The jewels of winter (6 minutes)

You might sort-of know how snowflakes are made, but how they are actually made is more amazing than you knew!

If $2,000 stimulus checks are good, wouldn’t $200,000 be better? (10 min read)

We’ve gotten so used to the government handing out money it no longer seems crazy or outrageous. But what if we took the same logic behind the US $2,000 “stimulus” and used it to argue for $200,000 checks for everyone? To frame this another way, does God encourage us to help the world by spending and consuming? Or by producing? (Eph 4:28, Matthew 25:14-30, Gen. 1:28).

Where Salome danced

Archeologists make a fascinating find that verifies once again “the Bible is the best-attested book of antiquity, and nothing else comes close.”

Addictions: a banquet in a graveyard

A solid review of an important book looking at addictions from an explicitly biblical perspective.

Do as I say, not as I do?

An American group has mapped out instances where political leaders have imposed COVID restrictions they haven’t then followed. That raises the question of whether these politicians believe in the rules they have imposed. If they find the restriction too strict to be able to follow themselves, shouldn’t they ease them for others?

The two helmet act

In light of the two masks talk…