Source, with the final comment being incomprehensible: There is only one road, a few houses and a farm. But the French hamlet La Mort aux Juifs, about 70 miles south of Paris, has attracted international attention. Translated, the hamlet’s name reads, “Death to Jews.” For centuries, nobody really seemed to care about it. This changed Monday, however, when the Jewish Simon Wiesenthal Center sent a letter to France’s interior minister. The fact that “it was unnoticed during seventy years since... Read more

CNN: Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — While Michael Brown appeared to tussle with an officer before he was shot dead, he didn’t enter the police cruiser as authorities claim he did, two witnesses told CNN. The women’s accounts corroborate that of a previous witness, all three of whom said the officer fatally shot the unarmed teen. Police have said the black 18-year-old died in a dangerous struggle after trying to grab the officer’s weapon. Not so, say the witnesses. “It looked as... Read more

This series on the gospel of the kingdom and Alcoholics’ Anonymous 12 step program is by T, our lawyer friend who has been part of this blog since we began. The King Jesus Gospel  & AA– 1 I think being raised Southern Baptist has helped give me a lifelong curiosity in ‘the gospel’ and evangelism and I hope to always keep it. Over the last decade or so, though, the work of several authors (Wright, McKnight, Willard, Gorman to name... Read more

Source: New survey research shows that Christians who support same-sex marriage are more likely to hold permissive views on other sexual morality issues, such as divorce and pornography, similar to the general population and far different from Christians who support traditional marriage. The “Relationships in America” survey, conducted by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus, interviewed 15,738 Americans between the ages of 18 and 60. From that sample, Regnerus compared the average views on a range of sexual morality issues... Read more

The guy sitting next to me on the flight from Chicago to LA was friendly . . .  congenial . . . jolly is probably the appropriate word for this guy.  We were flying Southwest, where seats are not assigned, so when I freely chose the seat next to him, he made a self-deprecating joke because he’s a large man; he confessed his worry that no one really wanted to sit by him because of his size. We exchange pleasantries…... Read more

Source: A terrifying jihadist group is conquering and butchering its way across big swaths of Iraq and Syria. Planes are falling out of the sky on what seems like a weekly basis. Civilians are being killed in massive numbers in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Others are falling prey to Ebola in West Africa. The world, in short, is falling apart. That’s how it feels, at least, to those of us who sit at a blessed remove from the death and destruction,... Read more