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A La Carte (12/13)

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Tuesday November 13, 2005

Money: Business Reform asks whether Christians should profit from sin and compares values-based mutual funds to vice-based funds. Guess which one outperforms the other.

Du Jour: Marc at Purgatorio hits another home run with a new photo collection entitled Help! I’m Going Hyper!.

Entertainment: I think the moral of this story has more to do with parenting and parental responsibility than it does with video games.

Zzzzzz: “The busyness of Christmas and New Year’s can make sermon preparation difficult. This holiday season, we hope to make your preparation a little easier! “Let this CD (Holiday Message Transcript Collection CD) offering 34 transcripts of Rick Warren’s most effective holiday messages help you.” (link)


  • Execution

    Would You Attend Your Son’s Execution?

    I have never known a mother whose son was executed, much less a mother whose son was executed despite being provably innocent. Though I can’t ask, I have sometimes wondered: Is it typical for a mother to attend her son’s execution? 

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    Slop / The Boeing 747 begins its final descent / Peter Stafford trusted God, he was still afraid to die of Ebola / Why kinship societies kill their old / If we don’t speak for the unborn, who will? / Dispelling the overpopulation myth / Will the Safe Social Media Act make the internet safer?

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    IVF and the fractured right / Who should be admitted to the Lord’s Supper? / Dying a slow death well / Moral plausibility structures / Should children serve before belonging? / Skillet’s “Monster” / Child euthanasia / Kindle deals for Christians.

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    Felix Nmecha / Political bias in AI bots / What Jesus meant by “judge not” / Adding value to the world / Always because of God’s glory / Death is the ultimate perspective / Think more biblically / Kindle deals / and more.