Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week.

Where can we find God in the wake of the Nepal earthquake?

While I empathize with Tony’s revulsion at those who preach a God whose morality bears no resemblance to our own and who is the direct cause behind every natural disaster and tragedy that befalls us, I agree with Hart:

To preach instead a companionable, changing God who suffers with us (and is changed by that suffering) is to give meaning to suffering and evil.

The Moving to Opportunity project seeks to help those in poverty:

Some economists who have seen the new study say that it argues for a new approach to housing policy. Current policy often forces the parents of young children onto waiting lists for housing vouchers. It also gives tax incentives to developers who build in poor neighborhoods, rather than rewarding those who build affordable housing in areas that seem to offer better environments.

In case you missed it, 54 facts about Star Wars: The Force Awakens:

26. The apparent villain of “The Force Awakens” is named Kylo Ren.
27. Kylo Ren’s lightsaber bears the signature red beam of a Sith lord, along with two smaller beams that seem to act as a hilt.
28. The desert planet seen in both teaser trailers for “The Force Awakens” is not Tatooine, the home planet of Anakin and Luke Skywalker.
29. On the contrary, the planet is called Jakku, a fact revealed at Star Wars Celebration last month

What if a restaurant billed you the same way hospitals do?

The waiter provided a greeting? That will be 43 cents. Asking if everything is okay? Another 62 cents. Serving the food would cost an additional $1.64. Anything ranging from the chair you sat in to the utensils you used and your trip to the bathroom would come with a charge.

Kevin Hargaden, a former TOJ contributor, writes about marriage:

Biblical marriage talk shouldn’t lead to a conclusion where we talk about ourselves. Biblical marriage should lead us to pay attention to God.

I am not opposed to us wading into public squares and getting all hypostatic about our unions. We should be unashamedly Christian in our political speech. The Gospel is public truth. We can’t stop being Christians when we come to deliberate as citizens. Jesus is Lord means Caesar isn’t! But if you follow the Biblical theology I am sketching out in the broadest terms, then you begin to see why “Biblical marriage” is not the engine of an electoral argument. It doesn’t result in a message we can put on a billboard, or even cram into a manifesto.

The power of fake news:

When an advertiser sponsors an Onion story—that is to say, when an Onion contributor writes a story that’s pitched, sold, and packaged to an advertiser by Onion Labs—it bears a stamp of approval from T. Herman Zweibel, the paper’s very fictional, very avaricious ex-publisher: “I hereby approve this commercial endeavor as fit for publication in The Onion news-paper. May the ox of journalism always be yoked to the cart of commerce.”

The history of the iconic baseball treat—Big League Chew:

When I was a little kid, I was enamored with bubble gum. I always blew a lot of bubbles. One of my heroes as an 11-year-old was the second baseman for the Chicago White Sox. Nellie Fox, Hall of Famer. He was known for two things: he used a big, thick-handled bat, and he chewed an enormous amount of tobacco. So, his bubble-gum trading card showed this big bulge in his cheek. I kind of wanted to look like that, and of course I didn’t want to get ill, and I was too young anyway. But I always chewed a lot of bubble gum to look like Nellie Fox, and I’d always use Nellie Fox’s bat.

Long lost writings by Mark Twain have been found:

Scholars at the University of California Berkeley recently discovered a cache of stories—many 150 years old—written by Twain when he was a 29-year-old journalist in San Francisco. The letters and stories were written at the San Francisco Chronicle when it was called the San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, where Twain was responsible for filing a 2,000-word dispatch each day on topics ranging from the San Francisco police to mining accidents, The Guardian reports.

It’s very possible that Facebook hates you:

Facebook wants to be the primary method of communication of language on the internet, and it hates it when I turn down friend requests. It wants to be a weakly-connected network for me, partly because Zuckerberg’s read that wide and weak networks are said to offer more personal opportunity for a user than small strongly-connected networks.

David Brooks writes about suffering in his new book to “save my soul”:

I do think that the state of your soul, whether expressed religiously or secularly, is the primary concern in life. I had become not terrible but not the person I wanted to be. I’m not hurting anybody, I must be okay, but I wasn’t generating the inner light I’ve encountered in people I really admire.

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