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Monday, November 04, 2013

Daily Links 11-4-13

Do reporters report the news or invent it? What should we make of the fight between Mark Driscoll and John MacArthur? Are we raising a generation of wimps? Answering these and more of life's important questions in today's roundup of links.

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The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals first met in the World Series in 1946. The final game ended in controversy when Johnny Pesky of the Red Sox held on to the ball hit by Harry Walker to drive in Enos Slaughter to win the series. The problem with this story? It didn't happen that way. The sportswriters altered the facts to create more drama. 

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Barnabas Piper is discouraged by the fighting between Mark Driscoll and John MacArthur in the aftermath of the Strange Fire Conference. What kind of message does this send to young evangelicals?

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Are we raising a generation of wimps? Well, yes. We need to do something about it.

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What do they teach kids in schools these days? That is not merely a rhetorical question meant to criticize the state of public schools.

A Pennsylvania woman set out with a video camera to learn what college students in her state know about the Holocaust — and discovered an incredible lack of knowledge not only of the genocide of the Jews, but of basic facts about U.S. history and World War II. 
Rhonda Fink-Whitman visited college campuses in Pennsylvania this fall, including the venerated Ivy League institution the University of Pennsylvania, where she was repeatedly faced with a remarkable ignorance about events that took place in the last century. 
Students didn’t know where Normandy was, why U.S. forces landed there, why the U.S. even entered the war or who was president at the time. (Wilson, Eisenhower and JFK were among the guesses.)  One student didn’t know who Anne Frank was, because he said he never read the book.

Be sure to watch the video at the link for the full story.

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How do you set your priorities and make decisions? Following these guidelines from President Eisenhower can help.

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Kirsten Powers shares how she became a Christian. It's a fascinating article.

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