Leadingchurch.com

HT. Sam Boldenow http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38166185

Princeton Is Latest Ivy League School to Suspend Team Over Vulgar Materials http://nyti.ms/2hMjWrv

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/15/best-books-2016/

JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, Founder and CEO, Acumen:  When I was six years old, my first grade nun, Sister Mary Theophane, beat it into my head to whom much is given much is expected.  And so, I always wanted to change the world.

I moved to Rwanda to help start the first micro finance bank and soon thereafter realized that most people don’t want saving.  Most people want choice and opportunity, which is another way of saying dignity

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/ceo-invests-dignity-others/

I thought of you when I read this quote from “Kierkegaard: A Single Life” by Stephen Backhouse –

“One of Hegel’s Big Ideas was that the historical development of art, religion, and philosophy told us something true about the development of the Divine Mind in the universe. The revelation of God was not to be found in a person or a holy text but in the development of a culture’s history. The unfolding Spirit is first encountered in a society’s art. This artistic expression is then given meaning and explanation in that society’s religion. Finally, it is philosophy that explains the religion. The Spirit is ever developing and thus the Divine is revealed in mankind’s highest achievements. To see the latest and best manifestation of the Divine Mind in the world, all one has to do is look at the latest and best manifestation of the world’s civilisation. The reader will be given no prizes for guessing whose art, religion, and philosophy the Western European Hegel thought was currently sitting on the top of the civilizational pile.”

Start reading this book for free: http://amzn.to/2gPGwzu

http://biologos.org/blogs/guest/scientists-find-feathered-dinosaur-tail-preserved-in-amber

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503129818/study-finds-students-have-dismaying-inability-to-tell-fake-news-from-real

NBC report on Macedonians and fake news. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fake-news-how-partying-macedonian-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies-n692451

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/12/valid-more-than-one-gender/

Some people feel strongly that they have a fixed gender, but my gender feels more like a performance. When I do my nails, for example, I’m performing a certain American version of femininity. When I’m playing sports, I’m performing a particular version of masculinity (though these things aren’t inherently feminine or masculine).

When I’m writing about non-binary identity, I’m performing one form of that gender. When I wear androgynous clothes, I’m performing another form.

It’s not fair to expect everyone to have only one gender when gender means so many different things in different cultures and subcultures to different people.

When it comes to your gender, nothing is disallowed, as long as you’re not hurting anyone. And the only way your gender identity can ever hurt anyone is if you try to impose it on somebody else. I’m no longer letting people do that to me.

“There is another way in which it may predispose to conversion. The difficulty of converting an uneducated man nowadays lies in his complacency. Popularized science, the conventions or ‘unconventions’ of his immediate circle, party programmes, etc., enclose him in a tiny windowless universe which he mistakes for the only possible universe. There are no distant horizons, no mysteries. He thinks everything has been settled. A cultured person, on the other hand, is almost compelled to be aware that reality is very odd and that the ultimate truth, whatever it may be, must have the characteristics of strangeness—must be something that would seem remote and fantastic to the uncultured. Thus some obstacles to faith have been removed already.”

https://ref.ly/o/chrstnrflctns/79928 via the Logos Bible Android app.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/madness-of-globalism/

Global inequality: http://glineq.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/should-some-countries-cease-to-exist.html