Alternative social network Parler, and other links

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• A Sad Chapter in the History of Evangelicalism in America -- “Please don’t tell me (or others) that courage is only standing for what your crowd wants you to say. Trust me, ‘my crowd,’ doesn’t want to hear this.”
• Alternative social network Parler hit first overall on the U.S. -- “App Store for iPhones and second on Google Play, according to mobile analytics firm Apptopia.”
• Could you be convinced that 2 + 2 = 5? -- “Enforced speech codes demanding that we recognize biological males as women is not very different from being forced to say that ‘2 + 2 = 5.’”
• David Platt’s bad political theology ignores God’s standard -- “This is true. As far as it goes. No political party has a monopoly on justice. However, one political party is pro-baby murder...”
• Death and Funerals -- “The first trend is to redefine the funeral as a “celebration of life.” No, funerals are not celebrations of life...We gather because death summons us.”
• Democrats Encourage Supporters to Relocate to Georgia to Vote for Ossoff and Warnock in Runoff Elections -- “Legally, Georgia’s law is vague, but experts say that casting a vote in a state without intention of staying would be classified as a felony, via Wall Street Journal.”
• Doctor or Brother? by Arthur W. Pink -- “The principal passages which have helped me I now mention, praying that it may please God to also bless them to others.”
• Finally: a simple timeline of Acts [infographic] -- “This doesn’t cover every character. You’ll notice that John doesn’t have a line, nor the faithful Luke, nor the prophet Agabus.”
• Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- “Issue: Whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim — namely that the government would allow the same conduct by someone who held different religious views”
• Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia -- “Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch each have decades of experience in the foster care system...These two Catholic women chose to partner with Catholic Social Services because they wanted to work with a faith-affirming agency and were impressed by its excellent reputation.”
• Georgia to Conduct a Hand Recount of Election Ballots -- “Georgia’s top election official said Wednesday the state will conduct a hand recount of all paper ballots cast in the Nov. 3 presidential election.”
• Gleanings From Ketcherside -- “Much of the irreverence, formality and cold ritual of these days is the result of a loss of significance of the priesthood of all believers.”
• Headstone Emblems -- “Pictures, with identification, of various emblems placed on tombstone.”
• How to Vote 2020 -- “Christian people must resist being driven by material concerns. Their primary interests are not economic. Their duty is to seek first the kingdom of God...”
• Is Being Gay Genetic? -- “People will often assume that there must be a genetic source for sexual orientation and will talk about it as if it is settled science. But it’s not.”
• Jordan Sekulow to Newsmax TV: Trump Team Building Its Elex Case Carefully, Methodically -- “It’s going to be a little bit of a slow process to get this into court, but then all the federal courts know they’ve got to do this rapidly...Let us do our legal work, and then the courts are going to do this in an expedited manner.”
• Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen pulls some votes from Biden and Trump, calls election a ‘wake-up call’ -- “About 70% of Jorgensen's campaign volunteers were registered Democrats or Republicans, she said.”
• QAnon, Conspiracy Theories, & the Church -- “Often, conspiracy theories come wrapped in biblical language, twisting a theological term here or a Bible verse there.”
• Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine: What to know -- “Pfizer hopes to produce up to 50 million doses of its vaccine in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion in 2021.”
• Southern Baptist Convention President defends Democrats in our churches -- “I have my own convictions,” Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear said. “But I’m not going to make that a matter of fellowship and faith. If there is somebody because of their perspective or perception of what is going on in the world chooses to have a different political calculus than me, I don’t believe the church should be defined by anyone of those.”
• The Second Conservative Exodus from Facebook to Parler Has Begun -- “Let’s face it, Facebook is out of control these past 7 days. The level of filtering, censoring, throttling, and removing of Conservatives and Republicans is unprecedented.”
• What do we owe a President? -- “At the very least, we owe our president a commitment to pray for him. In 1 Timothy 2:1-4.”
• Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Wisconsin, And Pennsylvania -- “When my Federalist colleague Sean Davis noted this, Twitter was quick to censor his tweet, even though all he had done was compare two sets of vote totals on the New York Times website.”