Why a young athlete said no to the NFL (video)
“Football is one of the best things anyone could ever do… but true life — what it means to live — is all wrapped up in the way you follow Christ.” – CHRIS NORMAN
Young children, screen time, and psychological problems.
Young people who spent less than one hour a day playing computer games were almost three times more likely to say they enjoyed good wellbeing as those who played four hours or more, according to the research.
Forbes mag on why every blogger should be on Google+
Google Authorship is a tool that connects authors with their work, and specifically it will display author information (including a headshot) next to search results when surfaced. The Authorship information pulled is connected to your Google+ page.
Trevin Wax on The Brainy Benefits of Being Bilingual
the mastering of the biblical languages or the ability to speak another language fluently isn’t in translation work alone. Instead, the benefit is becoming more at ease with your own language the more you know how it works, and nothing shows you how your own language works better than learning another one.
The Irish poet Seamus Heaney passed away this week. Read his 1995 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. I credit it immediately because of a line I wrote fairly recently instructing myself (and whoever else might be listening) to “walk on air against your better judgement”. But I credit it ultimately because poetry can make an order as true to the impact of external reality and as sensitive to the inner laws of the poet’s being as the ripples that rippled in and rippled out across the water in that scullery bucket fifty years ago.
Six lessons learned while leading a movement.
Lesson #1: Do Not Despise Small Beginnings
Thabiti Anyabwile on homosexuality and your gag reflex.
In retrospect, after an appropriate moment to acknowledge the display of brilliance we’d just been treated to, I should have politely raised my hands and asked, “Do you mean to say we should all accept as normal and good one man inserting the part of his body intended to create life into the part of another man’s body meant to excrete waste?”
How your phone’s number layout could have looked.
Dustin Kensrue’s new song from Mars Hill Music
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