A Tale of Texas, and other links

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• A Tale of Texas Crawfish -- “Across Texas, every crawfish chef and backyard boiler has a recipe. Most popular is the Cajun style, which calls for infusing boiled crawfish with peppery spices and serving them with boiled corn and potatoes.”
• Brothers, Preach Your Heart Out — No Matter How Few People Are in the Room -- “When we tie our value as preachers to the number of people we’re preaching to, we devalue the Christ we preach.”
• In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Schumer for ‘threatening’ comments -- “‘I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,’ Schumer said.”
• Is “God forbid” a “poor translation” in the King James Bible? -- “When we pair the words ‘God” and ‘forbid,’ we form the strongest negation possible in the English language.”
• Meat and Greet -- “On an overheated Saturday in early October, I drove Roy Perez, the venerable pitmaster at Kreuz Market in Lockhart, and Kreuz Market owner Keith Schmidt to Snow’s BBQ in Lexington.”
• School officials stifle students’ resistance to LGBTQ flag -- “Kaardal contends the incident will lead to a federal lawsuit with two types of claims, one being that the display of flags other than the national flag needs to be viewpoint neutral...And the second claim? ‘You can't suppress student petitions regarding school district policy...’”
• Sharpening My Knowledge -- “Chet learned a lot about barbed wire, which changed the frontier prairie forever, at the Devil’s Rope Museum in McLean.”
• The Conversation Behind the Conversation: How Ecclesiological Assumptions Shape Our Complementarianism -- “Behind many of our complementarian debates are significant differences about how we view the church...More to the point, faulty views of the church create complementarian chaos.”
• The Tail Trail: Where To Find the Best Crawfish -- “Co-op Country offers a bounty of mudbug options”
• Think Trump is ‘outrageous?’ He’s nothing compared to these past presidents -- “Unprecedented, unprecedented. Everything is unprecedented. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Except it pretty much has.”
• Understanding Jewish Gravestones -- “Others say the rocks were originally to mark the site of a corpse as a warning to passing Jewish priests against getting within 4 feet of a dead body, which would render them unholy.”