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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch Society“Climate Collapse?” Some Believe Global Warming Needs Another Rebranding
The cult of climate change is experiencing yet another identity crisis. Some in the movement believe that the term “climate change” is not frightening enough, and the movement needs a rebranding in order to properly rouse the world’s population to action against the fake calamity. Back in the beginning of the 21st century, “global warming” was the term peddled to the public as the coming disaster that would necessitate a world government. When the world ceased warming, a new catch-all phrase — climate change — was coined to keep the world’s populace fearful than man-made carbon dioxide was destroying our atmosphere. Now, climate hysterics are worrying that neither term — global warming nor climate change — is enough to keep the public properly terrified.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
THE GOSPEL IN THE LITURGY
This piece is reproduced with the permission of J.I. Packer.
Certainly, the Prayer Book does not play in the lives of the present-day churchmen anything like the part it played in the Christian practice of their great-grandfathers. A century ago, Christians wove Prayer Book prayers into both private and family devotions as a matter of course. Their Bible reading followed the psalms and lessons set for each day. They memorized the catechism in youth, and dwelt on it constantly in later life. Their Prayer Book was prized and well-used. But all that has changed. Many modern Anglicans do not even own a Prayer Book. Their Bible Study scheme, if they have one, owes nothing to the lectionary. They rarely hear, nor do they wish to hear, what used to be called ‘Prayer Book teaching’ – exposition of the Articles and services. The Prayer Book has little hold on their affections. They patronize it, treating it as a rather faded family antique, nothing like as precious as their forbears imagined. They seem to have no inkling of its real worth.
This piece is reproduced with the permission of J.I. Packer.
Certainly, the Prayer Book does not play in the lives of the present-day churchmen anything like the part it played in the Christian practice of their great-grandfathers. A century ago, Christians wove Prayer Book prayers into both private and family devotions as a matter of course. Their Bible reading followed the psalms and lessons set for each day. They memorized the catechism in youth, and dwelt on it constantly in later life. Their Prayer Book was prized and well-used. But all that has changed. Many modern Anglicans do not even own a Prayer Book. Their Bible Study scheme, if they have one, owes nothing to the lectionary. They rarely hear, nor do they wish to hear, what used to be called ‘Prayer Book teaching’ – exposition of the Articles and services. The Prayer Book has little hold on their affections. They patronize it, treating it as a rather faded family antique, nothing like as precious as their forbears imagined. They seem to have no inkling of its real worth.
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from Psephizo (blog)
I have posted this every year since 2013, and every year it stirs up a response. Why does it matter? For at least four reasons: 1. It demonstrates how, even with important parts of Scripture, we find it hard to read what Scripture actually says. 2. It also shows how easily we impose our own assumptions on the text, rather than reading it in its context. 3. Resistance to the evidence shows how powerfully traditions have a grip on us, and resist revision. 4. Most importantly, the ‘traditional’ reading that Jesus was born in a stable actually distorts the story of Jesus’ birth, and mutes the central message of the Christmas story—that Jesus wasn’t born in a place where we can happily visit once a year, and then forget about. Rather, he comes to the centre of human life, and cannot so easily be romanticised or ignored.
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from Quora
On the whole, this scenario tends to serve as a political Rorschach test. If you prefer the Democratic party, you will most likely see Trump’s actions in the most unfavorable light, most likely completely dismissing comparable actions on the left as ‘Whataboutisms’ meant to distract you from Trump’s manifest evil. It’s obvious he should be impeached and removed and banned from office immediately! If you prefer the Republican party, you will most likely see Trump’s actions in the most favorable light, as acceptable or possibly even demanded by justice, or at a worst just ‘politics as usual’, a much lesser version of what the other side has been trying, and the impeachment attempt as an attempted non-violent coup, attempting to strip the impact of your votes and establish an urban hegemony over rural America a la the Hunger Games. If you’re able to even see both sides, without either devolving into a strawman in your brain, congratulations.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub opens Spokane location
Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub, an Everett, Washington-based restaurant chain, has opened its first restaurant east of the Cascades on Monroe Avenue in Spokane. The new location in the former Milford’s Fish House opened for business at 11 a.m. Monday, according to a company news release.
Midnite: A spent uranium mine
In the midst of this gorgeous natural paradise we call the Inland Northwest is a ticking time bomb — a radioactive Superfund site that has possibly poisoned hundreds of local residents and won’t be cleared of danger — to the federal government’s standards, at least — for another half-decade.
