Sep
09
2010
Worth a Look 9.9.10
Americans are missing out on friendship:
Americans, plugged in and on the move, are confiding in their pets, their computers, and their spouses. What they need is to rediscover the value of friendship.
We are at a global inflection point. Half the world’s population is now urban — and half the world’s most global cities are Asian.
Scot McKnight on The Writing Life:
It’s not glamorous; it’s lonely; it’s everyday; it’s a disciplined habit. At the end of the day you might have very little to show for it. Some weeks are unproductive. But after a decade or two, you wander past a bookshelf in a bookstore and say to yourself amongst other browsers, “I wrote that.”
Need to laugh? Take a look at the picture below of Rick Warren and Ed Stetzer, and then click here to see the captions people came up with. (This is the contest winner: With plastic-rimmed glasses, an untucked dress shirt, a bottle of water, two goatees and a satisfyingly awkward side hug, Rick Warren and Ed Stetzer break a new record for “Most Stuff Christians Like Crammed Into One Photo.”)
