Web curations (12 Mar)

#music

Whose songs are played more than Katy Perry’s each week? Chris Tomlin, king of the sing along. Eric Marrapodi and Tom Foreman share a bit more about the worship songwriter, whose latest album topped the US Billboard 200 charts in January.  In CCLI’s last two reporting periods, Tomlin had the No. 1 most-sung song and five of the top 25 (I wrote more about this and other thoughts here).  Tomlin: “I strive for trying to write something that people can sing, that people want to sing, and that people need to sing.”

#churchpolitics

CJ Mahaney steps down as President of Sovereign Grace Ministries – From Christianity Today: “C. J. Mahaney, founder of Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), will step down as its president effective April 12 in order to focus on being a local pastor. The news comes shortly after the beleaguered network of churches asked a Maryland court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging its leaders covered up the sexual abuse of children.”

#science

The ever-evolving appendix story  – I grew up being taught in science class that the appendix is an evolutionary left-over with no real function. Dr Jay Wile shows how scientists have changed their views and now believe that the appendix is so important it evolved over 30 times.

#satire

Vatican shocker: Cardinals choose Siri as next Pope – In a groundbreaking decision, “Siri becomes the first arguably female pope, the first battery-powered pope and, most important, the first truly infallible pope.”

Sadly, this is not the Onion – A website that collates stories that could feature in news satire website “The Onion”… except they’re all 100% true.

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“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.”
~ Oswald J. Smith ~

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