Watched!
Apparently, until quite recently, the facilities of Beijing’s Temple of Heaven, an imperial complex of religious buildings constructed in the early 1400s, carried toilet paper. Sadly, thieves began ruining things for everyone. The Beijing Evening News showed TP pilferers making off with rolls of the white stuff in backpacks.
Posters and broadcast messages on public announcement systems exhorting visitors to use less paper have been of no avail. TP keeps disappearing!
Finally,
Opinion!
The Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minnesota, is a well-known non-profit medical practice and research group, employing over four thousand physicians and over fifty thousand allied healthcare personnel. One of the premier institutions in the world of its kind, it attracts many patients who come to Mayo for a second opinion or the confirmation of a diagnosis made elsewhere of a complex condition. Sometimes other doctors send them to Mayo for a consult; at other times,
Dirty!
You got mud on your jeans? Don’t wash it off. It might be worth a lot more now.
[No, I’m not kidding!]
Nordstrom sells them for $425 a pair! Shipped with the mud baked in.
Here’s Nordstrom’s description:
Heavily distressed medium-blue denim jeans in a comfortable straight-leg fit embody rugged, Americana workwear that’s seen some hard-working action with a crackled, caked-on muddy coating that shows you’re not afraid to get down and dirty.”
They’re
Pacers!
Last week, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge came 25 seconds close to breaking a record. Running a marathon in less than two hours. Then guy ran 26.2 miles in 2:25:00 beating the record of 2:02:57 set by Dennis Kimetto (another Kenyan), as well as his own best of 2:03:05. Like Roger Bannister’s breaking the four-minute mile in 1954 (he did it in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds), this one by Kipchoge raises hopes that one of the sporting world’s most formidable (and famous) barriers may
Michael Easley: How I Preach
Michael Easley: And this is How I Preach …
[Michael Easley is the Teaching Pastor at Fellowship Church in Nashville, TN, and the host of Michael Easley InContext, a weekly radio program. He is the erstwhile President of Moody Bible Institute. And his pastoral experience spans more than three decades. A DTS grad, Michael is a preacher at heart and pastoring runs in his veins. I had
Honesty!
You have to admit that we live in a world filled with lies, deceit, and fraud, engaged in by humanity at every level: from the princes to the paupers.
Is there any incentive, though, to be honest? There is!
“Moral Transgressions Corrupt Neural Representations of Value,” say researchers from Oxford and Yale, in a paper published in Nature Neuroscience.
It appears that there is a simple reason to be honest: we feel better about it. Decency trumps deception at a very physical
Guidance!
I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but whenever the rotund despot of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, makes site visits, he is surrounded by highly bling-ed military officers, all carrying tiny notebooks in which they are manically scribbling.
What in the world was going on, I wondered.
He’s watching women conducting a rocket launching drill. Notebooks and pencils. He rolls around a fishery station. Notebooks and pencils. He gives lackeys a pep talk. Notebooks and pencils.
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.