Haunted?
Hannah-Ireland Durando, 24, a costume designer and actress from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, woke up one morning, having lost her “zest for life.” Tortured by headaches and struggling with forgetfulness. Particularly unable to recall the lyrics to her favorite Taylor Swift song, “Haunted.”
You and I walk a fragile line,
I have known it all this time;
But I never thought I’d live to see it break,
Nicknames?
There was an interesting piece by Mark Oppenheimer in The Wall Street Journal the other day: “Where Have All the Nicknames Gone?”
Nicknames used to abound, reflecting belongingness in a family, echoing a bond between the caller and the named, expressing the warmth of informality. For the longest time, I was “AK,” which then turned to “Abe” when I got to the shores of this nation (that had a famous “Abe” in its history).
Generally such appellations are affirming,
Deliver?
Monash IVF (in vitro fertilization), that operates across Australia, ran into big trouble the other day—its branch in Brisbane.
A couple (that had had an IVF baby earlier) requested their remaining embryos to be transferred to another IVF provider. That’s when the big trouble began. Monash IVF acknowledged in a statement that:
Instead of finding the expected number of embryos, an additional embryo remained in storage for the birth parents.”
Or, in other words, the woman
Healing!
Swiss doctors are doing something unprecedented. Writing prescriptions for strolls in public gardens, art galleries, and museums. Yes, so saith reporters for Reuters.
You got a chronic disease or mental health condition? Yup, take a stroll in a place of art or beauty.
The city of Neuchatel, in western Switzerland, recently launched this pilot project with doctors to help struggling residents and to promote physical activity.
Said Dr. Patricia Lehmann, a Neuchatel doctor taking
2 Timothy 2:14–26
God’s people, his possession, obtain honor by pursuing righteousness and being beneficial for God, ready for good works, even correcting opponents by clearly and graciously expounding the word.
Dealing with the immediate need to counter false teachers, this passage is an explication of the Christian leader’s character in the face of opposition, particularly with regard to doctrine and grounding in Scripture. Yet there is hope for those apostates, for Timothy is to “remind
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.