Bi-vocational ministry, and other links

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• Appraiser Describes Finding Beethoven Sketch Leaf in Connecticut Home -- "It’s certainly one of the highlights of my career."
• Lawsuit by ex-Atlanta fire chief critical of homosexuality to proceed -- "U.S. District Judge Leigh May said in a ruling issued on Wednesday that Cochran's claims of religious discrimination are plausible and refused to dismiss the case."
• Stop Sending Missionaries: Why More Isn’t Always Better -- "Why would you send someone to plant churches abroad who you would never hire as a pastor or nominate as a lay elder?"
• The Biggest Apology for Christian Persecution of Other Christians Ever -- "The delegates, who represented more than two billion Christians, gathered in the Albanian capital of Tirana last month under the organization of the Global Christian Forum.
• The Blessings of Bivocational Ministry -- "I stumbled into being bivocational (I had a full-time job while at the same time pastoring a church); it wasn’t a part of my life’s strategy."
• The Crucible of Bivocational Ministry, Part 1 -- "…my secular job experience has actually helped to enrich and refine my ministry."
• Unbelief As A Belief System: Core Tenet For Christians' Fight For Religious Rights -- "I don't think there really can be any question that there are forms of secularism, including some that are very prominent today in universities and other elite sectors of our society — belief systems that are comprehensive views — that function in people's lives the way that religions function in the lives of traditional religious believers."
• Wheaton College Suspends Professor After 'Same God' Comment -- "I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book; And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."