Author: Glen

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This is sad news. 

African Nations Surge Up Ranks of World’s Worst Per­se­cu­tors: Mali, Tan­za­nia, Kenya, Ugan­da, and Niger make debuts on Open Doors’s 2013 World Watch List.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

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I should give this to peo­ple in Chi Alpha who say they want to learn how to play.

How to Final­ly Play the Gui­tar: 80/20 Gui­tar and Min­i­mal­ist Music

When will you stop dream­ing and start play­ing? (Pho­to: Musi­cian “Lights”, Cred­it: Shan­di-lee) I’ve always want­ed to play the gui­tar. It start­ed as a kid, lis­ten­ing to my dad play …

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I have been won­der­ing about this recent­ly — I was always taught as a child that the 2nd Amend­ment was about empow­er­ing cit­i­zens for vio­lent insur­rec­tion should it ever become nec­es­sary. This is a very suc­cinct expla­na­tion of how that notion mor­phed into the notion of firearms for per­son­al pro­tec­tion that is preva­lent today.

A his­to­ry of the Sec­ond Amend­ment in two paint­ings

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This is huge.

Wheaton Col­lege Wins ‘Major Vic­to­ry’ Against HHS Con­tra­cep­tive Man­date: Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment makes ‘bind­ing com­mit­ment’ to ‘nev­er enforce’ cur­rent man­date against reli­gious employ­ers.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

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I find the first point fun­ny. “Don’t lie — it will cost you mon­ey!”

What Lying Actu­al­ly Does to Your Brain and Body Every Day

Each day, we make the same choice hun­dreds of times: whether to lie or tell the truth. It often hap­pens with­out think­ing, and we ignore the pro­found impact of these seem­ing­ly incon­se­quen­tial deci­sion…

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File this under “not entire­ly unex­pect­ed obser­va­tions”

When women dare to out­earn men

OF THE many glass ceil­ings con­strain­ing wom­en’s careers, one is par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant yet often over­looked: the wage of the hus­band. In a new paper, Mar­i­anne…

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This is fab­u­lous. I’m a junkie for come­di­ans talk­ing about how they hone their craft.

Richard Browne orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

I love learn­ing about the cre­ative process in oth­ers.

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Is The Lord of The Rings racist? I’ve heard peo­ple sug­gest it before, but this is the first seri­ous dis­cus­sion I’ve found of it.

Indis­tin­guish­able From Mag­ic — (Repost­ed to be reblog­gable!) Any time Tolkien… |

(Repost­ed to be reblog­gable!) Any time Tolkien has south/eastern peo­ple as antag­o­nists, it’s because they’ve been coerced by guys like Sauron (nor are non-white peo­ple the only cul­tures to be…

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Yes.

In Praise of Denom­i­na­tions

Guest Blog­ger: Jason Helopou­los. “We are mov­ing into a post-denom­i­na­tion­al age” or so we are told. If that is the case, I for one don’t think it is good news. Denom­i­na­tions serve a real pur­pose and ar…

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File under “things I had nev­er con­sid­ered”

Why C.S. Lewis Did­n’t Write for Chris­tian­i­ty Today: Carl Hen­ry want­ed more ‘Mere Chris­tian­i­ty’ and direct the­ol­o­gy. Lewis did­n’t.

Carl Hen­ry want­ed more ‘Mere Chris­tian­i­ty’ and direct the­ol­o­gy. Lewis did­n’t.