Be Honest, 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.

• Be Honest – The Place of Truth in a Post Truth Society -- “Have you ever noticed how when someone writes ‘be honest about X’ they often really mean ‘agree with me about X’? ”
• Church Visibility or Church Publicity? -- “I do have a deep concern that many who are pushing for ‘more online presence’ have lost all sense of distinction between very different things: visibility and publicity.”
• Gender Language in Translation -- “Bill Mounce, an NIV translation member, makes the case for their continual changes to the NIV (I disagree).”
• Grand Adventure on the Isle of Lewis with Kids -- “As the largest island in the Scottish archipelago of Western Isles, the Isle of Lewis is the northwestern-most place in all of Europe.”
• How Many Towels Do You Need? -- “The answer was surprisingly clear: two per person.”
• Keep Up or Die?: A Church that Won’t Hold a Heresy Trial Isn’t Really a Church -- “Rather than seeing liberal theology as a variant of the Christian faith, [J. Gresham Machen] Machen labeled it as some other religion that merely poses as Christianity.”
• Prominent Trump- and Fox News-hater gets punked by a joke about POTUS – and then writes a fake news story -- “I’ve been telling this joke at parties for years, and @GabrielSherman is the first person to think it was real. That’s what happens when the media wants to spin anything as ‘Orange Man bad!’”
• Sir Roger Scruton: How To Be A Conservative -- “Sir Roger Scruton...first embraced conservatism after witnessing the leftist student protests in France in May 1968.”
• Ten Exhortations concerning Gossip Blogs and Online Speech -- “Recognize foolish speech when you read it. There are ‘trolls’ online who trade in foolish speech.”
• The Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy: Muting the Masculinity of God's Words by Vern Poythress & Wayne Grudem -- “The strong negative reaction of the Christian public to the possibility of an inclusive-language NIV was...due to one central fact: the people who controlled the NIV were making plans to change it to a gender-neutral translation.”
• The Use of Psalm 16:8-11 in Acts 2:25-28 -- “The main focus in the psalm is on life with God and life apart from God, not with life and death.”
• Third and Seventeen to the Championship -- “[LSU] ended up beating seven top ten schools over the course of the season. Seven! And they didn’t scrape by.”
• What is the Truth about the Australian Bushfires? -- “These fires are not new. This afternoon I was reading about the impact of the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires that burnt a quarter of Victoria, killed 12 humans and over a million sheep.”
• Why a Seventeenth-Century Baptist Used the Creeds -- “That whatever is good in any, owned by any, whatever Error or Vice it may be mixed withal, the Good must not be rejected for the Error or Vice sake, but owned; commended, and accepted.”