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Saturday Selections – Dec. 10, 2022

Bugs with gears? (1 min)

What the narrator here credits to evolution Christians can enjoy for what it reveals about God’s ability – His amazing engineering on the smallest scale – and God’s personality, how He has packed the world with marvels like this, undiscovered for thousands of years, but just waiting there for us to uncover.

Leaders need to be readers

…and, as Dr. Wes Bredenhof writes, it isn’t just a matter of reading lots, but reading deeply.

5 new stats you should know about teens and social media

Every teen seems to have a phone, Tik Tok is huge, and kids need parents to control their own habits so they’ll be better able to mentor their own children…

One way the KJV is better (1o-min read)

While I won’t be switching to the Authorized Version (AV, also known as the King James Version or KJV), I did find this quick debate, for and against, illuminating. It highlighted that in one respect the KJV does what any modern English can’t do: it distinguishes between the plural and singular usage of “you” by offering thou (singular you) and ye (plural you).

Or this might be making the case for a Texan Version (TV) where we’d distinguish the singular from the plural by using “you” and “y’all.”

The first two minutes after church is over

Tim Challies, on the importance of those first two minutes after the church service is done.

Jordan Peterson on whether gov’t COVID overreaches could lead to a “social credit” system (2 min)

China has been implementing a “social credit” system in which citizens are scored on their compliance, and citizens who have committed no crime might still be denied rights others with higher social credit scores enjoy, like the ability to take flights. In Canada, the government has attempted this on a smaller scale in initiatives like denying pro-life groups money for student job creation that went to other organizations with higher (not in name, but in fact) “social credit” scores.  You can click on the title above for the whole interview.

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Saturday Selections – Dec. 3, 2022

Wage gap bake sale (4 min) For a while "wage gap bake sales" were a thing at schools, where men would have to pay more for the baked goods than women. Why? To show them what it was like to be financially discriminated against. But the "wage gap" these sales were meant to highlight wasn't the act of discrimination that the feminist Left made it out to be. This video is a little over the top, but a good overall explanation. What Kuyper can teach us about managing social media Do we want the State doing it, or parents stepping in to save our kids from social media scarring? How you answer that will depend on what you expect from the "sphere" of State and "sphere" of family. I am not my body? To justify transgenderism, euthanasia, and more, the world subscribes to a dualism of body and self - ie. they say you are not your body. Then that allows them to also say you are not the sex you were born as since you are not your body. Or they can ignore caring for their elderly mother because that's not my mother; the "real her" left long ago.  Christians would say we are not merely our body; there is more to us, but there isn't less, because our bodies are an integral part of who we are. This is a deeper article, but worth reading even if just to get the gist, because dualism is the worldview behind so much of what the world is promoting. If Canada’s incoming "assisted dying" rules were there a decade ago, I’d be dead Andrew Lawson explains how his struggle with depression a decade ago would likely have led to a state-assisted suicide, had that option been available then. Honoring parents when they don't deserve it Tim Challies speaks to the 5th commandment to honor our father and mother, and he addresses the hard cases of what that looks like with abusive or otherwise wicked parents. Overly excited soccer announcer Maybe you've come across one of these lately... ...