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Life in Four Stages: The Energy of Youth

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Thursday, Mar. 15, 2018

Stephen Hawking, one of the most recognized scientists of the modern age, dies at age 76New York Times (Dennis Overbye) — Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos

The failure of materialism: Why a biblical worldview is the only worldview that can explain the meaning of lifeThe Guardian (Roger Penrose) — 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose

A seminary in turmoil: President under fire after past opposition to homosexuality is revealedPittsburgh Post-Gazette (Peter Smith) — Lutheran seminary faces leadership crisis over president's past LGBTQ beliefs

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Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2018

Personnel changes in Trump administration signal the importance of worldviewThe Washington Post (Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, John Hudson and Carol D. Leonnig) — Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief PompeoThe New York Times (David E. Sanger) — Under Pompeo, a Foreign Policy That Fits the President’s Worldview

An old Soviet plot reappears as Russian espionage looms over BritainThe Wall Street Journal (Wiktor Szary) — U.K.’s May Says It Is ‘Highly Likely’ Russia Was Behind Skripal PoisoningThe New York Times (Ellen Barry and Richard Perez-Pena) — Britain Blames Moscow for Poisoning of Former Russian SpyBusiness Insider (Rob Price and Shona Ghosh) — All the times Russia allegedly carried out assassinations on British soil

Lies speed ahead of the truth according to new scientific studyThe New York Times (Steve Lohr) — It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.Science (Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral) — The spread of true and false news online

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Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2018

Why the loss of frozen embryos is a tragedy infinitely greater than many American's realizeABC News (Associate Press) — 2 fertility clinics respond to egg, embryo storage failuresThe Washington Post (Amy Goldstein) — Fertility clinic informs hundreds of patients their eggs may have been damagedNPR (Bill Chappell) — Fertility Clinic Says Failure May Have Damaged Thousands Of Eggs And Embryos

Surrogate pregnancies and frozen embryos pose new ethical questions The Atlantic (Sarah Zhang) — A Woman Gave Birth From an Embryo Frozen for 24 Years

Has the normalization of marijuana become a matter of social justice?The New York Times (Karen Rouse) — Racial Justice Drives Fight for, and Against, Legal Pot in New Jersey

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Monday, Mar. 12, 2018

Statecraft in the 21st century: What happens when a drama is played out on the world stageThe New York Times (Nicholas Kristof) — President Trump’s North Korea Gamble

How a recent decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals may threaten religious libertySlate (Mark Joseph Stern) — Businesses Can’t Fire Trans Employees for Religious Reasons, Federal Appeals Court Rules in Landmark DecisionNBC News (Julie Moreau) — Religion can't be used to justify workplace discrimination, court rules

The inevitability of the obituary column: the quest for longevity reminds us that there is nothing more certain than deathThe New York Times (Pagan Kennedy) — The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers

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Exodus 34:1-28

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Friday, Mar. 9, 2018

New pressure on CEOs to become social activists presents a unique challenge for corporationsWall Street Journal (Vanessa Fuhrmans and Rachel Feintzeig) — CEOs Choose Sides on Gun Control at Their Own RiskNew York Times (Aaron K. Chatterji) — Our Newest Culture Warriors: Activist C.E.O.s

As corporations flock to sponsor Sydney’s Gay Mardi Gras, activists push backNew York Times (Tacey Rychter and Isabella Kwai) — Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney Goes Corporate, Clashing With Activist Roots

Fifty years after ‘Sex Invades the Schoolhouse’ why all sex education is still moral education. The only question is, ‘Whose morality?’The Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf) — 'Sex Invades the Schoolhouse'

Why a society that tries to look for the good in pornography is a society that has lost all moral senseNew York Times (Stoya) — Can There Be Good Porn?

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Thursday, Mar. 8, 2018

Why America’s double-mindedness is glaringly apparent at the intersection of Down syndrome and abortionWashington Post (Ariana Eunjung Cha) — Babies with Down syndrome are put on center stage in the U.S. abortion fightBBC (Alison Gee) — A world without Down's syndrome?

Prenatal sex selection threatens the very survival of ArmeniaThe Guardian (Suzanne Moore) — ‘We lose 1,400 girls a year. Who will our boys marry?’: Armenia's quandary

A sign of things to come: Mayor of Coronado removes church directory sign over fear of lawsuitsLos Angeles Times (Gustavo Solis) — Coronado's historic church directory sign to be removed amid 1st Amendment concerns

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Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2018

What we learn about the moral tenor of our times in the wake of Nashville mayor’s guilty plea and resignationTennessean (Joey Garrison, Nate Rau, and Anita Wadhwani) — Nashville Mayor Megan Barry resigns from office as part of guilty plea to felony theft charge

Why it’s important to understand that culture produces politics, not the other way aroundNew York Times (Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns) — As Primaries Begin, Divided Voters Weigh What It Means to Be a Democrat

As California proves, the further you get from agriculture, the more liberal the social context growsOrange County Register (Ben Bradford) — Hey, California: Your red-state roots are showing! How state of Reagan morphed into anti-Trump-land

Despite Americans’ claim to rugged individualism, political affiliations are often very predictableLA Times (Mark Barabak) — Why the rise of the independent voter is a political myth

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Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2018

Election results in Italy send clear moral signal at the expense of the European political establishmentWall Street Journal (Editors) — The Italian Indecision

Why we better be careful about assuming it makes sense to jail those who offend us politicallyWall Street Journal (Mike Chase) — Lock Her Up! Lock Him Up! They Could Lock You Up

Why a morally-sane society must consider all the ways in which we can protect our childrenNew York Times (David Leonhardt) — Letting Teenagers Live

As fake video is on the rise, the task of separating truth from lie is increasingly complicatedNew York Times (Kevin Roose) — Here Come the Fake Videos, Too

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