Our family shut down all of our Google related services with the announcement of their new privacy (non-privacy) polices.  Looks like Bing will be our search engine and Hotmail migrated all of our gmail accounts and calendars across, seemingly, seamlessly.  I will remain at swood [at] wearestandrews [dot] com. The Washington Post had this article [...]

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Meet the Marriage Killer From the WSJ: Ken Mac Dougall bit into the sandwich his wife had packed him for lunch and noticed something odd—a Post-it note tucked between the ham and the cheese. He pulled it out of his mouth, smoothed the crinkles and read what his wife had written: “Be in aisle 10 [...]

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In April 1938 war was looming in Europe. Germany had just invaded Austria. C. S. Lewis wrote to his friend Dom Bede Griffiths: I have been in considerable trouble over the present danger of war. Twice in one life – and then to find how little I have grown in fortitude despite my conversion. It [...]

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A very interesting account of a conversation between Steve Jobs and President Obama in which Jobs tells Obama that manufacturing jobs are not returning and why this must be so. Here’s a clip: When President Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with [...]

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A really nice article by Rick Reilly: A man is more than his failings. I learned a lot about Paterno when I wrote a story about him in 1986 for Sports Illustrated. I’ve learned a lot about him since. He was a humble, funny and giving man who was unlike any other coach I ever [...]

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Good article from Christian songwriter Matt Pappa on the state of Christian radio programming: Mainstream Christian radio is altogether banal and shallow in both a musical sense and a spiritual sense.  The songs are man-centered and the DJ’s and radio programmers are man-pleasers . . . they play the songs that will attract the most [...]

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Yesterday marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  Russell Moore offered this pre-anniversary commentary.   Worth the read. In your congregation this Sunday, and in the neighborhoods around you right now, there are women vulnerable to abortionist propaganda, not because they reject the church but because they’re afraid they ‘ll lose the church. Pregnant young [...]

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UPI is reporting that Joe Paterno has died tonight. People magazine has this report. Saw that CBSSports is reporting his death as well while ESPN is saying he’s “near death.”

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From today’s Post & Courier: Tourist-mecca Charleston has landed another accolade. Alongside London, Paris and Budapest, the Holy City, currently Conde Nast Traveler’s No. 1 tourist destination in North America, made travel guide Fodor’s Top 21 places to go in the world this year. Only one other U.S. tourist spot made the list: Oahu in [...]

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