Evil for Evil – This is a good and important article about prison rape. “[M]ost of the perpetrators were not other prisoners but staff members—corrections officials whose job it is to keep inmates safe. On average, each victim was abused between three and five times over the course of the year. The vast majority were too fearful of reprisals to seek help or file a formal complaint (emphasis mine).”
Ghosts of WW2 – This person has taken modern photographs and blended them with photographs from World War 2 with very interesting results.
Your Social Media Profile – This seems kind of scary, doesn’t it? “The FTC has given thumbs up to a company, Social Intelligence Corp., selling a new kind of employee background check to employers. This one scours the internet for your posts and pictures to social media sites and creates a file of all the dumb stuff you ever uploaded online.” This makes it harder than ever to escape past misdeeds.
You’re Worse Than You Think – Bob Glenn offers a word to pastors: “One of the occupational hazards of pastoral ministry is that you are often the subject of people’s destructive criticism, gossip, slander, misrepresentation, foolish inferences, ignorant speculations, and the like. And any pastor who’s being honest with himself – even a hard-nosed guy like me – will admit that the hurtful things people say are just that – hurtful. They hurt.”
The Tragic, Ironic Consequences – “Abortion has become the primary means of eliminating unwanted females across the globe. More girls than boys are now being killed by abortion. To kill an unborn female is to kill a young woman. There can be no equal rights for all women until there are equal rights for unborn women.”
Surprising His Sister – You’ll probably cry when you see this. My question is, why? What is it in us that turns on the waterworks when we see something like it?
As creatures, we have no right or reason to expect that at every point we shall be able to comprehend the wisdom of our Creator.
—J.I. Packer
