Jesus on dinosaurs, teachers on strike…it was another busy week here at ILYBYGTH International. Here are a few stories that caught our eye. Thanks to everyone who sent in stories and tips…
“Jesus Rode a Dinosaur:” Christian conference seeks to help youth pastors do a better job talking about science, at RNS. HT: GB.
Where your Templeton money is going…
Could it work? Arne Duncan calls for a school boycott to change gun laws. At TP.
The wrong answer to school shootings: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at CNN.
- Patrick’s using the oldest trick in the book, at ILYBYGTH.
The latest on teacher strikes:
- Teacher strikes spread to South Carolina, at Greenville News.
- Peter Greene on the real deal with teachers’ strikes: “The nationwide teacher shortage is simply a slow motion teacher walkout.”
- Cry me a river, greedy teachers. At CJ.
- Strikes show the weakness of market-minded “reform.” Thomas Frank in The Guardian.
President Carter gently mocks Trump at Liberty commencement, at RNS.
- Why would Liberty invite Carter in the first place? My two cents at The Conversation.
- Did Jerry Falwell Jr. get his wish? John Fea says no, at TWOILH.
Proof: AZ changed science standards to make room for creationism, at 12NEWS.
Science missionaries confront hostile creationist locals, at BioLogos.
Christian college administrators tend to censor student newspapers, at IHE.
- That’s not the exception, but the historic rule. Here at ILYBYGTH.
Why do conservatives hate public schools? One conservative’s argument at AP.
I Love You but You're Going to Hell 
Dan Knauss
/ May 28, 2018Here’s a story to add that needs to be picked up in the press: Warren Throckmorton’s entire blog has been deleted from Patheos with very little warning for very sketchy, vague reasons.
I pointed out to Warren and John Fea on Twitter that Patheos+BeliefNet is now owned by Jay Sekulow and Co. — people to his fundraising and investment vehicles with shared ties to Dobson’s FoF, Pat Robertson, the NRA, the ACLJ, and other entities Throckmorton has criticized, including Sekulow who is “Trump’s lawyer.”
All the old posts are restored now at wthrockmorton.com, but this is still a serious loss. Patheos has twice the reach of Christianity Today and a unique position at the lead of English-language religion and spirituality sites. The number of quality experts at Patheos like Warren — scholars and journalists — also makes this repressive action a significant negative.
Dan Knauss
/ May 28, 2018*people connected to.
If you do some searching in Bloomberg and other corporate board record trackers, you will see who controls BN Media LLC now.