Love the Sinner, and other links

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• A family spat among the Baptists -- "Any attempt by the Missionaries to celebrate this year, is like a man wanting to celebrate his golden wedding when he has been married twenty years to one woman and thirty years to another one."
• Austrian diocese confirms that Catholic priest held liturgy celebrating lesbian union -- "A series of photographs of Fr. Michael Kopp with two women in wedding clothes in a Catholic church in Austria have been making the rounds on social media since last week."
• Christian at the Movies -- "While looking for the frontal assault of satanism, Christians became oblivious to far greater dangers in popular entertainments, to which they gave a free pass."
• College students report professor to school officials for allowing fellow students to say only women have abortions -- "A recent discussion on women’s issues in an Iowa State University classroom turned ugly when an unnamed professor permitted students in the class to address abortion from a purely scientific and biological standpoint."
• Ethics Probe into Rashida Tlaib Extended after Watchdog Finds Evidence of Misuse of Campaign Funds -- "The House Ethics Committee released texts and emails on Thursday that show Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) repeatedly asking for campaign for funds to defray personal costs."
• France Tried Soaking the Rich. It Didn’t Go Well -- "France’s experiments with taxing the wealthy at very high rates didn’t raise much money and didn’t prove politically sustainable."
• How should I read the book of Job? -- "It’s very hard to navigate your way through those chapters and determine what is true and what is not, because these guys are mixing up truth and falsehood all over the place."
• Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin -- "They meant well. I meant well. And on paper it makes sense."
• Montana Students Bully Christian Classmates, Get Their Club Banned for Discrimination -- "Their chief complaint is that a purity pledge is required of the Christian club’s leaders which forbids both homosexuality and heterosexual sex outside of marriage."
• Plenty to be learned from the Rev. William Keel -- "Wonder what our community would be like if each one of us would silently turn inward for revelation, direction and strength?"
• Preaching Difficult Doctrines (Without Splitting the Church!) -- "Belief always drives action. Faith inevitably leads to works."
• Professor Resigns from Columbia University Because It’s More Communist Than the Country He Fled -- "Prof. Serban recalls that he asked the Dean of the Art School what the committee should do if the best qualified candidate happened to be a white male. He said he was told, “No, you cannot select this candidate”."
• To understand the Parkers you have to understand their Church -- "Membership in an Old Regular Baptist Church required the members display public modesty, humility and strength of character."