Nick Lutz has a unique approach to rejecting an apology. And I’m glad I am not on the receiving end of it. Lutz is a student at the University of Central Florida. After an eight-month relationship, he broke up with a girl who, apparently, felt that she had slighted him and wanted to make things right. So she wrote him a four-page letter to apologize. Hand-written and heart-felt. Lutz’s response? He pulled out a red…
The Shack has finally made it to the big screen. The bestselling 2007 novel hit a crazy, successful streak in 2009, and by 2010 had sold over 7.2 million copies. Now it has reached the rare status of a novel with over 10 million in sales–unprecedented for any novelist, let alone a first-time author like Paul Young. Young drew on personal childhood pain when he crafted this short book that chronicles a man’s horrible loss…
So far, it seems that 2017 is shaping up as the season of comebacks. In January, at the Australian Open, the Williams sisters faced off again, with Serena winning her 23rd major title. And the men’s final also echoed earlier days when Roger Federer, the oldest man on the court at a wrinkly 35, came back to beat his nemesis, Raphael Nadal, in a nail-biting final. And the trend continued February 14 when “Rumor,” a…
Tinder uses it for choosing a date. So why not for choosing a child? Why not have an app that permitted you to scan the cherubic faces of adorable babies, swiping right if you are interested in adopting the child and swiping left if you want to move on? Because, frankly, it’s reprehensible. Thankfully, Christians may not be the only ones who think so. In late January Kickstarter suspended the fundraising account of the “Adoptly”…