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I’ve been craving some space related books. . . Any recommendations, I’m desperate 🥲

(Though if I remember correctly, The Center of the Universe isn’t really space related. .you get the point though.)

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As part of the service project, Scouts helped with meal preparation, serving food, organizing supplies and cleanup efforts.

Troop 419 supports community meals through service, donations

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Senator John Kennedy: (quoting Justin Olson):

"God has called wives to be subject to their husbands, and to serve the good of your husband and support his calling."

"What did you mean by that?"

Justin Olson: "In Christian marriage as explained by the apostles, I was describing our church's understanding of what Christian marriage ought to look like."

Senator John Kennedy: "And you believe Christian marriage provides that women have to be subservient to their husbands?"

Justin Olson: "Senator, I think I was either quoting a passage in Ephesians or, or, those are not my words. Those are, those are words in the scriptures I would…"

Senator John Kennedy: "You [difficult to discern] said 'em(?), so, do you believe 'em?"

Justin Olson: "Senator I believe every word of the Bible."

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"Those are not my words..." may be true, but it's also what you'd say when you're acutely aware of how suspect your beliefs about women are in the wider liberalizing and secularizing culture.

In Olson's comments there appears to be a hedging disavowal of responsibility for these beliefs with what you can imagine is an internalized eye of secular, feminist and liberal disapproval, in response to which he then defers to an outside authority, an alibi, the Bible. What can be said without question in a church Olson realizes will face extraordinary scrutiny outside of it.

The reticence that attends this mix of self-explanation and self-exculpation, realizing that it sounds a little self-abasing and even embarrassed by the gospel, then finds its faithful rock of self-assurance in the declamation that "I believe every word of the Bible." "I'm not this sexist that you might think I am, I'm an upstanding man of God."

This is the psychological subtext, or so it seems to me.

Whatever the case, Olson's nomination should be an alarm bell to those who believe in women's equality and secular government. In a religiously pluralistic, secularizing society in which the aspirations of equality have yet to be realized, there should be much stronger resistance to Christian cultists and fundamentalists being in any position of public authority.

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Trump nominates attorney helping lead lawsuits over UPenn, SJSU trans athlete scandals for federal judgeship

President Donald Trump nominated attorney Justin Olson to serve as a federal judge for the Southern District of Indiana on Friday afternoon

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (April 16th, 2019)

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters

The City of Veils by S. Usher Evans 

The Hummingbird Dagger by Cindy Anstey

Last Girl Lied To by L.E. Flynn

Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst & Paula Garner

The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown

Earth to Charlie by Justin Olson

New Sequels:

An Anatomy of Beasts (Faloiv #2) by Olivia A. Cole

Nyxia Uprising (The Nyxia Tria #3) by Scott Reintgen

All for One (Alex & Eliza #3) by Melissa de la Cruz

Happy reading!

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Convinced his mother has been abducted by aliens, Charlie Dickens spends his nights with an eye out for UFOs, hoping to join her. After all, she said the aliens would come back for him. Charlie will admit that he doesn’t have many reasons to stick around; he doesn’t get along well with his father, he’s constantly bullied at school and at work, and the only friend he has is his 600-pound neighbor Geoffrey, and Geoffrey’s three-legged dog, Tickles. Then Charlie meets popular, easy-going Seth, who shows him what real friendship is all about. For once, he finds himself looking around at the life he’s built, rather than looking up. But sooner than he expected, Charlie has to make a decision: should he stay or should he go?

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Tragedy Girls offers smart if tricky take on horror, humor and social media -- a film review

Tragedy Girls offers smart if tricky take on horror, humor and social media — a film review

Courtesy Gunpowder & Sky Just when you think horror filmmakers have run out of ideas, another twist on the genre comes around to surprise you. Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls, a slasher film that satirizes young people’s obsession with social media, is one of those movies. The idea of damsels in distress is turned on its head by magnifying the narcissistic mind-warping power of social media that…

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It was really a bobsledder named Justin Olsen who got my blood pumping early for the Winter Olympics. In 2010, Olsen was part of the first American four-man bobsled team to win an Olympic gold medal in 62 years. Olsen is a Texan through and through -- born in Lubbock, grew up in San Antonio. He went to the Air Force Academy and he’s very funny when talking about how a Texan ends up pushing and riding in a bobsled. But he’s remarkable talking about the feeling of winning that gold medal. He admits that he didn’t really see anything during the run itself -- you never do in the back of a bobsled. The pilot was Steven Holcomb, the other two were Steve Mesler and Curtis Tomasevicz, and Olsen had learned to just trust them all to do their jobs. He remembered the feeling of the darkness as the sled raced through. He felt like they were going fast. He felt like they were going to win gold. And at the end, he looked for the clock. He looked for the time. When he saw it, saw that his team was going to win a gold medal, he tried to get out of the sled as fast as he could so he could celebrate. All he could think of was how much he wanted to celebrate, wanted to share the moment with his teammates. He wanted to remember every single detail. But he said it turned into a blur. The joy, he said, was bigger than he had ever expected. It wasn’t just joy. It was emotion after emotion crashing over him. So much training. So much sacrifice. So much drudgery. So much pain. So much everything. All for this moment. “I felt,” he would say, “like a child. It’s like, you can’t scream loud enough. It’s like you can’t do enough to get it out.”

Joe Posnanski on why he loves the Winter Olympics.