Vegan Panhandlers, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A wealth of information. . . untapped no more -- “I tell you all that to make the point that Jim is not just terminally curious like me, he is a professionally educated and trained crazy man.”
• Awake Thy Soul: Singing the Centuries-Old ‘Sacred Harp’ in Baltimore -- “Raucous at times, haunting at others, shape-note singing can come across as an indecipherable wall of sound at first because of its polyphonic harmony singing.”
• C. S. Lewis’s Denial of the Blood Atonement -- “C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) is loved with an equal fervor by conservative evangelicals, emergents, Roman Catholics, Mormons, even atheists, a fact that speaks volumes to those who have ears to hear.”
• Catch a Wampus Cat -- “It didn’t take long for the wampus cat to become the subject of stories designed to scare children into doing as they were told.”
• Face to Face With History -- “It turns out that following the original discovery in the Malakoff quarry, archaeologists found two more heads in the same vicinity. As far as explanations go, it seems science is as stumped as I am.”
• Friends in High Places -- “While Dad’s left hand was trapped, he saved a man’s life that day with his right hand—the day he came home with the big bandage.”
• How Scripture’s Authority Shapes What We Do On Sunday Morning -- “The primary audience of the Bible is not a single person but God’s gathered people. We express his final authority when we express allegiance to what he has commanded in his Word.”
• On Reading and Studying as a Pastor -- “...precisely because our people are bathed in trivial information in this day and age, they need a shepherd with real knowledge, much discernment, and a nose for truth.”
• Texas Book Man -- “Felton Cochran’s cluttered bookshelves—the finest collection of Southwest literature for sale—endure despite the internet.”
• The 10 Largest National Cemeteries in the USA -- “A US national cemetery is a military cemetery provided for the burial of US military personnel, veterans, and sometimes their spouses or dependents.”
• The Needless Alarm. A Tale -- “Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, “Live till to-morrow, will have pass’d away.”
• The Recent Olympic Last Supper Controversy: Worse than Weird -- “Christians see churches as weird that accept only sacred worship of God. Any church or Christian that takes a stand against worldliness is weird.”
• Vegan Panhandlers -- “Lately I’ve been on a deep dive into “demonymology.” Sounds ominous, but it’s simply the study of what people from certain places call themselves.”
• What Distinguishes Biblical Counseling from other Methods? -- “Rather than attempting to catalogue all the players, I think we are best served by developing basic skills in discernment.”