Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Book Review of the Week
What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, by Jonathan Last. Reviewed by Kevin DeYoung. “The basic reason countries stop having children is because they’ve come to see offspring as a liability rather than a source of hope. As Christians, we know better.”
Articles of the Week
How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety, New York Times. I still feel a twinge of sadness when I read about all the things scientists do to those poor little mice, but the results of this study are interesting and relevant. Not only does consistent exercise benefit the body, but it re-fashions the brain to help combat anxiety. My favorite part is that it does so through so-called “nanny neurons.”
Proverbs for Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs, Derek Rishmawy. Why not apply some of the Bible’s more “tweetable” lines to the ethics of Twitter? (Side note: be sure to read the captions of the photos in this post. They may be the best part.)
Are We Being Transparent . . . Or Minimizing Sin? Megan Hill. “We read about spilled milk and overflowing laundry baskets and call it brokenness. We applaud the authors for being messy and raw. But sin is serious, and such posts can blur our understanding of what failure actually is. We warp our perception of sin when feeding my child Cheetos for breakfast qualifies me for worst mom ever.”
Four Reasons Zombies Won’t Die, Barry Cooper. “Zombies stumbled into the cultural consciousness in 1968 when director George Romero released the monochrome Night of the Living Dead. And since then, true to form, they’ve refused to die.”
On The Lighter Side
Top 16 Worship Music Typos, Jon Acuff. “I once was blonde, but now I see . . .”
