The Call of the Tamalada, and other links

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• 5-Year-Old Carries Baby in Subzero Cold After They Are Abandoned, Police Say -- “...the temperature was about 31 degrees below zero, officials said, and both children suffered unspecified injuries from the cold...The children are expected to make a full recovery, Ken Marsh, a department spokesman, said Sunday.”
• A Star Is Born -- “Texas’ iconic lone star might trace origins to 1817 Mexican coins.”
• Careful Conversations: Craft Sound Arguments -- “It can be harder to spot issues in informal logic than what is called ‘formal’ logic, but most conversation is carried out ‘informally’ so you will need to learn how to maneuver there.”
• Church Plants Need Pastors, Not Entrepreneurs -- “After all, “church plant” is itself a bit of a misnomer. It’s a statement about chronology, not ontology. Church plants are churches, and churches don’t ultimately need entrepreneurs. They need pastors.”
• Focus on Texas: Deserts -- “These landscapes, seemingly barren and monochromatic, come alive in the lenses of our readers.”
• God’s Grace in the Midst of Rapid Leadership Change -- “Paul stayed in Thessalonica perhaps 3–6 months, and he was briefly in Berea as well. In both instances, just as the believers came to know the gospel, so also they had come to know Paul as a spiritual father who quickly had to leave.”
• Lazarus the Bug -- “The wonders of ironclad beetles seem to include an ability to return from the dead.”
• New Report Shows Widespread Non-Citizen Voting in Virginia – “The Heritage Foundation, meanwhile, maintains a lengthy and growing database of proven voter fraud that has resulted in criminal convictions or overturned elections.”
• Presidential Misconduct: Some Historical Perspective -- “Once Gerhardt argued that Trump’s conduct was ‘worse than the misconduct of any prior president,’ we no longer had any intellectual obligation to take him seriously on the topic.”
• Sexism Isn’t Why Warren Is Falling -- “Her stock in the Democratic primary had been climbing steadily since midsummer...She’s been in free fall ever since.”
• The Call of the Tamalada -- “...making tamales...often prompts a tamalada—a lively gathering of friends and family toiling in the kitchen preparing dozens and dozens of tamales.”
• The Sufficiency of Scripture -- “Scripture is sufficient for Christian practice. At the level of behavior, Scripture offers principles which guide believers in their day to day lives.”
• Turley Calls Case for Impeachment ‘Woefully Inadequate’ -- “Turley, who emphasized that he was not a Trump supporter and voted against him in 2016, nevertheless urged a measured and cautious approach to impeachment, warning of potential repercussions for future administrations if a less rigorous approach was followed.”
• U.S. Supreme Court leaves in place Kentucky abortion restriction -- “The justices declined without comment to hear an appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of a lower court ruling that upheld the law after a federal judge previously had struck it down as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment guarantee of free speech.”
• Veteran-owned coffee company donates to police bashed by Starbucks employee in Oklahoma -- “Black Rifle Coffee Company donates bags of coffee to an Oklahoma police department after an officer was labeled a ‘pig’ by a Starbucks barista.”
• Walker Knight, founding editor of Baptists Today newspaper and former editor of Home Missions magazine, dead at 95 -- “His father worked as a managing editor in Kentucky. Knight followed in his footsteps...”