Nuts?
The other day, there was an unusual heist. Touchstone Pistachio Company, in the San Joaquin Valley, discovered during a routine audit that something wasn’t adding up.
More than 42,000 pounds of pistachios had vanished.
Later, the sheriff’s office in Tulare County, CA, said they found the missing nuts and arrested the thief. Alberto Montemayor, 34, was hiding the pistachios in a tractor trailer parked in a nearby parking lot and then repackaging them to sell.
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Promotion!
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. The famous Portuguese professional soccer star, forward for Juventus and captain of the Portugal national team. One of the best players in the world, and though by some to be one of the G.O.A.T.! The man has won the Ballon d’Or award (one of the most prestigious individual awards for soccer players) five times (Lionel Messi of Argentina has won it six times), and the European Golden Boot (presented to the
Fixed!
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (aka the “broken heart” disease) is a sudden weakening of the cardiac muscle in the left ventricle that can be triggered by conditions causing a “broken heart”—death, break-ups, extreme stress. A surge of stress hormones flood the heart during such traumatic events. That causes changes in the heart muscles and blood vessels which prevent the left ventricle from working properly. The result is the heavy, achy feeling people get in the
Milk?
Milk is now good for you. Not just for your bones, but also for your heart.
Or so saith researchers from University College London and University of South Australia in “Evidence for a Causal Association Between Milk Intake and Cardiometabolic Disease Outcomes,” published in International Journal of Obesity the other day.
They pooled data from multiple international studies looking at almost 2 million individuals in the UK and USA. Those with a genetic predisposition
Moving!
Folks, a big announcement:
As of July 1, 2021, I will be on the faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, teaching preaching. After almost a decade-and-a-half teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary, I’m uprooting and moving, lock, stock, and barrel, to ye olde town of Louisville, Kentucky.”
See Southern Seminary’s press release here.
I am grateful for your prayers for the transition and beyond!
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.