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There are things we don't know yet. There's not enough data being collected on children. But there are things that are known. The fact that we're not sure about children doesn't discredit things that are known.

The evidence on vitamin D is pretty weak. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/no-evidence-that-vitamin-d-can-prevent-or-treat-covid-19#Confounding-factors

Ive often thought that there’s an ambiguity in what “die for” actually means, and that Lutherans and Calvinists are using different definitions,

I should note that both commentaries I checked on 1 Cor assume that Paul is following a common Jewish belief, in which only the righteous rise. If so, and the full effects of Christ's death are eschatological, then it could be universal, but only applying to those who are present at the end. I...

I don't know whether I'm a universalist (because of Jesus' teachings), but I'm convinced that Paul was close. The primary reason is 1 Cor 15. But I think the argument that Paul says Christ died for everyone is really clear. While people have cited many relevant statements 1 Cor 15:22 seems...

I disagree with penal substitution root and branch, but this is an exaggeration of what it means. Since Calvin is typically considered the originator of penal substitution (though I'm skeptical), I looked through his Institutes for all occurrences of "wrath." It's pretty clear that it does not...

I agree with you. But in this case Stedman is dead (1992), so this isn't self-promotion. I have no idea whether it's deserved, as I've never heard of him.

On the net, Tom Wright. But most theologians and scholars don't have much net presence.

Simple. Penal substitution is wrong. There is nothing in the Bible saying that God needs to punish someone to forgive us. Jesus teaching about God is that he is eager to forgive. Nothing about needing a death first. Paul says in Rom 3:25 that God overlooked sin until Jesus. In Rom 6 he sees...

Yes. Studies had been halted when it appeared that the drug was too dangerous.

Yes. But there are several others also. They don't show the dangers of the withdrawn study, but they also don't show benefit.

That is way low. The Post has a database. Here are 2019 numbers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/. 376 out of 811 whose race was known (1004 total). I agree that you really need more context. What are difference in crime rates and armed criminals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine

What’s interesting is that all the justices agreed that the state could expect churches to follow the same standards as everyone else. The minority argued (implausibly);that California wasn’t doing that.

The actual quote from a council member seems to say that they want to abolish the current department and create a new one, which will be substantially different. Not that they want to have no police. there might be fewer police, if many calls they currently handle are dealt with by other types...

In the last few years I’ve started thinking about what happens to Christian theology in the absence of a Fall. I agree that from a biological point of view it appears that we are designed to learn from mistakes, and were never morally perfect nor intended to be. It would be possible to regard...

biblical inerrancy

Absolutely. Op eds are different. But it turns out that the act actually has provisions specfically intended to allow companies to drop things that advocate violence and do something about obvious lies. So constitutional experts are saying that Trump is wrong that Twitter is violating any law...

I think Zuckerberg may be specifically talking about people in office, not every posting with political implications.

We really do need fact checking. Even Republicans know that foreign countries are using social media to spread lies. I think fact checking Trump is unnecessary. His fans know he lies and don’t care, so the checks won’t do anything. But if checks are done, they need to be done consistently, so he...