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https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-become-of-the-american-dream-1491521229

After 25 Years Together, Why Marry? Why Not? https://nyti.ms/2p8bsuC

Sleep Is the New Status Symbol https://nyti.ms/2oiUGvw

http://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-food-industry-2017-3

http://faithisntwhatyouthink.blogspot.com/2017/04/preaching-matters-but.html

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/goodbye-evangelicalism/

And what dawned on me was that a great many of these people who had been raised on Scripture, prayer, and Sunday School lacked any kind of cohesive Christian worldview. They knew dozens, maybe hundreds, of Bible verses but could not connect them to larger themes or ideas. The problem is that when ideas about sex or greed or whatever are not grounded in a larger framework, it’s easy to simply discard them. “We don’t practice animal sacrifice as Leviticus tells us, so why should I take what it has to say about sex seriously?” So the minute that a younger Christian faces cultural pressure because of their beliefs, the inclination is to ask “How important is this particular belief?” rather than “Is my entire framework for living going to collapse if I change?” And what I saw was that despite all the Bible study and whatnot, the culture won almost every time.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-world-war-i-unleashed-in-america/2017/04/07/4a8412b4-1b07-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html