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What We Read This Week


Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!


SUSTAINABILITY

After 139 years, General Electric stops making light bulbs

The problem for GE and for everyone in the business is that they used to be a consumable that had to be replaced constantly; now, quality LED bulbs last almost forever. As prices kept dropping, so did margins…Read Full Article

From treehugger


RELIGION

Far from the Museum of the Bible, these artists use the Good Book as their medium

By paying attention not only to the spiritual nature of the words and sentences in the holy books, but also to the very form of the book, these artists reinvent the sacred texts in new ways. As Hitchcock noted, even Bibles subject to standard use do not remain physically pristine or unaltered. Their pages, she noted, “are stained with the tears and fingerprints of the devout.”…Read Full Article

From RNS


HEALTH

There’s Medicine in Movement

If our jobs aren’t stressful enough, those of us relegated to our rear ends for most of the workday now have to worry all that sitting is killing us…Read Full Article

From Okanagan Woman


COMMENTARY

I’ve Dedicated My Career to Disaster Ministry. Here are 3 Ways Churches Can Be Prepared

It’s time we come together to support reform of sensible gun laws that would minimize access to the kinds of firearms that make attacks of this scale possible. In an international comparison of mass shootings, the New York Times reported that the very presence of guns appears to directly lead to more gun violence. “A New Yorker is just as likely to be robbed as a Londoner, for instance,” Max Fisher and Josh Keller wrote, “but the New Yorker is 54 times more likely to be killed in the process.”…Read Full Article

From Sojourners


SOCIETY

India Declares War on Unsafe Selfies

India’s authorities are out to quash risky selfies, joining other countries like Russia (which has created signs and campaigns to promote safe selfie-taking) and Spain (which has banned people from taking selfies during the annual running of the bulls)…Read Full Article

From npr


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