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The City<\/em><\/a> has just published its latest issue in ZMags<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have never used this web program, check out the site.\u00a0 It\u2019ll take you a minute, but it\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Also, if you are a thinking Christian, sign up to receive The City<\/em> for free<\/a> from Houston Baptist University<\/a>.\u00a0 I read every page in the latest issue, and found a ton of food for thought.<\/p>\n

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David Brooks just published a piece worth reading on the value of sports in society<\/a>.\u00a0 Brooks is pretty positive, on the whole.\u00a0 I would have quibbles with some of his points.\u00a0 I want to read the essay he riffs off of, a piece by Duke University professor Michael Gillespie<\/a> called \u201cDebating Moral Education\u201d from an upcoming title of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Are you an urban woodsman?\u00a0 New York<\/em> magazine documents a new trend<\/a>.\u00a0 (Be careful on that site.\u00a0 There\u2019s some hinky stuff.)<\/p>\n

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Recently, doctors in Belgium found a trace of life in a vegetative patient who had lain comatose for five years<\/a>.\u00a0 Some serious implications for those who advocate the rush to extinguish life in such situations, eh?<\/p>\n

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Carl Trueman, resident critic of evangelicalism, weighs in on the evangelical embrace of tenets and aspects of Catholicism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"