By Steve
Friday July 9, 2010
- Speaking God’s Language, with a gangster dialect: Frederick Loos was cussing like a sailor the other night, which was surprising given that he is a Roman Catholic priest and his foul-mouthed discourse was delivered from the pulpit to hundreds of faithful gathered before him. He spoke of God, the need to serve him and how he can transform lives. But interspersed in his sermon was the most colorful of street Spanish, which brought smiles to the faces of many of the gang members, addicts and other young people pressed in tight to listen (NY Times)
- Violent Mexican gang hijacks U.S. evangelical’s book by Alfredo Garcia (RNS)
- U.S., Russia to swap agents: Washington trades 10 spies for 4 prisoners of Moscow; deal settles crisis (Wall Street Journal)
- The end of the road? The concert business, a lone bright spot in the struggling music industry, is in trouble this summer. A tale of bad backs, canceled acts and angry fans. (Wall Street Journal)
- Jonny Lang: the Kid’ at the Crossroads (Victoria Advocate)
- The best advice Warren Buffett ever received: “The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean, you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it — it’s not uncritical love; that’s a different animal — but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it’s going to make for a better human being.” (Yahoo)
- The Rublev Trinity: Iconographic tradition and the individual talent by Daniel A. Siedell
- Gerard Butler to play ‘Machine Gun Preacher’: Biopic to portray Sam Childers, who rescues Sudanese kids while packing heat by Mark Moring (Christianity Today)
- The most beautiful bookstore in the world (Coollist)
- A little economic realism by David Brooks (NY Times)
- SFMOMA fills in some blanks: The riches from the Donald and Doris Fisher collection, entrusted to the San Francisco Museum of Art by means of a renewable 100-year loan, allow the museum to bolster its holdings in an era when modern art is becoming prohibitively expensive to obtain. (Wall Street Journal)
- Crowds flock to vampires (of course) and ‘Airbender’ (surprise!) (NY Times)
- Sumo’s ties to Japan underworld go beyond limits (NY Times)
- Golf and motherhood on conflicting courses (NY Times)
- Remembering how to pray by Monica Rozenfeld (Busted Halo)
- Bill Wilson’s gospel: On Dec. 14, 1934, a failed stockbroker named Bill Wilson was struggling with alcoholism at a New York City detox center. It was his fourth stay at the center and nothing had worked. This time, he tried a remedy called the belladonna cure — infusions of a hallucinogenic drug made from a poisonous plant — and he consulted a friend named Ebby Thacher, who told him to give up drinking and give his life over to the service of God by David Brooks (NY Times)
- Prince: “The Internet’s completely over…The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you...Young People Don’t Have God In Their Lives…” (Mirror)
- Churches adopt adoption: Churches are getting real about adoption’s challenges—and helping families after the child arrives by Carla Barnhill (Christianity Today)
- Abba changes everything: Why every Christian is called to rescue orphans by Russell D. Moore (Christianity Today)
- Female winemakers carve out a niche in Burgundy, France: Until recently, women have been discouraged from winemaking, but in the last decade or so, that’s changing. (LA Times)
- DailyBooth.com builds community through photos: The social networking site encourages users to upload a picture of themselves every day. ‘Boothers’ use snapshots instead of snippets of text to express what they are thinking, feeling and doing. (LA Times)
- American Dream is elusive for new generation (NY Times)
- Can you Feng Shui your life? by Monica Rosenfeld (Busted Halo)
- We love your heart, but…Tattoos and church by Mandy Oliver (Jesus in Shantytown)
- How trustworthy are scientists anyway? By Rod Dreher (BeliefNet)
- Dubitable Darwin? Why some smart, nonreligious people doubt the Theory of Evolution by John Horgan (Scientific American)
- Portrait of the artist as screw-up by Andy Whitman (Image)
- ‘Confucius’ a snooze for Chinese audiences: Film buffs balk at being force-fed a biography about the ancient wise man while access to the prodigiously popular ‘Avatar’ is curtailed. (LA Times)
- Me and my Moon Garden by Anne Marie Chaker (Wall Street Journal)
- Legalization could slash the price of pot 80%: Cost could drop to $38 per ounce if Proposition 19 passes, Rand Corp. researchers say. The tax implications and probable rise in consumption are impossible to predict, study finds. (LA Times)
- They did their homework (800 years of it) (NY Times)
- ‘The Facebook Effect’ reveals story of company’s founding (LA Times)
- Lady Gaga has a Facebook first, acquires 10 million fans (LA Times)
- Hells Angel Sonny Barger’s guide to motorcycling: He spreads the gospel of two wheels in his sixth book, ‘Let’s Ride’ (LA Times)
- ‘Mad Men’ siren Christina Hendricks has her eyes on the prize in our Q&A (LA Times)
- What Works: More on meditation for Christians: Currents tapes a segment with Busted Halo columnist Phil Fox Rose’s Centering Prayer group in New York (Busted Halo)
- What Works: Talking with God: Deepening your personal relationship with God through conversational prayer by Phil Fox Rose (Busted Halo)
- Religiously dissing America’s Independence Day by Mark Tooley (American Spectator)
- Bela Lugosi’s dead: Vampire history, from scary monster to sexy beast by Lindsay Eanet (Paste)
- Czechmates: These political figures star in their own racy calendar. New Women in Parliament push boundaries of taste; Ms. September’s Feminism (Wall Street Journal)
- Slain by the spirit: The rise of Christian fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa (Economist)
- Why LeBron James should be thanking the people who are burning his jersey (NPR)
- On family beach vacations, text-loving teens stay plugged in (Washington Post)
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