“Love” in the scriptures is typically a verb, e.g., “God so loved the world…” It describes an action that God does, not a feeling. God’s love is his acting in a loving way towards undeserving people.

And to this day the Confederate flag is viewed by many as acceptable (“it’s part of our culture”). Can you imagine flying a Nazi flag in modern Germany?

Christian theologians believe in the impassibility of God, which means that God does not have emotions as humans do. Then biblical texts where emotions are attributed to God are explained as anthropomorphism - God using human language to communicate his nature and actions.

My son insisted on a gift for Dirty Santa that was in a box encased in 8 more boxes, each wrapped beautifully. Apparently it was the first gift chosen, so everyone had to sit and watch each box be unwrapped.

Light it on fire first.

I don’t think you need a teaching certification to teach at community college. A master’s is probably all you need.

Quantitative finance. They want people with a math background to model the market.

You could also teach, either at the high school level or community college.

Mostly both.

Don’t forget The Man Drawer.

I’ll second 3blue1brown.

Scott Manley is, of course, mainly interested in rockets, but does cover sciencey things too (I believe he’s a former professional astronomer).

I like Cleo Abram’s “optimistic science” shorts.

Surely any roadblocks you put in place quickly by one party in power can be removed quickly by the other party in power. Again, I think what’s going to matter is those few people in the administration with standards and allegiance to the country over party, and loud outcries from the people when they touch something important.

I don’t think it’s crazy, just desperate for validation.

There is a myth in evangelical Christian circles, I believe acknowledged in the article, that candy canes have their color (white for purity, red for blood) and shape (upside-down J for Jesus) and taste (sweet like the gospel) to explicitly communicate Christian doctrines. There is even a children’s Christmas musical performed in churches at Christmas based on this principle. As much as one may approve of the doctrines, Christians holding steadfastly to a particular origin of candy canes regardless of the evidence seems dishonest and misguided, if not outright idolatrous to me.

The amount of candy cane myth that is believed wholesale and unquestioningly by modern American churches is amazing.

With some googling, I found on a forum a script you can use to download the text and bundle your own ESV Sword module. Try searching for ‘“ESV” sword module’.

Word is that E-Sword has an ESV license, and it doesn’t look terribly expensive.

They don’t publish an ESV Sword module any more, sorry! I have one I bought a while back, and have manually installed every time I change phones.

There aren’t AndBible modules, but the Sword modules are independent, so you can just install whatever modules you want with either front-end.

For additional Sword modules, try looking on Bible.org and CrossWire.

For me, something based around Sword is important, as it allows you to use a bunch of different Bible versions, commentaries, dictionaries and other works that you can freely download from various repositories. My app of choice is AndBible, and I recommend it wholeheartedly. I don’t know whether or not they collect any information, but I believe they do have a warning before you search for Sword modules, since accessing those databases can identify you as a Christian.

EDIT: No, sorry, the warning is on BibleTime, my desktop app of choice.

The British Empire was always a result of the British monarch ruling India, making the British monarch a King/Queen over other kings. When India gained independence from the British monarch after WW2, Britain could no longer claim to be an empire.