Whoever thought “Family Feud” went out of style in the ‘70s – along with shag carpeting – was dead wrong. The classic family-versus-family game show is back for Facebook, and somehow, it’s just as fresh as it was 40 years ago. With the app, you can play classic or tournament style and face off against the other family, which in this case is a computer. But if you want to team up with a friend, you can choose the Build Family option and play with someone to earn points (especially if you’re feeling like your brain is frazzled at the moment). Plus, check out how your friends are faring on their own. Of course, the app makes you wait eight hours between games, unless you want to whip out your credit card and pay to play again immediately.
Mark Sappenfield
Editor
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
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