not just a great writer; he’s writing from the depth of his soul and anguish and faith — all at... Read more