Blogaround

A mother duck and 6 baby ducks. Image source.

1. Six California police officers fatally shoot rapper found sleeping in car (posted February 13)

2. This is Horrible Advice on When to “Report Ministerial Misconduct” (posted February 15) Sarahbeth Caplin reviews a terrible article from The Gospel Coalition. My favorite part is when TGC claims that you should only report a crime if you can "prove the sin from Scripture."

3. This Twitter thread about how to fix the glaring inefficiencies and safety hazards of the Monsters Inc scare floor. (posted February 18)

4. We Will Not Be Silent: An Indictment Against APU (posted February 18) "I thought you might be interested to know that Azusa Pacific University is moving to eliminate term tenure for all faculty and will now require faculty to affirm new faith statements against LGBTQ people."

5. Puppetgate (posted February 18) "Non-Autistic Autism Advocate: 'I went to see it and it was SO GOOD. I totally forgot that Laurence was a puppet he seemed so much like a real autistic child in that he was not human and he didn’t even feature that much in the play.'"

6. Reporters Must Do Better on Abortion: Six Facts You Should Know (posted February 5) "The [anti-choice] movement has invented non-medical terms like 'partial birth abortions' and 'dismemberment abortions,' and has been successful in getting these terms used in legislation and the media."

7. Christian Group to Show 4-D Ultrasounds in NYC as Part of Anti-Abortion Campaign (February 19) 3rd-trimester ultrasounds. Can you believe this. Nobody is having an abortion in the 3rd trimester- unless there is some horrible, heartbreaking health problem with their WANTED and LOVED BABY. But "pro-life" people want you to think a typical abortion is ending a perfectly-healthy 3rd-trimester pregnancy for no reason at all. This is disgusting.

8. Making Sympathetic Antagonists (And Why Thanos Wasn’t One) (posted January 25) "Or, instead of saying, 'We don’t trade lives,' Steve’s main objection to Thanos’s scheme could have been, 'Germany thought mass murder of some of their citizens would help the rest, but it didn’t.'"

9. Abuse of Faith (posted February 10) [content note: child sexual abuse] "20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms"