10 Beautiful Cemeteries, 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.

• 10 of the World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries -- “...there are SO many beautiful cemeteries around the world it is a challenge to choose just ten.”
• “A Very Powerful Place” Seguin Memorial Educates and Preserves God, Family, and Country -- “As those checks would come in, I would ask the donors what they wanted me to do with the money. About halfway through it, they said they would like to make it a memorial.”
• An Introduction to Multiple Version Onlyism -- “Initially, MVO accepted all renderings as equally valid because it was held that no substantive doctrinal differences existed in the aggregate: all renderings were simply variations of the same theme.”
• Can Multiple Versions Equally Be God’s Word? -- “I ask you to consider that there is a significant difference between making claims about what God said or did not say, and making claims about what God meant by what He said.”
• Goldie Hawn Talks Staying Out Of Politics: ‘I Stay In My Lane,’ We Should Entertain ‘For All People’ -- “I think we entertain. I think we bring awareness to people, just of their ability to laugh, to have joy, to experience it, to cry.”
• Good Shepherd Episcopal Church and School, Glynn County, Org. 1894 -- “...the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, built in 1928, and the little parochial school next door, built in 1901...were founded by Deaconess Anna Alexander, consecrated in 1907 as the only African American deacon in the Episcopal denomination.”
• How Christians Survived Communism in Europe | Guest: Rod Dreher -- “Dreher has released a new book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, which compiles firsthand accounts of Christians who fled communism in Europe. Their stories and warnings are as important as ever...”
• I’m a New Yorker who visited Texas for the first time. Here are 9 things that surprised me about Austin. -- “I was also surprised by the amount of traffic on the roads in Austin — it took a while to travel from one end of the city to the other, especially during rush hour.”
• J. R. Graves -- “JHSHS member Josh Davenport speaking on the Life of J. R. Graves, ‘the most pivotal and controversial figure in American Baptist history.’”
• John Bunyan -- “In 1651 the women introduced him to their pastor in Bedford, John Gifford, who was instrumental in leading Bunyan to repentance and faith.”
• Lockdowns, Masks, and Vaccines Have All Been Complete Failures, But That’s Not the Real Problem -- “But imagine, for one moment, that the lockdowns, masks, or vaccines actually did work. Would that mean the government could force us to take experimental vaccines, lockdown society, or mask up into perpetuity?”
• Luke 2:14 - Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men -- “Even these clear, plain words, however, have been changed in modern Bible versions.”
• Multiple Version Onlyism (MVO) and the 1978 Chicago Statement on Inerrancy -- “Signed by 300 noted Evangelical leaders, all advocates of MVO, their endorsement of the statement did much to support the credibility of MVO...”
• Nacogdoches city council hires firm for controversial comprehensive plan -- “Why do we want to spend a half a million dollars for someone to tell us what we already know?”
• Neither Vaccinated Nor Unvaccinated: How Churches Imposing Vaccine Mandates Are Dividing Christians With A ‘Different Gospel’ -- “The language of the announcement was understated but the import was not — Redeemer Presbyterian had effectually segregated its church body based on vaccine status.”
• New York judge strikes down state mask mandate -- “A New York judge struck down the state's mask mandate on Monday, one week before it was due to expire, ruling the governor overstepped her authority in imposing a rule that needed to have been passed by the state legislature.”
• Revising the King James Version and Pleasing Absolutely No One -- “...those who love the King James Version aren’t calling for an update of the KJV. The only people I hear call for an update of the KJV are people who don’t like the KJV”
• Sen. Tim Scott: “Blatantly False” Narrative From Democrats About Biden’s Voting Rights Bill Is “Offensive” -- “To compare or conflate people who oppose his positions as being racists and traitors to the country is not only insulting and infuriating, it’s dead wrong.”
• Slain officer’s sister says Facebook should be held liable for her brother’s death -- “The suit challenges a controversial 26-year-old law that protects social media companies from liability for user posts.”
• Tesla finds a new source for key battery ingredient, bypassing China -- “AutoBlog.com is calling the partnership between the electric car manufacturer and the producer of the mineral critical for lithium-ion batteries rather unique, while the value of the deal has not been released.
• That Oklahoma Democrat accidentally exposed how little women matter to pro-choice progressives -- “This progressive lawmaker wrote a bill saying that fathers had to support their unborn children from the moment of conception...fearing that such assistance might lead more women to choose not to abort, the Left furiously demanded he retract the bill.”
• The 101-Year-Old Enemy of the State -- “The communists persecuted Bounsaen often, sometimes sending police officers and soldiers to interrogate him.”
• The Greatest English Classic: A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee -- “The way had been beset with struggle, marked with blood, lighted by martyr fires. Wiclif and Purvey, Tindale and Coverdale, the refugees at Geneva and the Bishops at London, all had trod that way. Kings had fought them or had favored them; it was all one; they had gone on.”
• This Day In Church History: The “White-Ehrman” Joint Appearance (January 21, 2009) -- “Since taking place, it has become one of the most talked about events in the subculture of evangelical internet apologetics...”
• “Voting “Rights” Bill -- “The voting rights bill would insure that the federal government would control the way states run elections. The U. S. Constitution guarantees the state legislatures have the right to set election laws.”
• WM 220: Text Note: Luke 2:14: Hixson or Linus? -- “The external evidence overwhelming supports the traditional text...The traditional reading was the clear consensus of Christians throughout the ages and should not be abandoned.”
• WM 221: J. K. Elliott, Radical Eclecticism, and Academic Respectability -- “For Elliott the canonical text is not the original text. This means (to him) there can be authentic Jesus material not in the canon, and there can be inauthentic Jesus material within the canon.”