Category: Monday Morning Reading
Morning Reading . . .
A sample of reading this morning that begins with the “Word for the Day” from Gratefulness.org
People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Daily Devotional at d365 this week is based on the theme: Knowing God
Former Oklahoma Teacher of the Year who left for Texas shares his own cost-of-living comparison
Americans are pack rats. Swedes have the solution: ‘Death Cleaning’
Jura Koncius, Washington Post
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
America’s Retailers Have a New Target Customer: The 26-Year-Old Millennial
Ellen Byron, Wallstreet Journal
They survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their neighborhood to the ground
Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Dutch TV Comedy Perfectly Sums Up America’s Gun Problem
Ed Mazza, Huffington Post
The Deep Republican Roots of Trump’s Media Bashing
McKay Coppins, The Atlantic
Monday Reading . . .
Just a few of the articles, and videos, I watch and read Sunday night and today. What are you reading or watching?
Shake Shack founder on changing the way restaurants do business
Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes
America’s Changing Religious Identity
Daniel Cox, Ph.D., Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., PRRI
Souls and the Guns of America
Martin Marty, Sightings
Guns and the Soul of America
David Brooks, The New York Times
Trump picks cultural fights to distract Americans from his policies and their results
Ezra Kline, Vox.com
Richard Thaler Wins the Nobel in Economics For Killing Homo Economicus
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
64 hours in October: How one weekend blew up the rules of American politics
Yahoo News Staff
Gerrymandering only one way U.S. divided – we’re self-segregating politically too
Michael Smerconish, Philly.com
As much as 2.6% of your DNA is from Neanderthals. This is what it’s doing
Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Facebook “embeds,” Russia and the Trump campaign’s secret weapon
Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes