Links To Go (April 5, 2016)

Changing the Subject– When Principles are Caricatured as Prejudice

The point of this post is this—- reasonable people can disagree on what constitutes moral sexual activity and what counts as reasonable gun control. If we want to actually act intelligently about such matters we should have meaningful discussions, not posturing, not using pejorative language like ‘prejudice’ or ‘unAmerican’, or the like.


Persecute Me, Please: God’s Not Dead 2 and the Evangelical Lust for Victimhood

Christians want to be guilty of something in that ironic sense in which Jesus was “guilty,” and yet they aren’t sufficiently like him in enough ways for that to even be a problem. They are more worried about getting into heaven than they are about doing anything useful to people on earth. They are more concerned with believing the right things about sin and salvation than they are with mitigating any of the problems people deal with in the present reality like poverty, famine, disease, and social injustice.


ESPN Tried to Shame Cuba on Poverty and It Backfired Spectacularly

The caption read, “Meanwhile, next to the stadium in Havana…” — an apparent attempt to highlight the irony of the most powerful man in the world enjoying a game at a fancy ballpark while the ills of poverty sat right next door.
There was just one problem:
Justin Klugh, a sports blogger with SB Nation, responded by tweeting the above image of the scene outside Citi Field in Willet’s Point, Queens, where the New York Mets play baseball.
If anything, the shot from the U.S. looks even starker than the one from Cuba.


15 Historical Complaints About Young People Ruining Everything

A recent New York Times article about millennials in the workforce didn’t paint a pretty picture. But a few admittedly astonishing anecdotes shouldn’t be used to stereotype millions of people. Nothing is certain in this life but death, taxes, and the existence in every generation of people who complain about young kids ruining everything.


So You Have No Idea What Your ‘Calling’ Is

Finally, remind yourself of who you are to God. Whatever your current situation or calling, you are a child of the King. Sometimes, the most refreshing things we can hear as we pursue our life calling is the reassurance from God that He loves us, that He notices our faithfulness, that He redeems wasted time, and that He is using us now and preparing us for later, whether we see it or not.


Why flying is awful, explained using your sad, lonely apartment

The important thing, of course, is not how terrible this density would be in your apartment. Rather, it’s how well it works in the confines of an airplane. These are the conditions we sign up for every time we purchase an economy-class airline ticket. And everyone aboard that plane agrees to abide by those conditions for however long it takes for the plane to reach its destination.


Northampton troopers find 230 bags of heroin after suspect whispers ‘I don’t think they found all the stuff in the car’

While transporting the suspects from state police barracks in Northampton to the Hampshire County Jail & House of Corrections, troopers allegedly heard Tutsock turn to Johnson and Richards and whisper, “I don’t think they found all the stuff in the car.”
Shortly after, detectives returned to the car in question to conduct a second search, police reports said. Police came across a sealed red Coca Cola can containing 230 baggies of heroin labeled “Alpha” on the car’s floor police said. Troopers also discovered three digital scales with white powder on them inside the trunk’s spare tire compartment.


A Cuban-born Rays player saw his family for the first time in 3 years

One of the best moments in the Rays’ trip to Cuba didn’t happen on the baseball diamond. It happened when the team arrived in Cuba and Dayron Varona saw his family for the first time in three years.


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