Bethel Church Hires Crisis Manager, and other links

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• Bethel Church Hires Lindsay Lohan Crisis Manager overs Dead Baby Controversy -- “What do you do when you’re a celebrity pastor with a crisis? You call Hunter Frederick to manage publicity for you. It’s what he does.”
• Careful Conversations: Be Willing to Change Your Mind -- “The reason that there are “degrees” of certainty/knowledge is simply that there are some things we know with greater confidence than other things.”
• Faithful to the Finish: Overview of 1 and 2 Thessalonians -- “The author of 1 and 2 Thessalonians is Paul, who wrote both of these letters during his during his 18 months in Corinth.”
• Girl, 16, Kidnapped by 4 Men While Walking in N.Y.C. With Her Mother -- and it Was Caught on Camera -- “Sanchez stands 5'5" tall and weighs 150 lbs. She has short black hair and brown eyes. At the time she was kidnapped, she was wearing a dark blue short jacket, white sweater, blue jeans and black sneakers.”
• J.K. Rowling accused of transphobia -- “Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has found herself in the midst of a major Twitter storm after lending her public support to a British woman who recently lost her job as a result of sharing her beliefs about a person’s sex — that it is an immutable, biological fact.”
• Man convicted of burning LGBTQ flag, prosecutor calls hate crime case ‘historic’ -- “Hate crimes will not be tolerated in my jurisdiction. Offenders will be aggressively prosecuted and held accountable.”
• Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Burning Rainbow Flag Outside of an Iowa Strip Club -- “While burning the US flag is considered free speech, the rainbow flag is considered in a class in which the Bill of Rights and Constitution do not apply.”
• Maya Forstater’s Witness Statement -- “I believe that being male or female is an immutable biological fact, not a feeling or an identity.” (Forstater was fired for holding this belief.)
• Minding matter -- “How can there be one rule for the objective world before a measurement is made, and another that jumps in after the measurement?”
• Should We As Christians Celebrate Christmas? -- “We love to celebrate Jesus Christ in any way that honors Him. And we believe we do.”
• Southern Baptists have not always embraced Christmas -- “After the Civil War, Southern Baptists began a slow process of incorporating Christmas themes and activities into their church programs and services. One reason for this was the growing popularity of Christmas during the Victorian Era.”
• Special Times Without Special People: Hope for the Holidays When You Grieve for Those Who Have Passed Away -- “These are words of hope for any time when you grieve for those who have passed away...”
• The Digital Pulpit: A Nationwide Analysis of Online Sermons -- “The median sermon scraped from congregational websites is 37 minutes long. But there are striking differences in the typical length of a sermon in each of the four major Christian traditions analyzed in this report.”
• Why Some Christians Don't Celebrate Christmas -- “Isn't it strange how some Christians are not offended that the world is corrupting the things of God so badly for their covetous motives, and yet, if a brother or sister in Christ cease to partake of it, they are seen more evil than them.”