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from Anglican Communion News Service
A Church of England Bishop has spoken of the power of church buildings, after research indicated that visits to them have directly contributed to young people turning to faith. The Bishop of Worcester, John Inge, said church buildings are powerful for all sorts of reasons: “They give a sense of stability and also the sense that the Christian faith has inspired people to build these extraordinary buildings,” he said.
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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The European Union is so dedicated to the relocation of Muslim refugees from the Middle East to Europe that it is threatening members who don’t participate with economic sanctions. Poland answered the threat with a defiant message. Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said, “Security policy is a national, not European, competence,” in response.
In what is being referred to as his “parting shot” to Republicans, CBS News anchor Scott Pelley actually said Thursday that Republicans were partly to blame for the GOP baseball shooting that nearly took the life of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and injured many more on Wednesday.
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from The British Journal of Photography
Go big or go home: Photographer Bryan Schutmaat tells us why the American landscape looks best in large-format, and why he won’t be ditching analogue any time soon.
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from CNN
The Supreme Court will take up the most important gerrymandering case in more than a decade, it announced Monday. The case involves district lines in Wisconsin that challengers say were drawn unconstitutionally to benefit Republicans. The case could have a major impact on how district lines are drawn up nationwide.
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from The Daily Caller
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EXCLUSIVE: Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
EXCLUSIVE: Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Critics worry that the institute’s donors and McCain’s personal leadership in the organization’s exclusive “Sedona Forum” bear an uncanny resemblance to the glitzy Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) that annually co-mingled special interests and powerful political players in alleged pay-to-play schemes. The institute has accepted contributions of as much as $100,000 from billionaire liberal activist-funder George Soros and from Teneo, a for-profit company co-founded by Doug Band, former President Bill Clinton’s “bag man.” Teneo has long helped enrich Clinton through lucrative speaking and business deals.
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Disciplinary panel sanctions Los Angeles Bishop J. Jon Bruno
The Episcopal Church ecclesiastical disciplinary panel considering a complaint against Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop J. Jon Bruno has sanctioned the bishop for again trying to sell St. James the Great Episcopal Church. The Hearing Panel told Bruno on June 17 that he is prohibited from “selling or conveying or contracting to sell or convey the St. James property until further order of the Hearing Panel.” The original case against Bruno involves his unsuccessful 2015 attempt to sell the church in Newport Beach, California, to a condominium developer for $15 million in cash. That effort prompted the members of St. James to bring misconduct allegations against Bruno. The members alleged Bruno violated Church law. The Hearing Panel is still considering whether or how to discipline Bruno. St. James was one of four properties that the diocese spent close to $10 million in litigation to recover from disaffiliated Episcopalians who broke with the Church over its policies on women’s ordination and the full inclusion of LGBTQI members in the life of the Church, including ordained ministry.
from Episcopal News Service
The Episcopal Church ecclesiastical disciplinary panel considering a complaint against Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop J. Jon Bruno has sanctioned the bishop for again trying to sell St. James the Great Episcopal Church. The Hearing Panel told Bruno on June 17 that he is prohibited from “selling or conveying or contracting to sell or convey the St. James property until further order of the Hearing Panel.” The original case against Bruno involves his unsuccessful 2015 attempt to sell the church in Newport Beach, California, to a condominium developer for $15 million in cash. That effort prompted the members of St. James to bring misconduct allegations against Bruno. The members alleged Bruno violated Church law. The Hearing Panel is still considering whether or how to discipline Bruno. St. James was one of four properties that the diocese spent close to $10 million in litigation to recover from disaffiliated Episcopalians who broke with the Church over its policies on women’s ordination and the full inclusion of LGBTQI members in the life of the Church, including ordained ministry.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
More Immigration Doesn't Mean Less Economic Freedom
Many conservative intellectuals fear that large-scale immigration erodes a society's commitment to freedom because immigrants bring beliefs from their home country that have an impact on their destination countries. However, new research suggests that this fear is overblown. In fact, studies have shown a positive correlation between the two.
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from First Things
When Queen Sheba visits Solomon, she sees things that take her breath away (2 Samuel 9:3–4), seven things, which roughly match the seven days of creation.
Seventy-five years ago this month, Anne Frank began a diary, reflecting: “Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old girl.” Since her diary was published, it has sold over thirty million copies and been translated into almost seventy languages. No other teenager—perhaps no adult—has influenced Holocaust studies as much as she has. What makes Frank’s diary so memorable is the depth of its honesty and humanity during a time of unimaginable evil.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion – report
Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals
Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion – report
Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
New Political Parties in Old Clothes
On the surface, the elections for the National Assembly in France have nothing in common with Britain’s most recent election. But underneath, Britain and France have a lot in common with each other, and indeed with the United States. Parties across the West have changed. So don’t expect familiar policies just because a familiar name wins. It may be the same label, but it’s a new game.
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New Political Parties in Old Clothes
On the surface, the elections for the National Assembly in France have nothing in common with Britain’s most recent election. But underneath, Britain and France have a lot in common with each other, and indeed with the United States. Parties across the West have changed. So don’t expect familiar policies just because a familiar name wins. It may be the same label, but it’s a new game.
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from IFL Science
Language Alters Our Experience Of Time, Scientists Find
It turns out, Hollywood got it half right. In the film Arrival, Amy Adams plays linguist Louise Banks who is trying to decipher an alien language. She discovers the way the aliens talk about time gives them the power to see into the future – so as Banks learns their language, she also begins to see through time. As one character in the movie says: “Learning a foreign language rewires your brain.” My new study – which I worked on with linguist Emanuel Bylund – shows that bilinguals do indeed think about time differently, depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events. But unlike Hollywood, bilinguals sadly can’t see into the future. However, this study does show that learning a new way to talk about time really does rewire the brain. Our findings are the first psycho-physical evidence of cognitive flexibility in bilinguals.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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The Secret Republican Health Care Plan: Cutting Taxes and Destroying Medicaid
I have been wondering what I should say about the Republican health care legislation in the Senate. We do know that there is a policy split among Senators about how much and how fast to cut Medicaid. We know the bill will cut taxes. But beyond that there is more information on one of my whiteboards than what is posted in public. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving this legislation in secret. And there’s a reason. As The Washington Post puts it: “So McConnell’s theory is that if the Senate’s bill were seen, debated and discussed, opposition would grow and grow, and eventually at least three of his members would bail out (the Republicans’ 52-48 majority means they can only lose two votes). Which might well be true.”
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Secret Republican Health Care Plan: Cutting Taxes and Destroying Medicaid
I have been wondering what I should say about the Republican health care legislation in the Senate. We do know that there is a policy split among Senators about how much and how fast to cut Medicaid. We know the bill will cut taxes. But beyond that there is more information on one of my whiteboards than what is posted in public. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving this legislation in secret. And there’s a reason. As The Washington Post puts it: “So McConnell’s theory is that if the Senate’s bill were seen, debated and discussed, opposition would grow and grow, and eventually at least three of his members would bail out (the Republicans’ 52-48 majority means they can only lose two votes). Which might well be true.”
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
If Trump Is Violating Emoluments Clause, So Did George Washington
One of the world’s leading scholars on the previously arcane Emoluments Clause of the Constitution has filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that President Donald Trump is not violating the provision by having an ownership interest in his private hotel business.
Megyn Kelly’s Poor Ratings Suggest an Uncertain Future
Even a highly publicized and controversial interview with Alex Jones couldn't win that many eyeballs.
Supremes Take Case That Could Fundamentally Reshape Congress
Pounded in recent elections, Democrats ask court to set new limits on political gerrymandering.
