{"id":292,"date":"2010-07-09T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/07\/what-im-reading-articles-on-detecting-down-syndrome-religious-iphone-apps.html"},"modified":"2010-07-09T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T09:00:28","slug":"what-im-reading-articles-on-detecting-down-syndrome-religious-iphone-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/07\/what-im-reading-articles-on-detecting-down-syndrome-religious-iphone-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Articles on detecting Down syndrome, &#8220;Internet Sabbaths&#8221;, and religious Iphone apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,595705,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cheap Blood Test Could Detect Disorders in Fetus<\/a>&#8221; reports on an attempt to create a blood test (rather than CVS or amniocentesis) that could detect Down syndrome, among other genetic abnormalities, very early on in pregnancies.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As readers of this blog know, I&#8217;ve been thinking recently about keeping the Sabbath and creating spaces of rest both for worship, personal restoration, and service to others (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/2010\/06\/No-Shopping-on-Sundays.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">No Shopping on Sundays<\/a>&#8220;). So an interview on PRI&#8217;s Marketplace caught my attention: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2010\/06\/30\/pm-information-overload-an-age-old-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Information Overload: An Age-old Problem<\/a>.&#8221; Check out this quotation in particular:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: 19px\">&#8220;In my family, we do something we call the &#8220;Internet Sabbath,&#8221; which has no religous meaning, it&#8217;s completely secular. But on Friday night, we unplug the household modem which serves my computer, my wife&#8217;s and our 12-year-old son&#8217;s, and it&#8217;s unplugged every weekend until Monday morning.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/03\/technology\/03atheist.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">You Say God is Dead? There&#8217;s an App for That<\/a>&#8221; is an article from the New York Times about the proliferation of apps that provide reasons for and against belief in God. I wonder whether these apps are yet another distraction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cheap Blood Test Could Detect Disorders in Fetus&#8221; reports on an attempt to create a blood test (rather than CVS or amniocentesis) that could detect Down syndrome, among other genetic abnormalities, very early on in pregnancies.&nbsp; As readers of this blog know, I&#8217;ve been thinking recently about keeping the Sabbath and creating spaces of rest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-down-syndrome","category-perfectly-human"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I&#039;m Reading: Articles on detecting Down syndrome, &quot;Internet Sabbaths&quot;, and religious Iphone apps - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/07\/what-im-reading-articles-on-detecting-down-syndrome-religious-iphone-apps.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What I&#039;m Reading: Articles on detecting Down syndrome, &quot;Internet Sabbaths&quot;, and religious Iphone apps - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;Cheap Blood Test Could Detect Disorders in Fetus&#8221; 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