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Posted by Walt Mueller on 7/24/2014
 
What in the world is happening with Tony Dungy?!? That's what I wondered when I logged on to my smart phone to check the news the other day. I'm on vacation. . . a vacation that includes no television (it's been awesome!) and very little time on the Internet (double-awesome!). So the couple-of-days-after-Monday's-Tampa Tribune article left me with only bits and pieces of what's going on in response to Dungy's straightforward and honest response to a reporter's straightforward question about whether or not Dungy would have drafted Michael Sam.
 
Some thoughts. . .

  

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In This Issue

Media Highlights
Notable Album Releases
5 Seconds of Summer

Released Week of
July 22, 2014

Yes - Heaven & Earth
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Anberlin - Lowborn
5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer
La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
Fozzy - Do You Wanna Start a War
Common - Nobody's Smiling
The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo
Kaskade - I Remember
Anti-Flag - A Document of Dissent: 1993-2013


Top 10: Books
The Fault In Our Stars

Best Selling Books on Young Adult List week of 7/27/2014

  1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  2. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
  3. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  4. Paper Towns by John Green
  5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  6. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  7. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
  8. Uncaged by John Sandford and Michel Cook
  9. Where She Went by Gayle Forman
  10. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
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The New York Times

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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
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An article by Walt Mueller from 2002. Youth Culture at the Crossroads
 
He survives a plane crash into the sea - and after weathering four years on an uninhabited island, Chuck Noland is rescued and brought back to civilization. Chuck Noland - played brilliantly by Tom Hanks in the film Cast Away - represents each of us and the options we face on the way to choosing what we value in our quest for meaning and purpose in life...

  

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YOUTH CULTURE HOT QUOTE
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Esther Havens
 
"My hope is that we become a generation focused on promoting others over ourselves."

- photographer Esther Havens, age 30, featured in Christianity Today's article "33 under 33," July 1, 2014.



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