From silence to complexification to capitulation, and other links

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• A Revealing Survey On Church Practice -- “The results of the survey showing the presence of open communion and alien immersion in the Southern Baptist Convention are as follows:”
• California governor’s inclusion of Scripture on abortion billboards draws response, prayer -- “Jonathan Keller, president of California Family Council, said Newsom’s policies are egregious enough without the hijacking of Scripture.”
• Evangelical and LGBT+ Ally: Why You Can’t Be Both -- “A poll taken in 2021 found that the generation of adults most influenced by LGBT+ culture is adopting this view of fidelity [that it is not required].”
• From silence to complexification to capitulation -- “Neutrality is not an option. Neither is polite half-acceptance. Nor is avoiding the subject. Hide as you might, the issue will come and find you.”
• Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Strip Children from Parents to Medically Transgender Them -- “SB 107...enables children to be kidnapped and enticed to the state against their parents’ wishes and against the court custody determinations and laws of other states.”
• In Milwaukee, Latinos fed up with crime weigh GOP appeal -- “What seems to be driving them are bread-and-butter issues that Calderon’s neighbors constantly mentioned to Associated Press reporters last week – rampant lawlessness, struggling schools, and food and gas prices creeping beyond their paychecks’ reach.”
• NFL Head Coach Smacks Down Reporter’s Race-Based Question with 5 Words -- “Bowles’ answer didn’t exactly line up with the progressive tendency to view everything through the lens of race and ethnicity.”
• PRAGER: The American civil war is over Judeo-Christian values -- “God judges our behavior, and we are therefore accountable to God for our behavior. Outside of a religious worldview, there is no higher being to whom we are morally accountable.”
• Rage over Troy Aikman’s ‘dresses’ remark gives credence to ‘cancel culture’ -- “In the NFL’s attempt to make its inherently violent game safe, the direction of roughing the passer penalties will soon require a Supreme Court ruling after every sack.”
• Religion, Culture, and Public Life -- “During the fall of 2006, I was in his office, expressing my anxious agitation about the upcoming congressional elections. I worried over the loss of a Republican majority...with a wave of his hand, he dismissed my anxieties with a simple observation: ‘Relax, Rusty. The Republicans will betray us eventually anyway.’”
• Rosaria Butterfield: “I Reject the False Teaching of Revoice/Side B Theology” -- “Side B Christianity—Revoice—is tribal, not truthful. Instead of offering fundamental liberty in Christ, including redemption and change, Revoice theology denies the power of Christ’s blood to sanctify His people...”
• Sharper Iron Crowd Ignores the Peter Van Kleeck, Jr. Post -- “I don’t believe the MSTC started with Scripture to come to their position. I don’t believe they read their Bible and concluded: ‘Hey, we aren't supposed to expect a perfect text in our hands. It's going to have errors in it because textual variants are too high a hurdle to cross.’”
• Teacher at Center of Hijab Controversy Sues Olympic Medalist for Defamation -- “The incident occurred Oct. 6, 2021, about five weeks after classes began in the South Orange-Maplewood School District in northern New Jersey.”
• The Cancellization of Dr. Nassif -- “The reason is no mystery. Nassif maintains that all this occurred because he expressed his reasoned, orthodox views on marriage and human sexuality.”
• The Westminster Standards and Gay Christianity’s Side “B” [The Revoice Conference] -- “A Westminster Confession-subscribing pastor should be able to tell a man who is sexually attracted to other men to repent of sinful desires and to kill the attraction from which they originate. Side B seems incapable of saying this...”
• Views on the afterlife -- “Large majorities of all Christian subgroups say they believe in heaven, while belief is much less common among religiously unaffiliated Americans (37%).”