Ursinus Reads USA Today

By Kevin DeYoung
 
I just got back from a mini-mini-vacation with my family. Since I had the weekend off, we loaded up the car early Sunday morning and drove to College Church in Wheaton (four hours away) in time for their 11:00 AM service (and a torrential hail storm). We visited friends in the afternoon and spent the night at a hotel in luxurious Carol Stream (in the same hotel where J.I. Packer once lodged I’m told-oooh!).
 
Around about four in the morning (which was really like 3:00 AM before the time change, but since we were on Central time I guess it felt like 4:00 AM to us, so never mind), our three year old fell out of bed, which prompted our one year old to wake up and cry like she was being dropped off at the nursery.
 
So my wife took a turn. Then around about 5:00 AM I took a turn. While I was hunkering down in the bathroom trying not to disturb the rest of the fam, with my precious little girl munching on Cracklin Oat Bran before the crack of dawn, I started meandering through my complimentary copy of USA Today (yes, it comes to your door that early). The news for Monday morning was grim. Lead story: Americans are becoming less religious. Bottom of page 1: pastor shot during church service. Elsewhere: Obama to reverse ban on federal funding for stem cell research. LAter: stocks may take more than 25 years to recover their losses, once they bottom out that is. For some reason the full page spread on Dancing With The Stars just pushed me over the edge. How can so much be going wrong in the world? …
 
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