Click on the titles below for the linked articles…
Presidential debate was between a pro-choice candidate and a pro-abortion one
Two US presidents debated each other this past week, both competing for a second term. It was a debate like no other, without a studio audience or even the White House press corp in attendance, and both presidents’ mikes were muted when it wasn’t their turn to speak. Commerical breaks – not normally a feature of these debates – were also inserted, giving both participants breaks to regroup. It might have been the most managed of all presidential debates. The Christian kids’ news site World Watch explains it for kids below.
And for a deeper dive, click on the article link above for Jonathon Van Maren’s take.
Why can’t men give birth to puppies? (10-min read)
Some folks in India really believe that if they are bitten by a rabid dog, that will impregnate them with little puppies. The only cure? Talk to your local witch doctor who has a 100% success rate.
Why are we talking about something so ridiculous? Because our culture needs some clarity about how believing something doesn’t make it so. We’ve fallen for “Man, I feel like a woman” being somehow a transformative belief. But why does that belief transform reality, and not the sincerely held belief that some men have that they are in danger of giving birth to dogs?
CRC calls its LGBT-affirming congregations to repent
Welcome news from a denomination many readers are familiar with. Its call to repentance was passed by a vote of 134-50.
Are we more anxious, or is this term usage being expanded? Or might it be both?
There is a general trend in the world to empty words of their meaning. Think of terms like “marriage” and “gender” that have been expanded to mean whatever each individual wants them to mean. The definition of “woman” has become so uncertain that even a US Supreme Court Justice has trouble defining it.
This article charts how the terms “anxiety” and “depression” are also undergoing a change, expanding who they each cover. So are new technologies like smartphones really making us more anxious, or have these terms simply been expanded to include people they didn’t include before? Or might it be a case of both happening at once?
Doctor Who and how bad TV can get
When the BBC show Doctor Who first premiered in 1963, it was a cheesy but slightly educational show, as the time-traveling alien could visit all sorts of historical figures. But in recent years the show has gotten almost comically bad, the normalizaiton of the LGBT agenda now its primary raison d’être.
And they are not the only ones – a recent Star Wars Tales of the Empire episode had two inquisitors murder a Jedi, but both were careful to call him by his desired “they/them” pronouns. More and more often, “this is the way.”
Super awkward abortion conversation at Walgreens… (4 min)
Pro-life groups are getting more creative about not just who unborn babies are, but what it means to be be an adult male.
