November 24, 2017 | Wood Lake Publishing | 0 Comments

What We Read This Week

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

COMMENTARY

We Could All Use a Little ‘Wonder’

Wonder is a great movie to ponder as Christians begin to head into the Advent season. Advent, though not a festive occasion like Christmas, has its own magic. Advent is the reminder that wonder comes unexpectedly, suddenly, and in the least imaginable places. Wonder opens in theaters on Friday, Nov. 17…Read Full Article

From sojo

FAITH

‘Hilwie’s Bread’

Written by Wood Lake author Carolyn Pogue…In this tricky age of interfaith relations, and outright hatred and fear of those who are considered different, it has been an honour to write about a woman who gathered friends and strangers at her table to share stories, exchange ideas about faith and eat together. I hope that Hilwie’s Bread will help to shed light on a Canadian story of peace, which continues to be lived out today.…Read Full Article

From Ucobserver

OPINION

How Evil Is Tech?

Not long ago, tech was the coolest industry. Everybody wanted to work at Google, Facebook and Apple. But over the past year the mood has shifted. Some now believe tech is like the tobacco industry — corporations that make billions of dollars peddling a destructive addiction. Some believe it is like the N.F.L. — something millions of people love, but which everybody knows leaves a trail of human wreckage in its wake…Read Full Article

From New York Times

HEALTH

A professor of medicine explains why eating fat won’t make you fat- but sugar will

“Eat fat, get fat” has been the conventional wisdom guiding American diets for the past two decades. Yet more and more research suggests that thinking is dangerously misguided…Read Full Article

From Business Insider

ENVIRONMENT

Ice Apocalypse

In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage. Stretching across a frozen plain more than 150 miles long, these glaciers, named Pine Island and Thwaites, have marched steadily for millennia toward the Amundsen Sea, part of the vast Southern Ocean. Further inland, the glaciers widen into a two-mile-thick reserve of ice covering an area the size of Texas. There’s no doubt this ice will melt as the world warms. The vital question is when…Read Full Article

From grist

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