This Week's Recommendations

  1. The lesbian seagulls that weren’tMaria Baer reports on when “NPR’s popular Radiolab podcast tries but fails to find homosexuality in nature.”

  2. Multiply your time with this simple frameworkCraig Groeschel with some helpful advice. His first piece of advice is to “Schedule your values. Wise time management doesn’t mean you do more. It means you do more of what matters to you most, so you need to schedule your values.”

  3. Helping children fight fearBekka French begins, “As a child, fear consumed me. I would get up multiple times a night to check the locks in our home. I would check my closet repeatedly to be sure no one was there. Even when I became a believer, I had to wrestle with the reality that Christians are never promised physical safety. We are, however, promised soul safety, a crucial difference.”

  4. Tattoos as confessionJohn Gullet believes, “Tattoos are often a confession in search of a confessor.” I agree.

  5. Guess the literary imageWhich books do these images come from? Lots of fun for fellow book nerds.

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