Road Trip + Body Differences + Racism & Sexism + New Study + Comfort Cows

• Today we travel to Little Island Lake, located near Nevis, MN, for a week @ David & Carmen's chalet. We always find this a very relaxing getaway. David & I do a lot of fishing; sadly, not much catching. And I suppose the girls will drag us to a flea market.
• Frankly, it's hard to get worked up about USA women's soccer. Undoubtedly their world championship is a feat to celebrate, but Megan Rapinoe's immature antics make it hard to appreciate. You'd think the World Cup was all about her.

Bodily Differences

As much as transgender activists insist otherwise, sex is a biological reality that carries with it a number of concrete practical effects. Policies that address those realities don’t exist to deny or affirm individuals’ self-identification. Having separate bathrooms and locker rooms for men and women — not to mention separate sports teams — is based on real bodily differences rather than on personal conceptions of “gender identity.” --Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review Online 7/12

Racism & Sexism

One of the glorious things about American culture is the idea that you’re supposed to take people as you find them. Obviously, as a nation and as individuals, Americans haven’t always lived up to this ideal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a worthwhile ideal in the first place.

The notion that all you need to know about a person is the color of their skin still strikes me as close to the definition of racism, whether you’re talking about black people or white people or people of some other hue. If you think you know what a woman is going to say before she says a word simply because you believe all women think a certain way, you’re a sexist. --Jonah Goldberg, NRO 7/12

It Is What It Is?

For anyone plagued by the signs of an inevitably despairing world, the story Jesus embodies affords us a language far beyond impotent coping mechanisms or naïve delusions that ‘we’ can save the world. Rather, we unite ourselves with one who has already set in motion the work of newcreation. Here, it is an inherently Christian task to actively work at unthinking the inevitability of the way things are and to labor accordingly at changing them. Any reflection of truth or goodness or beauty, however abstract, if truly lived out by those who believe them, will ultimately address the concrete matters of life as well. For the Christian, this is a world where nothing merely unfortunately is what it is. Imagining other possibilities, working to unthink the divisions, deceptions, and frameworks that keep us bound to creation’s fall and not its redemption, we join the work of Father and Spirit. We join the Son who takes the abstractions of truth and beauty and declares concretely, “Behold, I make all things new.”  --Jill Carattini, Slice of Infinity


Trending *
* Courtesy of the Babylon Bee, 7/15

• Women's Soccer Team Sues to Overturn Unjust Law of Supply & Demand
• Shocking New Study Suggests Disagreeing with Gay, Trans People Not Same as Hating Them
• New Line of Patriarchal Thermostats Includes "Freeze All Women to Death" Button
• New Study Confirms All Your Opinions Are Correct

Criminal Minds

• "Driver cited for using 30-pack of beer as toddler's booster seat" Drudge Report, 7/13
• "Mom arrested with kids inside inflatable pool on car's roof" ditto

MON Whimsy

• "Move over therapy dogs. Hello therapy cows." Drudge, 7/12

Food for Thought

• "Study:  Eating nuts key to mental sharpness" Drudge, 7/13