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Thursday, February 26, 2015

ICYMI Thursday

by Tom Goodman

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These People Honestly Think “The Onion” Is Real and They’re APPALLED.

 

Related: Anatomy Of A Fake, Viral Story: The Priest Who Met A Female God In His Near-Death Experience. I am almost embarrassed about how much I enjoyed people on Facebook and Twitter getting excited about this. Almost.

 

Austin is Most Economically Segregated Metro Area

 

Cathy Lynn Grossman walks on the snarky side in this RNS piece. She seems to imply that all that religious media is ineffective if “only” a third of its consumers is unchurched. First, “unchurched” is not the intended audience for most religious media. And second, is she really unimpressed that a third—a third—of the audience consuming religious media is unchurched?? I’d love to see a third of our churches occupied with those who do not yet identify as members or even regular churchgoers.

 

Nigerian Baptist pastor: “My people are being killed like animals and the whole world is just watching.”

 

Related: How Libya's Martyrs Are Witnessing to Egypt: Murders spark largest outreach ever amid new freedoms and new threats. Simply beautiful story of courageous witness.

 

A FAQ on baptism in the early church. No surprises here: Baptism was originally a post-conversion immersion.

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