77% Of Students, and other links

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• 77% Of Students At One Baltimore High School Read At Elementary, Kindergarten Level -- “In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Out of those students, 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level...Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.”
• A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality -- “An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.”
• Balthasar Hubmaier and His Eighteen Articles -- “Forbidding priests to marry and to mock them for their wantonness and misery is like freeing Barabbas and murdering Christ.”
• Can a Pedophile Be Redeemed? -- “The easiest way to see through the pedophile’s spin is to notice how he speaks about himself. An unrepentant pedophile keeps the narrative focused on himself.”
• Canadian Conservatives Call Out Trudeau’s ‘Fringe Minority’ Comments After Driver Runs Over COVID-19 Protestors -- “A freedom protester was mowed down by an SUV late last night. Suspect has been arrested. Trudeau vilified these peaceful protests, and now this happens. Shocking.”
• DeSantis Announces Florida Will Investigate GoFundMe After Company Shut Down Freedom Convoy -- “Also, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey urged residents in his state to contact his office to let him know if they had ‘been victimized by a deceptive act or practice’ by GoFundMe.”
• Federal officials deny transgender inmate’s request for gender-affirming surgery -- “The inmate was housed in a men's prison from 1994 until last May, when Iglesias was transferred to the women’s prison in Fort Worth after she filed for preliminary injunctive relief in court.”
• Free thoughts on the spirit of free inquiry in religion -- “The most effectual means of producing a uniformity in religion, upon any other plan that that of rational conviction, would be to deprive the common people of the use of the Bible, in their mother tongue...”
• Hair Culture among Generational Apostolic Pentecostal Women -- “In both interviews, the mother took the responsibility of establishing the family’s belief and interpretation of scripture concerning hair.”
• GiveSendGo -- “Outside the obvious funding for mission trips, GSG also can be used to raise funds for medical expenses, business ventures, personal needs, churches, nonprofits, ministries or any ‘God Adventure’ on which you embark.” (A Christian alternative to GoFundMe)
• GoFundMe CEO Slammed for Being a ‘Coward’ in Backlash to Freedom Convoy Move -- “It’s likely Trudeau or someone else in the Canadian government asked Cadogan to seize and divert the GoFundMe cash. But that decision came too late.”
• I’ve lived in New York for over 50 years — here are 43 of the best places where you should actually eat -- “Although the city has more than its share of splurge-worthy fine dining, you don't need deep pockets to eat regally, as inexpensive, excellent restaurants can be found all over town.”
• PayPal Plunges, Forced to Close 4.5 Million Accounts -- “PayPal Holdings Inc. said it closed 4.5 million accounts and lowered its forecast for new customers after finding “bad actors” were taking advantage of its incentives and rewards programs.”
• Presuppositions in Approaching the Textual Debate -- “Sadly, many professing believers seem to find difficulty believing in the perfect providential works of God in practical application.”
• Professor Temporarily Removed From Campus After Defending Pedophilia -- “Professor Stephen Kershnar of State University of New York-Fredonia said in a video posted to Twitter that it wasn’t clear to him that adults having sex with children ‘is in fact wrong.’”
• Raising Honest Kids in a Post-Truth World -- “Kids can lie like an ugly old rug and not give it a second thought. It falls to us as parents to teach them to override the impulse to lie.”
• Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse -- “For one thing, terms like ‘misinformation’ (and ‘fake news’) have become manipulative terms of art, to justify cracking down on unpopular (but not disproven or even disprovable) viewpoints.”
• The Preservation of Scripture: Historical Evidence from a Perfect Preservationist, TR/KJV Perspective -- “The video below presents a summary of the historical evidence from a perfect preservationist perspective, combining the Biblical view that God has preserved His words with historical evidence for the preservation of Scripture.”
• USA Swimming announces new policy for elite transgender athletes -- “A panel of three independent medical experts will be charged with reviewing applicants and implementing the policy.”
• What Is Pentecostalism? What Do Pentecostals Believe? -- “In brief, the modern Pentecostal movement began in the first decade of the twentieth century even though it had older roots.”