Uncorrelated Causations

Beginning in 1996, Radio Diaries gave tape recorders to teenagers around the country to create audio diaries about their lives. NPR’s All Things Considered aired intimate portraits of five of these teens: Amanda, Juan, Frankie, Josh and Melissa. They’re now in their 30s. Over this past year, the same group has been recording new stories about where life has led them for our series, Teenage Diaries Revisited.

Here’s our first installment: Amanda Brand is gay. Her family is conservative Catholic, and when she was a teenager, her parents were convinced she was only going through a phase. Recently, Amanda sat down with her mother and father in Queens, N.Y., in the same house she grew up in, to revisit her tumultuous teen years.

Teenage Diaries Revisited: A Gay Teen’s Family, ‘Evolved’

Photo: Radio Diaries (left), David Gilkey/NPR

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cherishing love, extending (and receiving) grace

Something my cousin wrote tonight: “1, cherish your loved ones now, not later, and 2, extend grace to others because you never truly know what someone else is going through.”

Good to be reminded of this as I go into the stretch run of my second semester in grad school. Really busy, yet not busy enough, often feel inadequate, but supported by wonderful classmates, friends, and family. And faith that the Lord’s grace is good enough for me, that those who extend grace to me are doing so genuinely and I am worth the effort, that my standards should not be the same as those who evaluate (or don’t evaluate) me. That being called to live like Mary is not because what Martha did was wrong and Jesus was criticizing her, but because Martha simply had her standards flipped, and Jesus wanted her to enjoy the full extend of his teaching and love.

So thankful that I have loving mentors, and brothers and sisters in Christ to stand and walk with me, and I with them - and all of us with Him who lives in us.

His Love Story: Biblical dating →

hislovesaves:

taken from Boundless

“As Christians in dating relationships, we want to avoid hurting one another and dishonoring Christ by “defrauding” (see NASB translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:6) our brothers and sisters in Christ by implying — through word or action — a higher level of commitment to that…

Interesting… kind of want to explore the “guard your heart” aspect again now that I’m out of RUF and in grad school…

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wwdtm:

This week’s ‘Not My Job’ guest Abby Wambach is really good at soccer!

It has come to our attention that the scientific leaders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital did not have an opportunity, prior to today, to review the findings of the paper entitled ‘Consumption of Artificial Sweetener and Sugar Containing Soda and the Risk of Lymphoma and Leukemia in Men and Women’, to be published in today’s Journal of Clinical Nutrition [sic]. Upon review of the findings, the consensus of our scientific leaders is that the data is weak, and that BWH Media Relations was premature in the promotion of this work. We apologize for the time you have invested in this story.

A statement from Brigham and Women’s Hospital to reporters.

Translation: never mind.

As NBC’s Robert Bazell reported, “Earlier in the week the hospital sent out a press release about the study with the headline ‘The truth isn’t sweet when it comes to artificial sweeteners.’ ” The paper, he said, had been shopped around to six journals before a seventh agree to publish it.

The findings, if you’re still interested in seeing them, are out in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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Just goes to show that anything can be published, eventually.

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I need you, Jesus, to come to my rescue.

Where else can I go?

There’s no other name by which I am saved.

Capture me with grace, I will follow you.

“Rescue” - Desperation Band (at least the version I’m listening to)

Past few days (and especially nights) has been hard in terms of thoughts… midterm in less than two hours. Suddenly thought of this song this morning when I woke up. Capture me with grace, and I need nothing (and no one) else.

Fifteen minutes before “Morning Edition” is beamed to radios across the country, Renee Montagne is ready to record her one-minute introduction. To cue her, the director points his index finger. “Good morning. It was the president’s turn to court Latino voters…”

And she’s off. Here in the soundproof studio, though, “Good night” seems like the more appropriate greeting. It is only 1:45 a.m.

NPR’s “Morning Edition” has one of the most peculiar formats of any morning show on radio or television: it’s split between the East Coast, with the co-host Steve Inskeep in Washington, and the West, with Ms. Montagne. The director cues Ms. Montagne through a videoconferencing system, and the co-hosts routinely add what they call “splits” to their scripts, so that they share the responsibility for introductions and interviews. “We are functionally sitting next to one another,” Ms. Montagne said, yet by staying on separate coasts, they are reflecting the audience’s geographic diversity.

‘Morning Edition’ on NPR, Broadcast by a Team on 2 Coasts - NYTimes.com

A peek “behind the mic” at Morning Edition. — tanya b.

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Love Morning Edition, so much… just wish I could drive and listen in the mornings like my dad and I used to. Maybe when those self-driving cars become more common…

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