1. Two amendments introduced by Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry that passed the House tonight (description from a Hill staffer who works on religious-liberty issues):
Our first amendment expresses the Sense of Congress that safe areas should be secured for the resettlement and reintegration of ethnic and religious minorities, including victims of genocide, into their homelands, further affirming that this position is critical to our security strategy in Iraq.
Our second amendment empowers local security forces in Iraq—including ethnic and religious minority groups—to deter, hold, or roll back ISIS. These local security forces include Christian (Assyrian Chaldean Syriac) and Yezidi groups.
2.
Christians, our Lord Jesus Christ is a Jew, of the tribe of Judah. Anti-semitism, or alliance with anti-Semitism, is literally anti-Christ.
— Russell Moore (@drmoore) May 18, 2016
3. Syria’s bishops go online to ask for end to EU sanctions
4. Religion-driven hostility to Christians follows them to German refugee centres
Flashback: Something beautiful in a German refugee center.
5. Eric Metaxas has the making of a new country song: “The Nuns Fought the Law (and the Nuns Won)”
6. From a Yale professor on the New York Times website today:
The administration has ignored the notice-and-comment process for other controversial rules — on campus sexual harassment, and on the legal status of millions of undocumented immigrants (which is before the Supreme Court), for example. By ignoring it in this case, it has aborted a much-needed public debate over whether identity-based bathroom use can and should be regulated as a legal right, or merely left as an option.
7. From John Allen: Bridging the gap between logic and emotion on sex abuse lawsuits
8. A fatherly response to the bathroom edict from Lincoln, Nebraska: Time for Healing, Not Lamenting
9. The Acton Institute recognizes Ryan T. Anderson for his good and tireless work work.
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To open a window on a lost world, listen to the accent of the announcer on this 1946 BBC Symphony broadcast: https://t.co/DQqknLgOgI
— Terry Teachout (@terryteachout) May 18, 2016
PLUS:
My Q&A with Mindy Belz about her new book on persecuted Christians.
Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (May 18, 2016)