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Friday December 29, 2006

Politics: Angry in the Great White North has unearthed a terrible scandal involving Canada’s Prime Minister.

Du Jour: Dan Phillips has a touching post on “Four faces: gaining perspective for the new year.”

Video: Recover the Gospel is an attempt to collect some of the best video resources available at YouTube and Google Video.

History: Two days from now the U.K. will give the U.S. $83 million, finally paying off their World War II debt. The history of this is quite interesting. An older article at BBC has details.

Books: BibleRhymes tells the stories of the Bibles in rhymes and illustrations.


  • The Anxious Generation

    The Great Rewiring of Childhood

    I know I’m getting old and all that, and I’m aware this means that I’ll be tempted to look unfavorably at people who are younger than myself. I know I’ll be tempted to consider what people were like when I was young and to stand in judgment of what people are like today. Yet even…

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    It’s Okay To Be a Two-Talent Christian

    It is for good reason that we have both the concept and the word average. To be average is to be typical, to be—when measured against points of comparison—rather unremarkable. It’s a truism that most of us are, in most ways, average. The average one of us is of average ability, has average looks, will…

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