High School Athletes Won’t Shake Hands in Post-Game Anymore?
High School Athletes Won't Shake Hands in Post-Game Anymore? According to Fox News, "Kentucky's athletic sanctioning body has ordered high schools not to conduct postgame handshakes in all sports following more than two dozen physical confrontations the past three years."
The Well Balanced (or At Least Occasionally Well Balanced) World Changer
This week some funny Twitter users have been passing around the hashtag #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook.
They insert one new word into an existing book title to make it funnier.
So of course one day I looked in my Facebook feed and saw this:
I laughed. (There's some special irony there since I'm a human-beanpole.)
But really, I could've changed the title myself.
To say, The Unbalanced World Changer or The Re-Balanced World Changer or The Barely Balanced World-Changer. Because ...
Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind Is Not a Wedding Sermon
Paul wasn't talking about marriage at all. He wasn't elevating the love between a bride and groom to some higher standard, where he called us to have this special kind of "patient" and "humble" love with...you know, that one special someone, who we're going to wake up next to every day.
His intention was to define love as it should manifest in life and culture, to friends, family, society, humankind...and probably, he especially meant to impact how people of faith thought about and treated each other (since that is who he was talking to).
When Christians Turn Facebook Into Hatebook
Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives, hosting daily gang wars on Facebook. Hate. Instead of helping people see what's "right," you helped them hate truth instead.
Did all that required high school reading also give you empathy?
The study found that after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone’s body language or gauge what they might be thinking.