Are religious people happier, and other links

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• Are religious people happier, healthier? Our new global study explores this question -- “Actively religious people are more likely than their less-religious peers to describe themselves as ‘very happy’ in about half of the countries surveyed.”
• Atlantic Editor Concedes Central Claim Of Trump Hit Piece Could Be Wrong -- “...Bolton confirmed the account from his book in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, saying he had never heard President Trump disparage fallen soldiers.”
• Candace Owens on President Trump’s outreach to Black voters, left’s indoctrination of minorities -- “Political commentator Candace Owens discusses her new book, ‘Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation.’”
• ‘Cuties’ Sparks a Firestorm After Its Netflix Release -- “Rep. Tulsi Gabbard...said on Twitter on Friday that the film ‘will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade.’”
• Davy Crockett’s Fiddle -- “...country-western singer Red River Dave McEnery recorded When Davy Crockett Met the San Antonio Rose with a fiddle that reportedly had belonged to Crockett himself.”
• Do Pro-Lifers Who Reject Trump Have ‘Blood on their Hands’ -- “How do politics impact abortion rates in the United States? It has been almost 50 years since Roe v. Wade was decided. What have we learned?”
• ‘Don’t come back until you find him’: The harrowing story of a father’s desperate attempt to save his son in the Oregon wildfires -- “Chris Tofte blew past the blockade, his green Jeep Cherokee aimed for the bowels of the raging Beachie Creek Fire.”
• Focus on Texas: Shapes -- “Ordinary objects become extraordinary on the right canvas, where repetition, lighting and perspective change everything.”
• How Should the Preexistence of Christ Shape How We Preach the Old Testament? -- “‘Preexistence’ refers to the real, personal, pre-incarnate existence of the Second Person of the Triune God, before his taking on flesh.”
• “Jesus Died for Sinners”: Do Your People Know What This Actually Means? -- “...these three truths about the penal substitutionary atonement should not be assumed. We must teach them line-upon-line and precept-upon-precept.
• Kamala Harris Meets Extremist Anti-Semitic Father Of Accused Rapist Jacob Blake -- “Harris has yet to address these verified facts, which are supported not just by video evidence but by official police reports.”
• On Diverse Reading Lists: A Friendly Response to Denny Burk -- “The lack of diversity in reading for theological education is a real issue of debate.”
• Southern Baptist Pastors Announce “Resolution on Abolishing Abortion” -- “It also rejects an incremental approach to ending abortion and encourages all government leaders to honor Christ by ‘abolishing abortion immediately, without exception or compromise.’”
• The Dead-end of Research Justice -- “I have always chosen textbooks with the aim of finding the very best texts to achieve the purposes of the course.”
• ‘The Very Definition of Tyranny’: Court Upholds LA County’s Ban on John MacArthur’s Church Services -- “Gov. Newsom has reportedly threatened to cut off power to any church that continues to meet in-person. Yet he is facing a large movement of civil disobedience.”
• Tilley Bend Baptist Church -- “Some of the most interesting legends about the region emerged from a perennial family feud and its consequences.”
• Trump to direct federal agencies to move into ‘Opportunity Zones’ -- “President Trump on Monday will order federal agencies to prioritize moving their offices to Opportunity Zones to spur investment in some of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods.”