A Covid Apology to America, 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.

• A Covid Apology to America, on Behalf of the Evangelical Church -- “America, we’re sorry. We had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show you how different Christianity is from the world. And we failed.”
• Clinton Methodist - a very historic church in Jones County -- “When Clinton Methodist was founded, it was on the very edge of the Georgia frontier. Its parishioners were Revolutionary War soldiers and rugged individuals willing to carve out a life for themselves and their families out of the Georgia wilderness.”
• Daniel Merck of Chicopee Baptist Church Imprisoned for Sexual Abuse -- “Assistant District Attorney Harold Buckler talked about how [Merck] was ‘incredibly well thought of’ in the community, including having a street sign named for him outside of the school.”
• Dem Congresswoman Blocks Names of 13 Dead Service Members from Being Read on House Floor -- “The GOP contingent of Republican veterans said House leadership refused to recognize their attempt to read the names of the 12 Marines and one Navy corpsman who lost their lives in an ISIS-K suicide bomb attack outside an entrance to the Kabul airport on Thursday in the final days of the chaotic evacuation.”
• Judge Asks Mom a Surprise Vaccine Question, She Gets It ‘Wrong’ So He Strips Her of Custody -- “Following a virtual custody and child support hearing...The mother lost her custody rights on Aug. 10, the day the court found her unfit to raise the child due to her vaccination status.”
• Michigan Judge Who Stripped Mother’s Custody Over Her Vaccine Status Just Issued a New Order -- “"Judge Shapiro just issued an order vacating portions of his prior order of August 11th so Rebecca Firlit can see her son again," Fernholz told FOX 32 Chicago.”
• Ohio University requiring students, staff get COVID vaccine by mid-November -- “University president Hugh Sherman sent a message to students and employees Tuesday stating that everyone at all Ohio University locations will need to get vaccinated by Nov. 15. The mandate will include people working remotely for the university, according to the message.”
• Texas’s near-total abortion ban takes effect after Supreme Court inaction -- “...the U.S. Supreme Court did not act on a request by abortion rights groups to block the law, which would prohibit the vast majority of abortions in the state.”
• The father of a Marine killed in the Kabul attack says Biden bristled when he told the president to learn the victims’ stories -- “Mark Schmitz’s son, 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, was one of 13 US service members helping to evacuate US citizens and Afghans killed on August 27 in what the Pentagon has said was a suicide bombing by an ISIS affiliate.”
• Those dying post-vaccine: Where are the autopsies? -- “In this age of supposed scientific medicine and a pandemic, we are relying on death certificates for statistics on the cause of death, even though they are known to be extremely unreliable.”
• Updated Seventh-Day Adventist evangelistic pamphlet -- “includes Ellen White’s statement: ‘those who claim that their faith alone will save them are trusting to a rope of sand.’”