Saturday Link Love: Bill Gothard, Jesus’ Wife, and Racist Algorithms

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Note: Inclusion does not imply full agreement.

Jerry Falwell Jr. Defends ‘Christian’ Trump, Criticizes ‘Hypocrites’ Concerned About Playboy Cover, on Christian News—“Jerry Falwell, Jr., . . . is now calling those who have expressed concern over his pose with the candidate [Trump] adjacent to a framed Playboy magazine cover “hypocrites” who need to stop “judging.””

The Cult Next Door, in Chicago Magazine—“Whatever the outcome of the case, the shroud of anonymity that once served as a kind of shield for IBLP against unwanted attention has been ripped away.”

‘She Didn’t Say Vagina’: Sex Ed in Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool, on Broadly—“Parents who homeschool their children are not required to follow any curricula, which can make lesson plans for sex ed particularly fraught.”

The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife, on The Atlantic—“The owner of the Jesus’s-wife fragment, whoever he was, had told King a story about where, when, and how he’d acquired it. But the closest thing he had to corroboration was a photocopy of a signed sales contract.”

Racist Algorithms, Crime, and the Ethical Use of Data Prediction, on Skepchick—“As someone who builds predictive models for a living, I am dismayed at the misuse of predictive algorithms for the purposes of discrimination.”

Catholic Church Accused of “Mob Boss Approach” to Statute of Limitations Reform in Pennsylvania, on Republic of Gilead—“The Catholic Church, with its long history of clergy sexual abuse of children, has opposed statute of limitations reform in California, New York, and other states.”