(1) Baseball, Technology, and Humanity (The Jesuit Post)
***Now that my beloved St. Louis Cardinals are out of the postseason, I have time to contemplate whether or not onscreen visuals during baseball games are turning me into a bad fan.
p.s. Here’s the Countdown to Spring Training.
(2) Is Your Church ‘True’? 8 Checks from Billy Graham
(3) United Methodist and Episcopalian Church Clergy Lead Prayer Rally to “Bless” Abortion Clinic (LifeNews.com)
(4) Playboy Won’t Feature Nude Women. This Is Not a Victory for Feminism, (TIME)
“Playboy has stopped photographing women naked for the same reason that Pittsburgh no longer builds new steel factories: their customers found what they want in abundance elsewhere.”
Also: Bad News, Indeed — Playboy Opened the Floodgates and Now the Culture is Drowning, by Albert Mohler
“The headlines announcing that Playboy would no longer feature nude photographs of women looked like good news, but the underlying story is horrifying in moral terms. Playboy did open the floodgates and pornography now pervades the entire culture. Hefner’s moral philosophy and its underlying theology are now mainstream in America, and the current Playboy CEO can claim “that battle has been fought and won.” What you should hear in that claim of victory is the fall of an entire civilization and the moral consensus that made that civilization possible. Any morally sane person must recognize that as horrifyingly bad news, indeed.”
(5) The Perspicuity of Scripture, by Burk Parsons (Ligonier)
***It is ironic that the word “perspicuity” means “able to be understood”—given that most folks have trouble remembering what the word means…or even how to pronounce. However, in the case of Scripture, Christians believe that the Scripture can be understood.
Today is the 287th day of 2015. There are 78 days left in the year.
On this date in 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings. And in 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the White House as the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) candidate, went ahead with a speech in Milwaukee after being shot in the chest by New York saloonkeeper John Schrank, declaring, “It takes more than one bullet to kill a bull moose.” And in 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested the idea of a Peace Corps while addressing an audience of students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. [From AP]
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