Boomtown Pandemic, and other links

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• Boomtown Pandemic -- “The people died, and they just died so fast here till they didn’t have no undertakers. You’d just have to put them in pickup trucks and haul them to Houston.”
• Brisket and Red Bean Chili -- “We looked to our Texas neighbors for inspiration for this hearty one-pot wonder.”
• Creative Sparks Ignite Sleepy Little Town -- “Next year marks 50 years since Doug opened his Potters Brown shop in 1971 along the sleepy downtown Edom main street.”
• Disney Defends Decision To Work With Chinese Entitites Accused Of Human Rights Abuses In Xinjiang -- “The decision is particularly ironic given that the company, through its now-former CEO Bob Iger, indirectly threatened to pull the company’s production apparatus from Georgia if the state passed a controversial ban on abortions performed after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.”
• Dr. Jo Jorgensen pledges to sue states for unconstitutional lockdowns that harm low and middle-income families -- “I believe businesses must be free to set their own COVID-19 policies, and citizens must decide for themselves how much risk to accept or avoid. Politicians need to butt out.”
• East Damascus Baptist -- “The church was named ‘East Damascus’ Baptist Church because there is another Damascus Baptist Church in Calhoun, on the west side of Gordon County.”
• Honesty and Dishonesty; Inerrancy and Errancy -- “I think it important to say that I have some evangelical friends who do not believe in inerrancy. I’m unpersuaded by their arguments; I think they stand on the slipperiest of slopes...”
• Jo Jorgensen Is ‘Fine’ With Filling SCOTUS Vacancy Before Election -- “‘If it were me, I would certainly put my nominee forth,’ Jorgensen says. Partisan bickering over the confirmation process is just ‘politics as usual.’”
• My Message to ‘Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden’ -- “These ‘pro-life’ evangelicals...are calling on other Christians to vote for the party that opposes the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would guarantee medical care for a baby that survives abortion.”
• Obadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone -- “...the savage beating of Obadiah Holmes brought international attention to the very ideas the Puritans wanted to suppress.”
• Persuasion to a point of view is ethical and necessary -- “...it is idealogical suicide to suppose that we do not have a say or that we should not speak up to defend what we believe in the public square.”
• Social Justice -- “All people everywhere want justice.”
• The DC Mayor Doesn’t Get to Define Church -- “Now, like many evangelicals, you might not agree with CHBC that a church must regularly gather together to be a church. But all of us have a vested interest in not letting government officials set the definition for what a church is.”
• The Difference Between Topical and Expository Preaching -- “...expositional and topical preaching can be the best of friends.”
• What Makes a Vote Moral or Immoral? The Ethics of Voting -- “Thinking ethically about voting means accounting for more than one rock, but it also means acknowledging that some rocks are heavier than others.”
• When I Think of Texas, I Think of... -- “Here are the many ways readers finished this sentence.”