YouTube: 6-year-old girl arrested, handcuffed at Florida charter school for ‘acting out’
AP: Trump to detail US coronavirus efforts in 6:00 pm ET press conference
POLITICO: White House considers appointing coronavirus czar
Media stokes panic . . .
- THE ATLANTIC: You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
- NPR: Health Officials Warn Americans To Plan For The Spread Of Coronavirus In U.S.
- YAHOO FINANCE: Coronavirus has ravaged the stock market and the extreme selling may just be starting
- BUSINESS INSIDER: ‘The worst is yet to come’: Global stocks are under pressure as fears mount of a coronavirus pandemic
Could the government force your church to stop meeting for worship over Coronavirus fears?
Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : “I had a conversation with my family over breakfast this morning. And I told my children that while I didn’t think that they were at risk right now, we, as a family, need to be preparing for significant disruption of our lives,” she said.
Those measures could include school closings, workplace shutdowns and canceling large gatherings and public events, she warned.
Lent Begins Today. What is it?
Scot McKnight: Lent’s Faux-Fasting
“The Bible urges us to move away from seeing fasting as something done in order to get something, and exhorts us to learn to see it as a response to some grievous or sacred moment/event. “
Michigan church offers ‘drive-thru ashes’ on Ash Wednesday
God & Politics
First Things: A Gay Couple in the White House
“If Christian teaching is wrong to oppose homosexual acts, then so are those who oppose Buttigieg because he is married to a man. If the Christian view is irrational, so are political judgments based upon it. But if Christian teaching is correct to reject homosexual acts, then it is eminently reasonable to oppose a candidate whose election would normalize them.”
Jon Meacham: Why Religion Is the Best Hope Against Trump
“Yes, Christianity has been an instrument of repression, but in the living memory of Americans it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress — which feeds the hope that it can become a force for good once more.”
God & Culture
National Review: Democrats Block Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the Senate
Forty-one Democratic senators voted this afternoon to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, successfully filibustering the legislation and preventing it from receiving a final vote. The bill would have required doctors to provide standard medical care to newborn infants who survive abortion procedures.
National Review: Sasse Debunks Democratic and Media Lies about His Born-Alive Bill
“There’s nothing in the bill that’s about abortion. Nothing,” Sasse said today. “It’s about infanticide. That’s the actual legislation. And you’ve got 44 people over there who want to hide from it and talk in euphemisms about abortion because they don’t want to defend the indefensible, because you can’t defend the indefensible.”
Headlines Distort the Nature of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act:
- Politico: Anti-abortion bills fail to advance in Senate vote
- The Hill: Democrats block two Senate abortion bills
- CNN: Two abortion restriction bills . . . fail in the Senate
- Roll Call: Senate rejects effort to advance two anti-abortion bills
First Things: Secular Monks
“For a secular monk, the only knowable pursuits are human pursuits, the only genuine aims human aims. A secular monk is “secular” in the sense that his cares and his projects are delimited by his day and his world. He can conceive of nothing else.”