Fmr. CIA Officer: Comey ‘Violated His Oath’ Orchestrating Memo Leak
Intel official warns 'horrifically wrong and scary' for fired FBI director to be encouraging disclosures
Liberals Outraged Border Patrol Using Surveillance to Track Migrants
Agents in Arizona get serious about deterring illegal crossings, arrest aliens at humanitarian way station
Fmr. Prosecutor: ‘Totally Unnecessary’ Sessions Recusal Created ‘Mess’
McCarthy argues Comey firing, obstruction claims avoidable if attorney general hadn't been 'steamrolled'
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from The Living Church
WHERE ARE WE LOOKING?
"Ecclesial triumphalism inevitably obscures that to which the ecclesia exists to point: “self-conscious Catholicism can miss the deeper meaning of the Catholic church; self-conscious Evangelicalism can miss the strength of the Gospel; and self-conscious Liberalism can foster intolerance of temper and rigidity of thought”
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
The populists are not defeated and the EU is still fractured, but tentative optimism is taking hold.
from New York Times
Russia Warns U.S. After Downing of Syrian Warplane
Long-running tensions between the United States and Russia erupted publicly on Monday as Moscow condemned the American military’s downing of a Syrian warplane and threatened to target aircraft flown by the United States and its allies west of the Euphrates. The Russians also said they had suspended their use of a hotline that the American and Russian militaries used to avoid collisions of their aircraft in Syrian airspace.
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from Orthodox Christianity
There is one more issue to consider which is central to the Orthodox concept of salvation, and that is deification. The Copts are presently divided over deification. On the one hand, there is Fr. Matta al-Miskeen (“Matthew the Poor”, 1919-2006)—the late spiritual father of the monastery of St. Macarius in Scetis, who emphatically taught deification (and that Communion is of the WHOLE Christ, divinity and humanity). On the other hand, you have the late Pope Shenouda (1923-2012, pope 1971-2012), who denied deification, called it a heresy, and even denied that the Church Fathers ever taught such a doctrine (he also denied that in Communion we partake of the whole Christ, and argued instead that we partake of His humanity alone)! The controversy between Pope Shenouda and Fr. Matta was very public.
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from PJ Media
China Leapfrogs U.S. in Critical Strategic Technology
For the first time, China has demonstrated that it is far ahead of the United States in a critical new technology, namely quantum communications. A Chinese satellite succeeded in transmitting so-called entangled photons to earth stations. That's the high-tech equivalent of sending a message in undeveloped photographic film: If you try to read it, the light will destroy it. The Chinese breakthrough has huge implications for cryptography, and for a host of other applications.
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from Reason Magazine
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Did Otto Warmbier Really Die Because North Korea Denied Him White Privilege?
A look back at what some analysts saw as the teachable moment from an indefensible arrest of an American student abroad. Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student imprisoned by North Korea for over a year for attempting to steal a propaganda poster, has died after coming home to Ohio last week. He showed signs of severe brain damage though North Korean officials claimed he had contracted botulism during his imprisonment. His original sentence was 15 years of hard labor but he was released early due to his health.
Did Otto Warmbier Really Die Because North Korea Denied Him White Privilege?
A look back at what some analysts saw as the teachable moment from an indefensible arrest of an American student abroad. Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student imprisoned by North Korea for over a year for attempting to steal a propaganda poster, has died after coming home to Ohio last week. He showed signs of severe brain damage though North Korean officials claimed he had contracted botulism during his imprisonment. His original sentence was 15 years of hard labor but he was released early due to his health.
from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Washington Post
Supreme Court: Rejecting trademarks that ‘disparage’ others violates the First Amendment
The federal government has violated the First Amendment by refusing to register trademarks that officials consider disparaging, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in a decision that provides a boost to the Washington Redskins’ efforts to hang on to the team’s controversial name. The ruling came in a case that involved an Asian American rock group called the Slants, which tried to register the band’s name in 2011. The band was turned down by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because of a law against registering trademarks that are likely to disparage people or groups.
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from Zero Hedge
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Car Containing Explosives Rams Police Van In Paris, Driver Dead
France’s interior minister says that a driver who rammed a car carrying explosives into a police convoy on the Champs-Elysees avenue has died after the “attempted attack” on security forces.
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