A Name That Sticks, and other links

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• A Name That Sticks -- “People have wondered whether the butter is named for the town or the town for the butter, but they were both named after Lasater’s ranch, which was named for a grove of trees called La Mota de Falfurrias.”
• A Spectacle, by George -- “Even though I was born and raised in Laredo, I did not know the background of what actually transpired during the boisterous Washington’s Birthday Celebration on the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge each February.”
• Beulah Baptist - Org 1838 Hancock County -- “Beulah Baptist Church in Beulah, Ga is truly a rural gem. It is on a dirt road in a small clearing surrounded by pine trees and old cotton fields.”
• CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds…State, Local Governments Must Act -- “...a new peer reviewed study has been released that finds the CDC numbers to be so wildly unsupported as to be pure propaganda that is based on wholly unscientific practices that were needlessly created on-the-spot.”
• COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective -- “Why would the CDC decide against using a system of data collection & reporting they authored, and which has been in use nationwide for 17 years without incident, in favor of an untested & unproven system exclusively for COVID-19 without discussion and peer-review?”
• Did Paul Prefer Singleness? -- “Paul’s words in the chapter are authoritative, for he speaks as an apostle of Jesus Christ.”
• Hasbro Trolls Doll is the Latest Example of Entertainment Industry’s Complicity in Child Sexual Exploitation -- “The Parents Television Council called out Hasbro for producing and marketing a Trolls doll that includes a button between the female doll’s legs that, when pushed, will make it laugh and giggle.”
• How to Study the King James Bible -- “The King James Bible may seem difficult to understand to the untrained ear and eye. However...”
• Open Letter from the International Board of Directors of RZIM on the Investigation of Ravi Zacharias -- “Our ministry has two priorities right now. We want to help the victims of Ravi’s abuse, and we want to thoroughly understand what has taken place in our organization so that we can do everything we can to make sure nothing like this happens again.”
• Report of Independent Investigation into Sexual Misconduct of Ravi Zacharias -- “On September 29, 2020, Christianity Today published an article citing allegations by three anonymous sources that the late Ravi Zacharias sexually harassed them at two spas he co-owned.”
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Canceled for Questioning COVID-19 Vaccines -- “Every statement I put on Instagram was sourced from a government database, from peer-reviewed publications and from carefully confirmed news stories. None of my posts were false...This kind of censorship is counterproductive if our objective is a safe and effective vaccine supply.”
• Sandy Grove AME and School, Warren County, Org. 1875 -- “Sandy Grove AME has been inactive for several years now but it is one of the older African American congregations in Georgia.”
• Should Creationists Abandon The King James Version? -- “In this day when many Christians have started using one of the modern English translations of the Bible, abandoning the King James Version, it may be well to review a few of the reasons why many creationists still prefer the latter.”
• The Case for Byzantine Priority “...the best modern eclectic texts simply have no proven existence within transmissional history, and their claim to represent the autograph or the closest approximation thereunto cannot be substantiated from the extant MS, versional or patristic data.”
• The Comma Johanneum in an Overlooked Manuscript -- “Whatever the reason, it is remarkable that a manuscript whose existence has been known for so long by New Testament scholars, and is housed in a prominent European library, should be overlooked in this passage.”
• The ‘Insurrection Hallucination’ and How We Got There -- “On Friday, the Senate seemed to vote (they were all quite confused as to what they were voting on, or so it appeared) to allow witnesses. Trump’s counsel then subpoenaed Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.”
• The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales -- “In the oldest story of Stonehenge’s origins, the History of the Kings of Britain (c. AD 1136), Geoffrey of Monmouth describes how the monument was built using stones from the Giants’ Dance stone circle in Ireland.”
• What Happened to Keswick? -- “Few if any of them ever went into Modernism; but they did not seem to warn people very much against it, or against the ecumenical movement.”
• Whistleblower at Smith College Resigns Over Racism -- “My need to tell the truth — and to be the kind of woman Smith taught me to be — makes it impossible for me to accept financial security at the expense of remaining silent about something I know is wrong.”
• White House aide resigns after threatening reporter -- “Ducklo had been put on a weeklong suspension without pay...During a virtual swearing-in for staff on Inauguration Day, Biden said that “if you ever work with me and I hear you ...talk down to someone, I will fire you on the spot.”
• Why I Use The King James Bible -- “Presuppositional apologetics requires the King James Bible.”
• Why the King James Version? -- “We accept it on that basis. God has seen to it that faithful churches have by this method preserved these manuscripts and kept them pure through the centuries unto the present time.”