A Conservative Christian Battle, and other links

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• A Conservative Christian Battle Over Gender -- "Some communities agree that women shouldn’t be pastors. But their members fiercely debate every other kind of women’s empowerment."
• A History of Anti-pedobaptism: From the Rise of Pedobaptism to 1609 -- "The Taborites were if possible more pronounced than the most evangelical of the Waldenses in their insistence on the absoluteness and the exclusiveness of scriptural authority and in applying the Scripture touchstone to every doctrine and practice."
• Ann Coulter shreds Sean Hannity: 'He would endorse communism' if Trump did -- "The best way we serve the people we admire is to tell them the truth."
• Australian police charge Vatican cardinal with sex offenses -- "Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis' chief financial adviser and Australia's most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged in the church's long-running sexual abuse scandal."
• Jack Phillips’ story -- "...I can’t promote messages that violate my beliefs, though I'd be happy to sell you anything else."
• J. C. Philpot’s Letter of Resignation from the Church of England -- "In short, I am mixed up with a society of men whose life and conduct, however amiable, moral, and honorable, are not those of ‘the poor and afflicted’ family of God."
• Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol -- "Michael Tate Reed, 32, of Van Buren, Arkansas, was booked in the Pulaski County jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. on preliminary charges of defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass and first-degree criminal mischief."
• Saving Chief Wahoo -- "It is not possible to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision this week to confer free-speech protection on the Slants, an Asian-American rock band."
• Tattooed Pharisees: How the New Legalism is Wrecking the Church -- "... legalism...also exists in skinny jeans and a Hebrew tattoo. It hides behind your Bethel Music and your electric guitar."
• Terminally ill baby Charlie Gard's parents 'utterly distraught' after losing final appeal in European court - meaning their son's life support WILL be switched off -- "Chris Gard, 32, and Connie Yates, 31, wanted to take their 10-month-old son - who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage - to the US to undergo a therapy trial."
• What about Movie Clips? Applying the Regulative Principle -- "In the beginning was the Word, not the video."
• What Evidence Proves Moses Wrote the First Five Books of the Bible? -- "...when you say that from the beginning they are monotheistic, then by implication you destroy the whole evolutionary theory as it had been propounded by Eichhorn and De Wette and Graf, Kuenen, and Wellhausen..."
• What politicians mean when they say the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation -- "America's first nationalist movement was a small group of young New England writers at Yale College who were fiercely Christian."