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How did it get to be Friday again? I thought we were just here. Anyway, I've got some interesting links to share with you today! 1. We've been hearing about the Amazon being on fire, but it turns out that Amazonian fires are an annual thing. It's worse this year, but it was almost this bad a few years ago. This article has several useful graphs to put the current crisis in perspective. But, still, the Amazon burning is bad and we should do something about it. Panic is not the correct response, though. 2. Our president says that doctors came out of operating rooms to see him when he visited hospitals in El Paso and Dayton. No, they didn't. That doesn't happen. Surgeons stay and do their work,

There's been a lot of stuff going on about abortion over the last couple of weeks to discuss. Let's see what's up. Evelyn Hernandez, 21, was raped and became pregnant in El Salvador. She didn't know that she was pregnant and accidentally gave birth in a primitive toilet at 31 weeks to a stillborn fetus. She was arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison because authorities claimed that she aborted and killed the baby. She served three years in prison and was now recently retried, found not guilty, and released. Evelyn is now pursuing education in English and computer science and pushing for the decriminalization of abortion. While there may need to be changes in El Salvador's abortion laws

Guess what! I'm doing Friday Finds actually on Friday! Here we go! 1. Evangelicals who support Trump are upset with his cursing. They aren't upset about caging kids or his racism, but using the Lord's name in vain is their limit. 2. The New Independent Fundamental Baptists, a new group of churches that are spewing hate in small churches and on YouTube. 3. John Fea has an excellent review on the Netflix series "The Family". 4. What happens when a medical abortion fails or is incomplete? This woman's perspective is from the UK, so the administrative details are different than in the US. 5. Russia did admit that radioactive materials were involved in the explosion near the White Sea. 6. A Salva

Patrick and I have been watching a number of things on TV this summer and have seen a theme - secrecy and lies. And it never turns out well. And it carries over into every day life. Eventually, the truth comes out, but the lies and secrecy create quite a lot of havoc in the meantime. Early in July, we watched The Vietnam War documentary series by Ken Burns. Patrick and I were both woefully uneducated about the late 20th century. What was so striking was how little the government was telling the American people about the war. At times, the military would flat out lie to the politicians about the state of the war. And, after a certain point, no one believed that the war was winnable, but the m

I bookmarked tons of articles for this week's Friday Finds, but I've sifted through to just give you the best ones. I've posted some other interesting things on my Still Christian Facebook page. 1. Dr. Kent Brantly is an American missionary who survived Ebola after being transferred to Emory University. At the time, Trump was opposed to him coming back to the US. 2. There are an increasing number of women considering a vocation as a Catholic nun. 3. Sex selective abortions have left a section of India with no baby girls for three months. 4. A pro-choice doctor considers the limits of her beliefs. How far is too far? 5. Trump wants to regulate Twitter and Facebook. 6. This is literally close

Here's some good stuff that Patrick and I have found this summer. 1. Chernobyl - I follow Craig Mazin, the screenwriter and producer of this series on Twitter, so I'd seen a lot of stuff on his feed as the series was rolling out on HBO. I figured we'd have to wait a year or so to watch it since we don't get HBO. I thought. One day, I was scrolling through our TV channels and noticed the the HBO channels aren't blocked. Apparently, the last time I adjusted our cable channels, I got HBO for us! So, Patrick and I watched Chernobyl on HBO on Demand! And then we listened to the associated podcast. And read a book about Chernobyl. And watched a Frontline documentary about the building of the "sarc

It's already August!! Where has the time gone? I've found a number of interesting things around on the internet, so let's go! 1. Some parents of college bound kids are giving up parental rights to make their kids eligible for need-based financial aid. Sigh. 2. A character on a TV show attempts an abortion using an herbal tea. ACOG does not recommend this. 3. More about the link between contraception access and abortion. 4. A profile of an anti-LGBTQ "church" in California. 5. There's a scholarly book out about The Museum of the Bible. Looks like it will be worth a read. 6. Here's a great article by Dr. William Barber about the southern border crisis. It deserves your attention. Enjoy this li