Your Best Links Now – 4/2/14

Evangelicals Opposed Abortion Much Earlier Than You Think by Dale Coulter

“More and more writers—most recently Jamelle Bouie—are confidently asserting that Evangelicals were once pro-choice, but under the influence of Religious-Right organizations like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority became prolife. This interpretation of the Evangelical position largely stems from Jonathan Dudley’s memoir of his own journey as an evangelical in the Midwest. The book led to a brief exchange between Dudley and Mark Galli at Christianity Today (see here, here, and here). An accurate reading of history tells a different tale—one of longstanding (though not exceptionless) Evangelical opposition to abortion . . .”

Aged Out of Church by Michelle Van Loon

This is an important article for church leaders to consider. Van Loon writes, “Church should be a place of meaningful connection with God and others at every stage of our lives, but nearly half of more than 450 people who participated in an informal and completely unscientific survey I hosted on my blog last year told me that their local church had in some painful ways exacerbated the challenges they faced at midlife.”

Teen Proves the US Could Save Millions If We Just Changed Our Font

I’ve already changed my own typeface for the writing I print from Times New Roman to Garamond.

A Woman Who Was Born and Abandoned in a Bathroom at Burger King Finds Her Mother

“Katheryn Deprill’s journey to finding her biological mother, who abandoned her in a Burger King bathroom 28 years ago, has come to an end. Three weeks after publishing a Facebook post asking for help finding the woman who left her in the fast food restaurant’s bathroom, Deprill was reunited with her mom on Monday, ending the viral search for the woman . . .”

The Theology of Homestar Runner by Fred Sanders

“Like the Peanuts gang, Homestar characters wander around a minimalist landscape in a perpetual after-school zone, but in this case it’s a kind of Twilight of the Fhqwgads . . .”

Baby Walks on Patch of Ice

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