Tim Challies reviews Going Public: Your Child Can Thrive in Public School. This looks like a great book for Christian parents trying to raise Christian children.
This is not a book that is anti-homeschool or anti-Christian school. The purpose is not to convince you that you ought to place your children in the local public school. Instead it seeks first, to show that your children can thrive at public school and second, to provide a parent’s field guide for helping them do just that.
Russell Moore writes on Dungeons and Dragons and the Doctrinal Debates. I fear that we’ve all been here before, and pray that soon we can move on.
Rather than seeking to understand each other, and love one another with a convictional empathy, we claw and bite one another. That’s because, all too often, what we want is to be right, rather than to build up one another in the faith.
A very interesting take from The Scientific American on the pitfalls of positive thinking.
Paint your fantasy in too rosy a hue, and you may be hurting your chances of success.One possible explanation is that idealized thinking can sap motivation, as outlined in a study published earlier this year in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology . Researchers asked college student volunteers to think through a fantasy version of an experience (looking attractive in a pair of high-heeled shoes, winning an essay contest, or getting an A on a test) and then evaluated the fantasy’s effect on the subjects and on how things unfolded in reality. When participants envisioned the most positive outcome, their energy levels, as measured by blood pressure, dropped, and they reported having a worse experience with the actual event than those who had conjured more realistic or even negative visions.
You may be interested to learn about the possible future of an Amazon tablet and why it could be a competitor for Apple.
Whatever device surfaces, a price point under $300 means Amazon would sell the tablet at a loss. But the goal would be to turn a healthy profit from all the digital books, music, videos, and apps sold to tablet users rather than from the hardware itself.
