ICYMI Thursday

by Tom Goodman

Austin Zoo reenacts Jurassic World velociraptor scene in viral photo

 

Apparently I’m not the only pastor who found Allen’s Getting Things Done system helpful: “GTD’s most surprising superfans have their minds on higher things. "The clergy love it," says Allen. "I have often argued that we should create a clerGTD. From any and all denominations. It’s quite ecumenical. They know how to do the God stuff, but it’s all the stuff they have to handle that they weren’t trained to do. The more they do that, the more they can focus on the more meaningful stuff."”  This article provides a summary of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” system, which I (sort of) use, and his claim that not everyone is doing it right.

 

Here’s how our own BGCT-affiliated Baptist Standard angled the report on the SBCs action toward a church with views incompatible with our Baptist Faith and Message: “SBC ousts Alabama church over pastor’s stand on homosexuality.” Listen, folks, any time a reporter—or an editor—uses the word “ousts” in reporting on this subject, you’ve just received a big tip on his or her bias. So, the SBC did some “ousting” while the pastor “stood.” Got it?

 

Confederate Battle Flag Talk:

“The cross and the Confederate flag cannot co-exist without one setting the other on fire.” Russell Moore, in a must-read piece

 

“Some [in the 50s, 60s, and 70s] displayed it as a curiosity, a general symbol of rebellion against authority, or an emblem of regional pride…[but] the flag was created by an army raised to kill in defense of slavery, revived by a movement that killed in defense of segregation, and now flaunted by a man who killed nine innocents in defense of white supremacy.” The Atlantic

 

National Review’s David French on why the Confederate battle flag should stay.

 

NYT:

In Austin, Tex., a tall bearded man went into the tattoo parlor where Kelly Barr works with a request: the removal [of] a 10-year-old tattoo of the Confederate flag.

He told Mr. Barr that he had decided to get the flag removed when he saw the pained look on a middle-age black woman at his gym on Monday.

“ ‘If South Carolina can take theirs down,’ ” Mr. Barr recalled him saying, “ ‘I can take mine down.’ I told him, ‘Right on.’ ”