Open book thread: Literary witness

Read any good novels lately? Chuck Colson hopes that you have. Here's why.

Daily roundup

• "Cuba cracks down, detains 30 in Havana protest"
• "A Biblical View of Social Justice"
• "It's time to commit suicide, virtually"

The god within

Continue to pray

From George Mueller's Answers to Prayer:

Is Crack Worse than Cocaine?

Many are working to bring the disparity in sentencing between cocaine and crack to an end. Pharmacologically they are almost the exact same substance. Personally, I think the disparity should be reduced a bit, but I also think that community-based treatment for non-violent offenders should be used on a much larger scale.

Not with a Bang but a Game Show

When Stanley Milgram did this at Yale in 1961, he became a kind of pariah. Today, they become stars.

Daily roundup

• "Leprechauns"
• "'Come and walk among us'"
• "Your Backyard Mission"
• "Courts Struggle with Same-Sex Divorce"
• "Uncool People Need Jesus Too" (via The Line)
• "National 40 Days for Life Pro-Life Effort Up to 298 Babies Saved from Abortion"
• "How to save a friend from the brink"
• "Great Sex! Flat Abs! And Jesus!"

War of the worlds

William Saletan of Slate observes that we're in a "war between the worlds": the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. The frightening thing is that some of the casualties in this war are not virtual casualties. They're real ones.