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Thursday, October 01, 2015

Sundry Dinner

by Tom Goodman




Stephen Colbert on being a "Fool for Christ."


Whale vomit goes for $17,000 at auction. It was the basis of perfume in days past.


Megan Hill explains what's deficient about asking your contacts on social media to "send out good vibes" for you when what you really need is prayer.


"The Salvation Army’s history makes it clear: Evangelism and social uplift belong together." Read it here.


Eleven Takeaways from the Tenth Planned Parenthood Video. Trevin Wax: "It is frustrating to watch the New York Times and other news outlets ignore this most recent video, which clearly shows Planned Parenthood operatives worried about the kind of news coverage (“Imagine the New York Times headline”) they might get if their organ harvesting scheme were to be investigated."


Bill Nye the Science Guy "claims that laws against abortion reflect 'a deep scientific lack of understanding.' But it turns out that it is Nye himself who doesn’t understand the science. 'I really encourage you to look at the facts,' he says. But then he misrepresents the facts from top to bottom in an embarrassingly transparent effort to hijack science in the cause of pro-abortion ideology." Read more from Princeton's Robert P. George.


"Christian leaders should be wary of mistaking an enthusiastic reaction for a sign of evangelistic success or incipient conversion; sometimes the enthusiasm is just a sign that the world thinks that it’s about to succeed in converting you." In the middle of Ross Douthat's NYT piece explaining why enthusiasm for Pope Francis' visit is an encouraging sign, he concedes a point that may collapse his entire argument.

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