Barr doesn’t accept key inspector general finding about FBI’s Russia investigation
Attorney General William Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report – that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
Chicago mayor fires city’s top cop over ‘ethical lapses’
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired the city’s retiring police superintendent Monday, citing “ethical lapses” that included telling lies about a recent incident in which Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel of his car after having drinks.
State puts portion of North Spokane freeway on hold in response to I-976State puts portion of North Spokane freeway on hold in response to I-976
More than $90 million in Spokane-area transportation funding has been delayed due to last month’s passage of Initiative 976 by Washington state voters. Topping the list is work on the North Spokane Corridor, also known as the north-south freeway, according to a list released by the Washington state Department of Transportation. Between $45 million and $50 million in work to construct the freeway between Sprague Avenue and the Spokane River has been deferred.
Then and Now: NorthTown Mall
NorthTown started as a shopping center surrounding a new 30,000-square-foot supermarket built by Idaho grocery magnate Joe Albertson at the corner of Division Street and Wellesley Avenue. The store was twice as big as Albertson’s “home” store in Boise and opened in 1951. The massive parking lot had a strip of smaller stores which included Bell Furniture, a W.T. Grant dime store and other clothing or drug stores.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Here’s how to combat the evil being done in our names
Here in the season of festivity and light, it’s probably natural that we don’t think much about how it feels to be a child in a chain link cage, a woman sleeping on concrete, a man denied soap, toothpaste and medicine. In the season of home for the holidays, who wants to be reminded of those who have no home to go to? Of those who are mistreated as a matter of policy by our government? And thus, by us. ... The evil – and the word is apropos – being done in our name at the border depends for its success on our willingness to watch in compliant silence as fellow human beings are “otherized” and “monsterized,” stripped of their individuality, remade in the image of American fears.
Hanford boosts contaminated groundwater cleanup to protect the Columbia River
The Hanford nuclear reservation is expanding its capacity to clean chemical and radioactive contamination from the groundwater. The 580-square-mile nuclear reservation sits over about 65 square miles of groundwater contaminated by past practices at the site, such as dumping contaminated liquids into the soil.
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Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub opens Spokane location
Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub, an Everett, Washington-based restaurant chain, has opened its first restaurant east of the Cascades on Monroe Avenue in Spokane. The new location in the former Milford’s Fish House opened for business at 11 a.m. Monday, according to a company news release.
Midnite: A spent uranium mine
In the midst of this gorgeous natural paradise we call the Inland Northwest is a ticking time bomb — a radioactive Superfund site that has possibly poisoned hundreds of local residents and won’t be cleared of danger — to the federal government’s standards, at least — for another half-decade.
Barr doesn’t accept key inspector general finding about FBI’s Russia investigation
Attorney General William Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report – that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
Chicago mayor fires city’s top cop over ‘ethical lapses’
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired the city’s retiring police superintendent Monday, citing “ethical lapses” that included telling lies about a recent incident in which Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel of his car after having drinks.
State puts portion of North Spokane freeway on hold in response to I-976State puts portion of North Spokane freeway on hold in response to I-976
More than $90 million in Spokane-area transportation funding has been delayed due to last month’s passage of Initiative 976 by Washington state voters. Topping the list is work on the North Spokane Corridor, also known as the north-south freeway, according to a list released by the Washington state Department of Transportation. Between $45 million and $50 million in work to construct the freeway between Sprague Avenue and the Spokane River has been deferred.
Then and Now: NorthTown Mall
NorthTown started as a shopping center surrounding a new 30,000-square-foot supermarket built by Idaho grocery magnate Joe Albertson at the corner of Division Street and Wellesley Avenue. The store was twice as big as Albertson’s “home” store in Boise and opened in 1951. The massive parking lot had a strip of smaller stores which included Bell Furniture, a W.T. Grant dime store and other clothing or drug stores.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Here’s how to combat the evil being done in our names
Here in the season of festivity and light, it’s probably natural that we don’t think much about how it feels to be a child in a chain link cage, a woman sleeping on concrete, a man denied soap, toothpaste and medicine. In the season of home for the holidays, who wants to be reminded of those who have no home to go to? Of those who are mistreated as a matter of policy by our government? And thus, by us. ... The evil – and the word is apropos – being done in our name at the border depends for its success on our willingness to watch in compliant silence as fellow human beings are “otherized” and “monsterized,” stripped of their individuality, remade in the image of American fears.
Hanford boosts contaminated groundwater cleanup to protect the Columbia River
The Hanford nuclear reservation is expanding its capacity to clean chemical and radioactive contamination from the groundwater. The 580-square-mile nuclear reservation sits over about 65 square miles of groundwater contaminated by past practices at the site, such as dumping contaminated liquids into the soil.
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