Yaupon tea, 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.

• Candace Owens Drops New Trailer For ‘The Greatest Lie Ever Told: George Floyd And The Rise Of BLM’ -- “In the documentary, Owens reveals what she learned when she sat down with the people who knew Floyd best — and how a carefully crafted lie quickly swept across the globe.”
• Car Thieves Are Using a New Tactic to Target Vehicles with Keyless Entry, Experts Warn -- “Two people are needed to make a relay theft work. One goes to the front door of an unsuspecting house, because many people store key fobs near the front door.”
• Changes in the English Language -- “A comparison of Old, Middle, and Modern English, using Bible verses from Wessex Gospels, John Wycliffe translation, and King James Bible.”
• Church Life: Our True Political Witness -- “The local church is the most political of assemblies since it represents the One with final judgment over presidents and prime ministers.”
• Buffalo Suspect’s Manifesto Revealed: 5 Statements Proving He Wasn’t a Christian Conservative -- “The gunman killed 10 people and injured three others at a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo. Payton Gendron is a self-proclaimed atheist who denounced conservatism, Christianity, and Fox News in his 180-page manifesto.”
• Does God Hear Scripted Prayers? Lessons from a Puritan Controversy -- “The clearest reason some Puritans opposed such prayers is because they believed their use violated the regulative principle for worship.”
• Eras of Miracles and Divine Interventionism -- “God has intervened in a special, unique, and miraculous way throughout history. However, this kind of dealing is far less frequent.”
• Four armed intruders broke into Indiana home — but just two survived, police say -- “The suspects forced their way inside but were soon confronted by the homeowner, who was also armed, the TV station reported.”
• Francis Wayland: Preacher-Economist -- “One of the great but long-forgotten works of political economy from the nineteenth century was not written by a politician or an economist—it was written by the Baptist minister Francis Wayland (1796–1865).”
• Good Faith Debates -- “In early May we’ll be releasing a five-part video debate series featuring prominent Christian thinkers discussing some of the most divisive issues facing the church today.” (Not an endorsement of these debates, but just a “Hey, look, you might be interested in this.”)
• I questioned why children were being encouraged to transition – and it cost me my dream career -- “It seems mind-boggling that someone could be ejected from much-needed counselling work and therapy training for questioning how best to help vulnerable children.”
• Laguna Woods church shooter was targeting Taiwanese community: Sheriff -- “52-year-old Dr. John Cheng took it upon himself to charge across the room and to do everything he could to disable the assailant...He sacrificed himself so that others could live.”
• On the Death of 2 Children - a poem by Elder Gilbert Beebe -- “Jehovah has our good in view, He’ll give us grace and bear us through.”
• Standing up to Cancel Culture: Texas band gave up celebrity to defend the preborn -- “Texas-born musicians Jim Seals and Dash Crofts of the popular group Seals and Crofts were at the height of popularity in the early 1970s...All that changed in 1974 with the release of their album ‘Unborn Child.’”
• The five lost letters of the English language -- “We learned our letters as children and we forever have the ear-worm of the alphabet song stuck in our heads, but did you know that there were actually a few letters that didn't quite make the cut for our modern alphabet?”
• Traffic deaths surged 10.5% in 2021, the most since 2005 -- “This is the highest annual increase since record keeping began in 1975. (Interesting read, but curiously fails to mention anything about cellphones.)”
• William Jennings Bryan the Great Commoner -- “His skill at public speaking and his ability to connect with the ‘common man’ made him one of the most famous, beloved, and influential Americans of his time.”
• Yaupon: The rebirth of America’s forgotten tea -- “According to research conducted by Dr William Merrill of the Smithsonian Institution, the shrub was consumed by almost every Native American tribe who lived among it.”