It's football season, which means plenty of weekends full of family visits and stress fill competition involving the Colts and Razorbacks. I personally have no idea what to expect of the Colts this year, as Andrew Luck's ability to win close games borders on breaking the laws of probability. But for today, let's watch Arkansas beat up on Nicholls ( Read more... )

So what makes one religion story 'big' as compared to another? Get Religion examines.

"Like it or not, a “big” story is a story that lots of journalism editors think is a “big story.” They know one when they see one, you see. It’s a kind of instinct that comes from working in newsrooms and reading newspapers for years and years. Does this mean that ( Read more... )

Do you ever open up your home page with news RSS feed, turn on the TV, read the News, etc. and have this strange nagging fear that you're going to see the headline "Everything Blows Up!!" or something to that degree?  Obviously not that level of hyperbole, but I keep dreading reading the news these days, unusually so, I'm not really that much of a ( Read more... )

Some sad news from my old college regarding a teen death at a summer camp. Please pray.

I haven't updated for a long time, and have a great deal to say, but given the somber nature of this post I'm going to postpone that until later tonight. 

Apparently, this is legit.

A wall-mounted gadget designed to drive away loiterers with a shrill, piercing noise audible only to teens and young adults is infuriating civil liberties groups and tormenting young people after being introduced into the United States ( Read more... )

via: YALSA

Anti-Emo violence has recently broken out in Mexico, resulting in subsequent "pro-emo" demonstrations (some strong language in the article.

Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to ... defend emo kids?

A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred ( Read more... )