9 Ways to Fight, 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.

• 9 Ways to Fight Anti-Semitism -- “In the face of rising anti-Semitism around the world, here are nine ways to fight back.”
• America’s Kids Badly Need a ‘Chore Culture’ -- In a nutshell, such a program promotes what one might call a “chore culture,” a culture which instills hard work, responsibility, and the knowledge of basic skills which today’s society has lost.
• Ancient Wisdom for Modern Marriages -- “A man may ask: ‘What if my wife does not reverence me.’...‘Never mind, you are to love, fulfill your own duty’.”
• Bible translations: Comparison charts -- “Some interesting information, though I do not agree with all of it.”
• Former lesbian says it’s not ‘gay to straight; it’s lost to saved’ -- “A young woman named Emily Thomes recounted her story on a video testimony produced by Anchored North, a Christian media ministry targeting millennials with short videos.”
• History of the Heresy of Transubstantiation -- “Any tradition devised by men must be compatible with the New Testament...”
• How Religion Predicts Pet Ownership in the United States -- “Over 60 percent of Americans have some sort of family pet...Most notably, we find a strong, negative association between worship attendance and cat ownership.”
• J. D. Greear and Gender-Neutral Pronouns -- “If we allow people to use preferred pronouns, as opposed to the pronouns that actually describe their gender, we are allowing them legitimacy in their sin.”
• Montana program allowing parents, students to choose religious school should be upheld -- “The Montana Department of Revenue wishes to shut down the state’s tuition tax credit program for private schools, citing Montana’s Blaine Amendment, because the program allows taxpayers to use the tax credit for both religious and nonreligious school tuition.”
• NIV2011 comparison with NIV1984 and TNIV -- “Vast amount of information that demonstrates how the 2011 New International incorporates much of their mostly rejected TNIV.”
• Sermon – Christ our Worship Leader – Hebrews:5-18 -- “This is a sermon on worship and Christ as our ‘praise leader.’”
• Should We Trade in Funerals for “Celebrations of Life”? -- “Over the last decade of serving the local church, I’ve noticed a trend: people don’t like thinking about death. In every conceivable way, we dismiss, ignore, and refuse to acknowledge our mortality.”
• The Translation of Gender Terminology in the NIV 2011 -- “The new NIV adopts feminist translations of key verses.”
• Trump affirms religious liberty in schools -- “Our Founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous, and virtuous society than the right to follow one’s religious conviction.”
• We Need to Stop Saying That There Are 33,000 Protestant Denominations -- “Catholics need to stop citing this number, not only because it is outlandishly false but because it is not the point how many Protestant denominations there are.”