Random links
- Slackers, take heart! Perfectionists more likely to die earlier: study
- "Perfectionism is a virtue to be extolled definitely... But beyond a certain threshold, it backfires and becomes an impediment" according to a professor at Trinity Western University
- How to Avoid a Broken Heart
- A few thoughts from C.S. Lewis
- The Altar of Cynicism
- "People lose their souls to many gods. There are the popular gods like money, sex, and power. But there is one unusual god to which men lose their souls, and maybe that god has seduced more people than any of the more famous or obvious gods that live in our hearts. Cynicism is the god of the thinking person. ... This is where cynicism takes hold: with our realization that nothing or no one can be totally trusted, and we can’t even point the finger of accusation at others because we ourselves cannot be trusted. We must number ourselves among the unfaithful and untrustworthy. Cynicism is the temple to which we finally come after stopovers at the houses of all the other gods. It is the temple at the end of 'temple row.'"
- In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity
- NPR does a piece on Christianity in China