Methodism slowly divides, and other links

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• Ancestor Photos that Can Talk -- “MyHeritage, has introduced LiveStory...upload photos of your ancestor, add a few of their experiences, select a voice, and then sit back to watch them tell their own story.”
• How to remove Google from your life -- “Saying goodbye to Google, then, isn’t as easy as refusing to buy an Android phone. It means likely changing several aspects of your life, including some that will affect the people around you.”
• Joe Rogan Gasps as He Learns About Thomas Sowell’s Teaching on ‘Black Rednecks and White Liberals’ -- “Sowell has spent a career putting truth above popularity. We need a hundred more just like him.”
• Methodism slowly divides -- “Within several years, most U.S. conservative traditionalists, along with churches in Africa, Europe, and the Philippines, will join the Global Methodist Church. U.S. liberals will be left with the unsustainable bureaucracy...”
• Only Half of Evangelical Pastors Possess a Biblical Worldview; Incidence Even Lower for Most Denominations -- “The latest AWVI 2022 release from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University indicates that barely one-half of the pastors of evangelical churches (51%) have a biblical worldview.”
• Response to the Sexual Abuse Task Force Report -- “We can affirm local church autonomy while putting in place a robust process for determining the truth about allegations that member churches have dealt recklessly with cases of sexual abuse and then taking action upon the truth that we discover.”
  
• Self-avowed Christian author and speaker Jen Hatmaker lies about Roe v. Wade -- “Hatmaker goes on to spread the common abortion industry lie that outlawing abortion doesn’t lower abortion rates, but instead makes abortion more dangerous.”
• Shocking Results Concerning the Worldview of Christian Pastors -- “...a new nationwide survey among a representative sample of America’s Christian pastors shows that a large majority of those pastors do not possess a biblical worldview.”
• ‘Something Weird Is Going On’ In The Universe, NASA Says -- “The universe is not only expanding, but it is expanding faster and faster as time goes by. What we’d expect is that the expansion would get slower and slower as time goes by, because it has been nearly 14 billion years since the Big Bang.”
• The Left Has Effectively Banned Christian Kids From Public Pools, Libraries, And Summer Camps -- “Forcing children to sleep and undress next to kids of the opposite sex effectively puts up a ‘Christian kids need not apply’ sign on public recreation activities.”
• The Life and Death of Mr. Henry Jessy, late preacher of the gospel of Christ in London -- “So give me leave to say that the love which Mr. Henry Jessey did bear, and manifest to the Saints, the members of Christ, deserves to be published to his praise and honour, while the Gospel shall be preached.”
• The war over parental rights has begun -- “One must either be a very incompetent educator, or a deliberately dishonest one, to believe that 5-year-olds are remotely capable of thinking with the set of abstract concepts that the separation of gender from biological sex requires.”
• This week a West Virginia woman legally carrying a handgun stopped a mass shooter with an AR-15 dead in his tracks -- “The bad guy made the worst decision of his life that night — and it happened to be the last decision he ever made.”
• Transsexual pioneer criticizes modern trans activists, says they’re indoctrinating kids: ‘This isn’t a game’ -- “If a kid says they’re trans, they’re trans—oh, a kid says they’re an elephant, they’re an elephant? Are you kidding? That’s how ridiculous it is. It’s dangerous and it’s not therapy. Therapy is pushback on some level.”
• When the Church Acts Like the World -- “...we shouldn’t expect much better from a culture like ours, in which sexual activity is treated as the high point of human existence...Sexual abuse is just as horrible and evil within the Church as without, yet we are more guilty because we should know better.”
• Why I Quit Social Media & My Advice for Anyone Considering It -- “I’m not here to judge anyone who finds social media useful or fun. I’m just here to explain why it isn’t for me.”