August 18 Updates

Community Involvement Essential

Nice post by Tim Walters from Trinity:

http://www.postbulletin.com/life/lifestyles/timothy-l-waters-could-med-city-aim-to-heal-u/article_d0939ea8-7814-5b82-aac6-3a121e3b1ed1.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share

Poverty and the Middle Class

Continuing the elevated discussions of economic difficulties of the "middle class"

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http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/the-decline-of-the-american-middle-class/too-rich-to-be-poor-too-poor-to-get-by/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlROaVptVmhNVEl6TldFNSIsInQiOiJSclwvQlhUdzl2OFdtNE9EeGdONTVTQzg0NFJGOTdoS0t1N2Nac1JUR0RiWXA4ZGlOVDRLQXpwWFNoQlRkR1hUanBQaElSSTk5YXVTZjdnQVVzWVRhNUFPUWlVYStNalBpTThRbjlNWm9TRFk9In0%3D

White Poverty

On a related note, here is more about the long-ignored problem of poverty among whites as well as minorities:



http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/?utm_source=atlfb


ideo-evangelicals

This is a term used by evangelicals outside the US to describe those in the U.S. who are voting more for their political ideology than for their faith values.

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/a-challenge-to-my-fellow-evangelicals/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 

Policing in Schools

Given the current discussion in Rochester around the appropriate role of police in schools, this could be relevant:

http://www.citylab.com/crime/2016/08/how-chicago-youth-view-police-from-school-to-the-streets/496454/?utm_source=atlfb

What is "evil" according to Google?

This is an incredibly important resource for discussing the concept of "evil" in today's society:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/what-is-evil-to-google/280573/?utm_source=atlfb

College Reveals Our Hearts

Well-written essay on why the changes many students experience when going off to college are really more just a revelation of their hearts--something that may also be true of all of us when confronting changes in our lives.

Especially quote within the article:

Few have put what college feels like better than Notre Dame sociology professor Christian Smith. He writes,

To an extent matched by no other time in the life course, emerging adults enjoy and endure multiple, layered, big, and often unanticipated life transitions. They move out, they move back, they plan to move out again. They go to college, they drop out, they transfer, they take a break for a semester to save money, some graduate, some don’t. They want to study architecture, they hate architecture, they switch to criminal justice, a different career path. Their parents separate, make up, get divorced, remarry. They take a job, they quit, they find another, they get promoted, they move. They meet new friends, their old friends change, their friends don’t get along, they meet more new people. They get new roommates, their roommates don’t work out, they find a new apartment. They buy insurance, they wreck their car, they cancel their insurance, they borrow a car. They find their soulmate, they get involved, their soulmate dumps them, they are crushed. They believe in saving sex for meaningful relationships, they hook up, they get angry with themselves, they look for a meaningful relationship. They smoke, they want to quit smoking, they quit for some days, they start smoking again. In these and other ways, for emerging adults not a lot in life is stable or enduring. (Souls in Transition, 34)

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/college-doesn-t-change-your-heart-it-reveals-it


On Women and Wine

This is a great essay daring to touch the trend over the past few years to always put wine (or other liquor) in the place of a fun panacea.

http://qz.com/762868/giving-up-alcohol-opened-my-eyes-to-the-infuriating-truth-about-why-women-drink/?utm_source=atlfb

and, possibly related, this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/how-helicopter-parents-cause-binge-drinking/492722/?utm_source=atlfb

Why the Elephant and Blind Men Tale Is Wrong

https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/trevinwax/2016/08/25/3-ways-the-blind-men-and-the-elephant-story-backfires/