Horror!
The Wall Street Journal, the other day, touted the values of the season of horror surrounding Halloween.
Lots of people take the deliberate step to scare themselves with scary movies and TV shows, spooky novels and videogames, true crime podcasts, haunted-house attractions and so on.
Apparently all of this has significant benefits!
Declared WSJ:
Fear, or the emotional response to a threat (real or perceived), exists to alert us to danger. When we’re scared, our sympathetic
Science?
Your liver gets fried, they told us. Your brain cells are slaughtered, they reminded us. And so and so forth. The evil agent in question? Alcohol. And there’s scientific evidence for all that. And more.
But now this: “The Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Dementia in Adults Aged More Than 60 Years: A Combined Analysis of Prospective, Individual-Participant Data from 15 International Studies,” published a few months ago in Addiction, by scientists from
Mendacious!
Continuing the theme of lying from one of my blogs from last month …
Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) of Florence, Tuscany, was right after all. Or at least, he was on to something almost two centuries ago. Signor Collodi was the creator of Le avventure di Pinocchio or, as is better know to us, The Adventures of Pinocchio. Pinocchio, the protagonist, was created as a wooden puppet by a carver in a Tuscan village—an animated and sentient puppet! This being—described
Snore!
“Sleep tourism.” Yup, it’s a thing. And growing in popularity, too, CNN reports.
Hotel establishments are now focusing on those potentially hapless clients who may be suffering sleep-deprivation, what with the pandemic, threat of nuclear war, economy, elections, and so forth.
Over the past 12 months, Park Hyatt New York has opened the Bryte Restorative Sleep Suite, a 900-square-foot suite filled with sleep-enhancing amenities. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts recently
Bookstore
The other day, I was interviewed at Southern Seminary’s Bookstore, by its manager, Jacob Percy, about writing, preaching, and whatever else he wanted to ask about.
Here’s the video …
Pill?
Talking of ants and not being a sluggard ….
Good news for those of us who decided—quite reluctantly—that we needed more exercise! Well, we do. But not in the way we thought we did: running like hamsters and generally behaving wildly, sweating and panting, in garments of “athleisure” (with fancy names like Lululemon, Lucy, Lorna Jane, Gap Body, and UnderArmor). Finally, good news for us who hated that kind of working out (though we did love looking like
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.