California Digital Newspaper Collection, and other links

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• California Digital Newspaper Collection -- "This collection contains 199,710 issues comprising 2,098,165 pages and 17,528,718 articles."
• Four Competing Views in the Black Church on Homosexuality -- "No one would seriously dispute or debate that the absolute historic universal position of the Black Church regarding homosexuality has been and officially remains: Consensual Homosexual Sexual Activity Is A Sin—Period."
• Must a Christian Forgive Unconditionally? -- "...I have found this to be one of the most controverted subjects among Christian ethicists."
• New Study Shows Ginger Is 10,000x Stronger Than Chemo (And Only Kills Cancer Cells) -- "One study, conducted by Georgia State University found that ginger extract was able to reduce the size of a prostate tumor by 56% in mice."
• Popular Atheist Blogger, Leah Libresco, Converts to Christianity -- "Libresco, having been brought up in an atheist household, was exposed to a particular non-religious setting from a young age..."
• Queen Elizabeth I’s long-lost skirt to go on display after being found on a church altar in Herefordshire -- "The country’s leading experts on royal garments have spent the past year piecing together clues about the provenance of the beautifully embroidered textile, which had been cut up and used for hundreds of years as an altar cloth in a Herefordshire parish church."
• The Identity of the New Testament Text II -- "As to the alleged absence of readings of the Traditional Text from the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Dr. Hort draws largely upon his imagination and his wishes."
• The Surprising Truth: Christians Once Banned Christmas -- "The original war on Christmas was waged during the sixteenth and seventeenth century by Puritans, or Protestant Christians who believed that people needed strict rules to be religious and that any kind of merrymaking was sinful."
• Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison -- "On January 4, 1903, Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island."