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New CRC findings reveal a majority of Americans identifying as Christians believe ‘being and doing good’ will earn them salvation—including nearly half of those attending evangelical churches. Source: NEW STUDY: New Barna/CRC research reveals American—and Christian—views on salvation deeply flawed

New CRC findings reveal a majority of Americans identifying as Christians believe ‘being and doing good’ will earn them salvation—including nearly half of those attending evangelical churches. Source: NEW STUDY: New Barna/CRC research reveals American—and Christian—views on salvation deeply flawed

I begin with a personal story to make a greater point. Two weeks ago, I mailed an 8-by-10-inch envelope from a Miami post office to an address in New York State. The postage was correct, as were the address and ZIP code. Source: Cal Thomas: Trump Is Right About Mail-in Ballots

Kamala Harris? Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris? Out of all of Biden’s options, he chose the rival whose presidential campaign is best remembered for her attack on him, contending he opposed busing? The rival who said the way he described his relationship with old segregationists was “hurtful”! Source: Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s VP Pick | National Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has created any number of logistical problems for the entertainment industry. Production schedules have been interrupted, stalled or completely discontinued; late-night chat show hosts have been broadcasting out of their own homes; and now producers are faced with the challenge of how to show intimacy while keeping the actors socially-distanced. Source: COVID Concerns Force Hollywood to… |…

The head of a parental TV watchdog group is calling on Netflix to remove from its lineup “365 Days,” a graphic Polish film about a woman imprisoned for a year, ostensibly as a concubine. “If Netflix does not immediately remove this film from its platform and stop profiting from this pro-sex trafficking, pro-rape, and pro-kidnapping film, we will take our…

The head of a parental TV watchdog group is calling on Netflix to remove from its lineup “365 Days,” a graphic Polish film about a woman imprisoned for a year, ostensibly as a concubine. “If Netflix does not immediately remove this film from its platform and stop profiting from this pro-sex trafficking, pro-rape, and pro-kidnapping film, we will take our…

Congress is considering spending an additional $105 billion on education as part of a Phase IV COVID-19 relief package called the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection, and Schools (HEALS) Act. Source: In COVID-19 Bill, Schools Need Funding Flexibility, Not Another Federal Bailout | The Heritage Foundation

On July 10 at Walled Lake Western High School in Michigan, popular teacher Justin Kucera who taught AP World History and coached varsity baseball and basketball and who by all accounts never brought his politics into his teaching or coaching was fired for tweeting, “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our president.”

Schools are essential to the functioning of our society, and that makes teachers essential workers.

Those things with which we are most familiar are often hardest to see. This is perhaps particularly true of such fraught subjects as politics. There we are every day staring at the same people, reading news stories that are virtually indistinguishable from one another, and what do we know? Our situation is similar to Alice’s in Through the Looking Glass…