Links! At least a couple…
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This is an thought provoking article worth reading and digesting. Won’t be everyone’s cup of tea though. If time allows at some point I might interact with it more.
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In Zimbabwe, they found a lost tribe of Jewish people. The Lemba genetically are ancestors, and their priestly clan has the same genetic marker as the Jewish priestly clan. Crazy (and cool)!
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This is one to keep in mind — Are there more earthquakes than there used to be? The quick answer: No.
The frequency of major earthquakes has remained fairly constant throughout recorded history. Since 1900, there have been approximately 18 earthquakes of 7.0 or greater magnitude per year. (One usually crosses the 8.0 barrier.) There are no data suggesting an upward trend in that rate. Seismologists are detecting more and more smaller quakes, but that phenomenon can be attributed to the quality and quantity of detection devices: Since 1931, the number of seismological stations worldwide has increased from 350 to more than 8,000.
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Apparently lots of folks think internet access is a right we are all entitled to. How bout we get “food in the belly” taken care of first, and then maybe decent quality health care that perhaps keeps your baby from dying of things like malaria, and then perhaps after a few other things then maybe — MAYBE — we can move on to internet access.
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You may or may not have noticed that probably a majority of my “news” articles come from the BBC website. It’s because I don’t like the American news outlets. There is one in particular though that generally causes my blood pressure to rise (Fox) and it’s because of commentators like Glenn Beck who, within the past couple of weeks, told viewers to “look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!” I’d probably say the opposite “look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church web site. If you don’t find them, run as fast as you can because they obviously are ignoring a large part of scripture (the more than 2000 verses addressing it) and Jesus.” It’s why my wife and I are partnering with an organization that firmly believes that the Gospel is holistically transformative and why we are working with the world’s poor (they truly are special in God’s heart and eye) and why, for example, this week I’ll begin to teach people how they can budget and save and such even whilst living on very little and why we one day hope to offer job skill training as an integral part of our ministry. I’m ashamed that Christians let someone like Glenn Beck (who isn’t a Christian and doesn’t hold to the supremacy of the Bible in one’s life) speak for them in such a haphazard manner. Here’s to social and economic justice.