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Monday Morning Reading

When I turned 40, I began waking up at 5am for no good reason.  Most days I’m awake at that hour, though I don’t always get out of bed and stay awake.  I’ve begun starting my Monday morning reading.  I do this most days, as well as a bit of writing on whatever project is on the list, but I’m giving Monday morning more time.  I am a bit dyslexic so I read slowly.  Some of my reading are books.  I’m currently working through these:

• Go Set a Watchman
• Born to Run: Bruce Springsteen
• Brave New World
• The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus (re-reading)

Most of my reading each day, probably like you, is my feed silo of news sources via Internet Sites on my computer, my Twitter feed, or pushed from sites to the device I’m carrying.  A new feature of my blog for 2017 is the short list of articles I’ve read, Monday Morning Reading.

Rev. Dr. William Tucker was the Chancellor at Texas Christian University when I was a student.  It seems like a long time ago now.  Anyway, during his commencement address the year I graduated he reminded students that we had been educated to “know how to ask questions” and to “read many sources of information” on our way to making decisions about life and our lives in community.  That is sage advice for every generation and particularly for a time such as this. So, here is the first edition of Monday Morning Reading.  This is the list of articles I completely read and does not include those I skimmed.
The title is the link.

The Provocative Faith of Lady Gaga
By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, The Washington Post

10 Journalism brands where you will find real facts rather than alternative-facts
By Paul Glader, Forbes

4 Ideas Changing the Church for the Better
Growing Young, Relevant

Trump, Clinton Voters Divided In Their Main Source for Election News
By Jefferey Gottfried, Michael Barthel, and Amy Mitchell, Pew Research Center

I Am a Priest, and This Is Why I am Pro-Choice
By Reverend Broderick L. Greer, teenVogue

My dad predicted Trump in 1985 — it’s not Orwell, he warned, it’s Brave New World
By Andrew Postman, the guardian

A Return to National Greatness
By David Brooks, New York Times Opinion

and finally, for anyone in Oklahoma (though I trust you are keeping up with your State legislators)

What Your Legislators Think Is Important
Tulsa World