Had a busy weekend and couldn't catch the news? Here are three national stories you and your family may find interesting.
You’re doing it wrong: Thanksgiving — Slate
You’re probably aware that you’re going to be stuffing your face with enough gravy to fill a small lake this coming Thursday. But there’s more that goes into Turkey Day than just sitting at the table, getting your political facts in order and preparing your answers for your family’s questions on your single life.
For those who cook and host Thanksgiving, Slate has got you covered head to toe with some holiday advice. There are recipes a plenty for the meal, dessert and even pre-dinner snacks. Slate has also put together a playlist to help set the mood for you this Thanksgiving.
“Cooking a Thanksgiving meal is a somewhat masochistic enterprise. It’s rewarding, for sure, and fun if you like cooking,” Slate’s L.V. Anderson wrote. “But perfectly coordinating the timing of several dishes — nearly all of which taste best hot, many of which require oven time, and some of which begin deteriorating in quality shortly after you finish cooking them — is, well, impossible.”
Why God will not die — The Atlantic
People are always searching for answers about the afterlife. And according to The Atlantic’s Jack Miles, that’s why many more people should be religious pluralists. Miles wrote science only gives answers to a certain number of questions, but rarely has a solution about what the afterlife consists of.
God and religion, though, help people understand what comes next, Miles wrote.
“You’re going to go with something,” Miles wrote. “Whatever it is, however rigorous it may claim to be as either science or religion, you’re going to know that you have no perfect warrant for it. Yet, whatever you call it, you’re going to go with it anyway, aren’t you? Pluralism at its deepest calls on you to allow others the closure that you yourself cannot avoid. Science keeps revealing how much we don’t, perhaps can’t, know. Yet humans seek closure, which should make religious pluralists of us all."
Bill Cosby finally speaks out on sexual assault allegations — Business Insider
Several rape allegations involving Bill Cosby surfaced this past week. The former sitcom star has remained fairly quiet when addressing these rumors, but Cosby spoke out this weekend again about the allegations when talking to Florida Today. The newspaper covers the Melbourne, Florida, area, where Cosby put on a comedy show Friday night.
“I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,” Cosby said to Florida Today. “People should fact-check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.”
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