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Saturday Selections – Mar 4, 2023

Trick shot basketball (5 min)

Everyone talks basketball in March, so here are some highlights from the “That’s Amazing” crew and the Harlem Globetrotters.

60 questions for pro-choice Christians

For anyone you know who professes to be both Christian and pro-choice, here are questions to clarify a different sort of “choice” they need to make: between supporting abortion or following Christ.

Our badly designed pharynx? 

Christians will sometimes wonder if they should give evolution a hearing since there’s supposed to be so much evidence for it. But how much of that evidence is simply ideology?

Here’s one example: some evolutionists will point to humans’ pharynx  – the shared opening we have in our throat for both food and air – as an example of the bad design you’d expect chance and time to produce. They point to it as evidence of evolution’s trial and error. But if we don’t presume that our pharynx was Designer-free, then you’d see it for that example it is of stupendous design – it took genius to make this work just so.

COVID might have been created in a lab… and now you’re allowed to say it

The findings are still not definitive. What is definitive is that the social media censorship and mainstream media dismissal of this possibility two years ago tells us a lot about how little we should trust these information gatekeepers.

Girls are getting sick from Tik Tok

“One of the strangest stories of the last couple of years is how teenage girls have been stricken with facial tics after browsing the video-sharing app TikTok.” But is it only facial tics that are contagious over social media? Or is social media also responsible for “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” and the increase in teens identifying as LGBT? “Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues, in a sweeping new analysis, that this catastrophic rise in teen mental illness is largely caused by social media use.”

What’s the greatest of all Protestant “heresies”?

Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) thought assurance was the worst of all Protestant doctrines…which is high praise indeed.

A dueling banjo

To set the scene: in this clip from The SongRose has just met Jed King, the singing act for her vineyard’s annual wine-tasting festival. When Jed asked her why she seems distracted, Rose finds herself oversharing – to a complete stranger! – that she’d just bumped into her ex-boyfriend Eddie who’d dumped her for… well, for being a good Christian lass. And to top it off, the jerk brought his new girlfriend along.

So… Jed decides to sing Rose a song.

 

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Saturday Selections – Feb. 25, 2023

Cell membranes are amazing! (11 min) Each one of your cells has its own protective shell that has to be able to let food in, allow garbage out, and repel invaders. And there was no time for these abilities to evolve separately because a cell needs all these abilities from the get-go... otherwise it will die. Why do Christians make such a big deal about sex? When the world throws slurs at the church - "Why are you guys so obsessed with sex!" – we might be tempted to deny the attack. But as Rebecca McLaughlin notes "Whenever people ask me why Christians are so weird about sex, I first point out that we’re weirder than they think. The fundamental reason why Christians believe that sex belongs only in the permanent bond of male-female marriage is because of the metaphor of Jesus’s love for his church." The most dangerous type of Christian parenting Parents worried about how their kids are going to embarrass them are focused more on their "spiritual reputation" than their children's actual spiritual sanctification. Is this the dawn of a sexual counter-revolution? Another secular critic is rejecting the world's approach to sex and love and marriage, because of all the damage done. But while secular folks like this are starting to see through the lie, they still need someone to point them to the Truth. The Second Commandment, the Westminster Larger Catechism, and images of Jesus The focus of this article is on pictures of Jesus in story bibles, but the point being made is relevant too, to the popular The Chosen TV drama about Jesus's disciples, but which also features Jesus Himself. Some Christians argue it is different to portray the incarnate Jesus – rather than the invisible Father or Holy Spirit – because He did have a physical body. This article offers up what the "Westminster Divines" thought. There are also practical considerations: when Jesus is portrayed, there's the matter of accuracy. Historically, European artists have portrayed Him as European, making it easy to forget His Jewishness... and might that have contributed to anti-Semitism? In making a visual representation of Christ it seems unavoidable to, at least in part, recast Him in a contemporary hue. In keeping with our time, The Chosen's producers have given women a more prominent placement than they have in the Scriptures, with perhaps the most notable being the healing of the paralyzed man of Luke 5:17-25. It was men that arranged for their friend to be lowered through the ceiling; in the series two women, Tamar and Mary Magdalene, are credited with the idea. Don't just vote (2 min) Every election cycle there's a push to get everyone to vote. But why are we trying to make it easier (with mail-in ballots) for uninterested people to vote? ...