A La Carte (10/13)

Where Did the Money Go? [2]
This local blog looks at the economic crisis and all the falling portfolios and asks “Where did the money go?” The short answer is…it didn’t go anywhere because it didn’t ever exist.

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True Woman Reflections [3]
After blogging side-by-side with Carolyn McCulley, I was interested to read her reflections on last weekend’s True Woman Conference.

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New @ DR [4]
Mark shares some of what is new at Discerning Reader.

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The NIV Bible Tour [5]
“In may be the largest tour for a new title—a 90-city, 44-state tour called Bible Across America. That is Zondervan’s plan to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the New International Version Bible. A team of four is driving a 42-foot luxury motor home, more than 15,000-miles, criss-crossing the U.S. over the next five months.”

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Interview with Donald Miller [6]
Burnside Writer’s Collective interviews Donald Miller, asking why he has chosen to endorse Barak Obama. “He is also standing up to his own party on the issue [of abortion] and moving the party forward to elevate the issue of the sanctity of life within the Democratic Party.”

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The Pornification of a Generation [7]
From Newsweek: “In a market that sells high heels for babies and thongs for tweens, it doesn’t take a genius to see that sex, if not porn, has invaded our lives. Whether we welcome it or not, television brings it into our living rooms and the Web brings it into our bedrooms. According to a 2007 study from the University of Alberta, as many as 90 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls aged 13 to 14 have accessed sexually explicit content at least once.”

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