4 Lies, 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.

• 4 Lies that Cause Pastors to Neglect their Families -- "If I’m a little short then how much more does daddy need To spend some time with me?"
• A Softer Prosperity Gospel: More Common Than You Think -- "For those with eyes to see, signs of soft prosperity are everywhere in evangelicalism."
• Annular World Company, 1912 -- "To endeavor to prove the truth of the theory...seems to me, since I have been so long gathering in the fund of evidence, like trying to establish self-evident truth..."
• Commentary on the Gospels: Fortunatianus Aquileiensis (English translation and introduction) -- "In order to make this important work available to a wider audience, Dr [H.A.G.] Houghton has prepared an English translation and introduction in conjunction with the COMPAUL project on the earliest commentaries on the New Testament as sources for the biblical text." [Open Access]
• Drug suspect jumps into sea to evade cops, fails to spot huge shark -- "A suspect who jumped into the ocean to evade police swam for more than a kilometre alongside a shark and appeared completely oblivious to the danger."
• Jamey Johnson - The Dollar -- "If I’m a little short then how much more does daddy need To spend some time with me?"
• Joel Osteen's Houston Megachurch Blasted For Closing As Thousands Are Displaced -- "Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church, a 16,800-seat indoor arena, announced on Facebook that it was “inaccessible due to severe flooding”."
• Kathy Griffin on Trump images: 'I'm no longer sorry. The whole outrage was B.S.' -- "Kathy Griffin was promoting her upcoming tour on the Australian show TV Sunrise and backtracked on her apology for releasing photos and a video of her holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump in May."
• Lost Latin commentary on the Gospels rediscovered after 1,500 years thanks to digital technology -- "Parallels with texts circulating in northern Italy in the middle of the 4th century offered a perfect fit with the context of Fortunatianus."
• Professor: Texans ‘Deserve’ Harvey Because They Voted For Trump -- "A sociology professor at the University of Tampa published a tweet on Sunday afternoon suggesting that Texas residents deserve the death, destruction and suffering caused by Hurricane Harvey because a majority of Texas voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election."
• Switch to ‘Rosedale Network’ narrowly fails -- "Conservative Mennonite Conference is keeping its name for now, but leaders will continue to look at possibilities for change."
• The Earth's Annular System, or the Waters Above the Firmament, Isaac N, Vail, Pasadena, CA
• The Great Liberal Experiment Is Dying -- "The conservative movement is indeed in crisis, as is the progressive movement. The various factions are pulling everything apart."
• The Vapor Canopy Theory - Is It in Trouble? -- "As proposed years ago by its defenders, the water vapor canopy theory was a neat idea that addressed several issues raised in Scripture and in science concerning the early Earth.
• Why The Term Traditionalism -- "In 2001, Fisher Humphreys and Don Robertson wrote God So Loved the World: Traditional Baptists and Calvinism."
• Will Jefferson Davis' parting words define the future of America? -- "Having made the announcement which the occasion seemed to me to require, it only remains to me to bid you a final adieu."