Read!
The other day, researchers from the Yale University School of Public Health put out a study in Social Science & Medicine: “A Chapter a Day: Association of Book Reading with Longevity.”
The study looked at 3,635 over-50 subjects divided into non-readers, readers (they read up to 3.5 hours/week), and heavy readers (who read over 3.5 hours/week). Readers and heavy readers survived almost 23 months more than non-readers!
In other words:
Just like a healthy diet and exercise,
Bad?
“Bad” fruit has gotten a bad rap. I’m not talking of rotten stuff, but those pieces of fruit—and vegetables—with cosmetic dents and scars. Ugly f&v are a part of life on the farm. These specimes are perfectly edible and delicious, and just as nutritious as their blemishless fellows. But their cosmetic challenges have relegated them to a position off the shelves of retail grocery stores, and they are consigned to landfills as food waste.
Until now.
Wal-Mart
Sweet!
In the U.S. 33% of adults are overweight, 30% are obese, and 6% extremely obese. That leaves only 31% who have a normal weight or are underweight (BMI under 24.9). Yikes!
No wonder many are on diets of various kinds—Atkins, Zone, Vegetarian, Vegan, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Raw Food, Mediterranean, Paleolithic, etc., etc.
Good news for these folks! Soon these dieters can have their cake and eat it too!
Scientists at the University of London unveiled a gadget recently
Matrix?
Bank of America analysts wrote last month that there is a fifty percent chance that we are all living in a Matrix-sorta simulated world (in that 1999 movie, humans live in a simulated reality created and controlled by machines).
(Of course, they added, that if it were all just a simulation, we would never know about it.)
It is conceivable that with advancements in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and computing power, members of future civilizations could have decided
Genesis 32:1−32
Remembering that God fights for him/her, the child of God lives life with confidence and fearlessness.
Jacob’s encounter with the angels of God and the “camp of God” (Gen 32:1–2) reminds him (and the readers) of the continued presence of God and the protection of God, as he moves with his caravan closer to a rendezvous with Esau, who, when we last heard of him, had been harboring homicidal inclinations towards his heel-grabbing younger brother (27:41). Jacob, no
Strength!
A long time ago, in a place far away ….
Sometime in the early 1300s, somewhere in Toulouse, France ….
The parchment is officially called the “Decretals of Gregory IX,” collections of the Pope’s letters. The volume is striking for its splendid illuminations, characteristic of the medieval manuscripts.
Particularly stunning is a piece of art on one of its pages. This enigmatic figure certainly looks like “a certain little—and powerful—green guy” from the Stars
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.