Tuesday’s Links To Go

9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask

Syria and its history are really complicated; this is not an exhaustive or definitive account of that entire story, just some background, written so that anyone can understand it.


Can Homosexuals Force Christians to Accept Their Behavior?

Now, the question will turn to religious groups themselves. If a single individual cannot “discriminate” against homosexual behavior on religious grounds, on what constitutional ground can a church (which promotes those biblical teachings) stand if it refuses to perform or to permit homosexual weddings to take place in their facilities? The individual is simply a inter-connected part of the whole. If the fruit of the tree is poisonous, how long will it be before the entire tree is declared poisonous?


8 Good Reasons to Change Modern Church Service

Sunday morning service is not serving the needs of Christians in our present time. Because of this, passionate and committed Christians are working to make up for this shortcoming in their “spare time.” This is simply inappropriate and wrong, and the only reason this is still happening is because church service has become a “sacred cow” no one is allowed to touch. Here are eight good reasons to rethink Sunday morning service.


A Note to Those Who Criticize Me

But I do want you to know, critics, that I thank you for your words of admonition. I have a strange relationship with you. I dread you and I need you. There will be times when I am right and you are wrong. But there will be many times when you are right and I am wrong.


The Legal Code: Clarification and Disclaimers

But here is what has changed. The legal texts of Moses were in some cases highly detailed and prescriptive. Some would read the New Testament literature as if it were the same genre as the Book of the Covenant or the Holiness Code. This amounts to viewing the New Testament books, not as occasional literature written to aid disciples in a Christocentric reading of the Hebrew Scriptures, but as a flat law code of new legal stipulations for Christians.


Football and the Gift of Institutions

Interestingly, often these ingredients can be separated from one another and the institution will still function, at least to some extent. You can take away the football arena and play the game of football in a back yard, and it is still truly a game of football. You could even take away as central an artifact as the football itself: if a group arranged themselves in two facing lines on an unmarked field and one player in the center hiked a ball made of old rags to someone standing behind them, who then handed it off or passed it to one of their teammates, anyone familiar with the game would recognize it as football. Just the constellation of rules and roles would be enough to make it such a game.


Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD

French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children’s focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress—not in the child’s brain but in the child’s social context. They then choose to treat the underlying social context problem with psychotherapy or family counseling. This is a very different way of seeing things from the American tendency to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child’s brain.


British man turns the tables on telemarketers by charging them to call him

Since changing his number in November 2011, Beaumont says he’s made about 300 pounds ($464) from the calls. Using a service called PhonepayPlus, Beaumont charges incoming callers 10 pence to connect and additional charges for the longer he stays on the line.


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