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Morning Reading . . .
My morning reading settled on a few sites I’ve not visited in a couple of weeks thus drew my concentrated attention.
Why I find The Handmaid’s Tale surprisingly comforting
Kathryn Reklis, The Christian Century
Trump and our damaged public character
Editors, The Christian Century
How to be a purple church in a red state
Brian D. McLaren, The Christian Century
Popular People Live Longer
Mitch Prinstein, Sunday Review, The New York Times
What is “brain hacking”? Tech insiders on why you should care
Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes
Our Abyss
Martin Marty, Sightings
Our Nuclear Future
Jeffery Lewis, The American Scholar
Patty Jenkins fought for one scene in Wonder Woman — and conquered Hollywood’s biggest problem
Todd VanDerWerff, Vox
Figuring Out the Millennial Christian Giver
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today
Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.
Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times
Your Rabbi? Probably a Democrat. Your Baptist Pastor? Probably a Republican. Your Priest? Who Knows.
Kevin Quealy, The Upshot, NYTimes
Morning Reading . . .
Part of my vocational responsibilities is managing our summer camp program. That began yesterday and runs this month. So, most of the Monday mornings this month and next I’ll be busy working with volunteers and away from the time for morning reading.
How Al Franken Got America to Take Him Seriously
Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic
Five things I learned in my first year in the Legislature
Meloyde Blancett, Tulsa World
Youth Global Programme for Sustainable Development and Peace | Youth-GPS 2016-2020
United Nations Development Programme
Nevada’s legislature just passed a radical plan to let anybody sign up for Medicaid
Sarah Kliff, Vox
‘I know what Paul Ryan stands for’: Eighth-grader defends refusal to pose with House speaker
Samantha Schmidt, WashingtonPost
How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science
Coral Davenport and Eric Lipton, The New York Times
Ben Bernanke explains what Donald Trump gets wrong on the economy
Jim Tankersley, Vox