To celebrate Black History Month, Engadget is running a series of profiles honoring African-American pioneers in the world of science and technology. Today we take a look at the life and work of Jerry Lawson.
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I was on the bus back to college from my hometown when I heard him.
It was 9:30a.m. bus full of tourists, workers, and students headed to the city. He had been in line with who I believed to be his wife or serious partner right behind me as we filed onto the bus. He had been muttering complaints of some sort, but I was ignoring the chatter and focusing on finding a good seat. I got a seat right in front of this grumbling man and his lady, not thinking anything of it when it all started.
“Thanks to YOU, we’re going to be late! I told you!”
His grumbling had turned into a roar. The bus went dead silent.
He continued on, “You’re so stupid! I told you! We’re going to be late. You’re stupid!”
The woman whimpers like a puppy, “I’m sorry.”
“Yeah well, thanks. Can’t count on you to do anything right. You’re stupid…again!”
“I’m sorry,” she whispered.
“You’re always sorry, aren’t you? You’re ridiculous.”
The shouting goes on. The whimpering proceeds the shouting. I am feeling utterly uncomfortable for this poor woman and furious at this man. How is she tolerating this? What’s wrong with her? How is he so rude and vile? I decide to stand up, turn around, and face him in the seat behind me.
“Excuse me — but be quiet! No one wants to hear you scream at your wife! No one wants to listen to this nonsense on the bus. You wanna abuse your wife? Not in front of me. Not on this bus.”
I looked around at the passengers on the bus, hoping for some solidarity in case this man pulled out a knife or something. All the women were nodding their heads like, “Damn right. We’re with you.”
The wife, the whimpering puppy, gave me this look that said, “Thank you. Thank you so much.”
The man finally shut up and was quiet for the whole ride back.
Eleven years later, I still envision myself strong and firm on that bus. I remember wondering why that woman didn’t just tell him where to go. Why she was on the bus with him in the first place. It’s so easy when it’s not you, to point out folks in bad relationships and marriages. It’s so easy to say, “Why is he or she staying in that situation?” Yet it is a whole other ball game when it’s you in those shoes. When you are the woman being yelled at on the bus.
My ex-husband was neither that aggressive nor nasty especially in the beginning few years in which he was lovely, but in the last two years of our marriage, there were times when he said things that cut me right down to the bone. Things you should never tell the person you love but then again, he probably just didn’t love me anymore at that point. He would say later on that he was angry–that’s why he said it. When I said that being angry didn’t make it right each time he would say, “But you made me mad. You made me say it.”
He wasn’t accountable. It was me who had made him do that! But I didn’t put a gun to his head and ask to be called stupid. And I am no Mother Theresa. While I was never that angry or hurtful, there were times when I said hurtful and mean things, especially after being stabbed metaphorically in my gut. But I always apologized. Why? Because I cared about him and knew that I had chosen to say that. No one else had made me. I wasn’t perfect but I never tried to tear him down.
When you are the one who is being lashed out at…it’s difficult to step aside from the situation and tell yourself, “I’m not really a bad person. This person has issues and is unhappy with him/herself. He’s hurting over many things. It’s not about me.” All I felt was, “I must be dumb, etc.”
I drank in his words as if they were biblical.
I was just like that woman sitting on the bus being screamed at. I was hanging on to the marriage still. I couldn’t walk away yet because I believed what I was hearing and I was afraid. If I was indeed this awful, would I end up dying alone? I questioned my own worth until finally, I couldn’t take being unhappy anymore. I couldn’t take seeing him unhappy anymore. So I suggested we quit our third round of failed marriage counseling and finally divorce already.
I got off the bus.
Today, my ex and I get along well, although there are conflicts and tense periods in which I remember why we are divorcing. There was a lot of relief for both of us in finally admitting defeat after two separations and so much counseling. I don’t think he is a bad guy. Quite the contrary! I think he was an unhappy man with a lot of emotion buried inside. I hope one day he can find the woman he thinks is right for him. That he can find light at the end of the tunnel and happiness.
Since we separated, I have felt better month by month. It has been baptism by fire but the rebirth has been amazing. I finally feel hope. I finally have the strength to say, “Don’t treat me that way. “
To the lady on the bus, I hope you found that strength too.
Big projects. Looming deadlines. Colleagues springing last-minute changes on you. Budgets to manage. Pressure to make cut-backs. Peoples’ jobs on the line. Peoples’ health, well-being or livelihood resting squarely on your shoulders.
Whether you make sandwiches for a living, perform open-heart surgery, or run a multi-national corporate conglomerate, there are always going to be workplace demands, pressures, and situations that test your patience… and inner peace.
It can be tempting to “escape” a stressful day — or “reward” yourself for getting through a tough time — with a pint of ice cream, a few cocktails, or both.
While the occasional indulgence is perfectly fine… but, over time? All those nightly “rewards” can expand your waistline — while shrinking and diminishing your quality of life.
Not particularly rewarding, after all.
So how about being incredibly generous to yourself, and make time for these 5 psychologist-approved stress relief techniques. They can help you manage job-related stress without turning to food or booze — turning, instead, to your own inner resources.
Your own inner strength. (You’ve got more than you think.)
1. Visualize Your Ideal Day, Right Away.
When you wake up in the morning, before you hop out of bed, visualize (or imagine) your entire workday as you’d like it to be. See yourself handling difficult situations with strength. See yourself communicating with clarity and grace.
Tell yourself: “I can create this kind of day. I can feel this way. I’ve got the strength.”
(Professional athletes do this type of visualization before a big game. It’s been shown to dial up positivity and improve performance. Very powerful!)
2. Stay Right Where You Are.
When you’re feeling “stressed,” it’s generally because you’ve temporarily “left” the present moment. You are worrying about the future or obsessing about the past. Don’t leave this moment. Stay right where you are.
Yes, of course, there are times where we all need to think about the future — making a marketing plan, budgeting for the next quarter, or whatever your job demands. But there’s a difference between “thoughtful planning” and flat out “worrying.”
It’s very difficult to work productively when your “emotional desktop” is cluttered with regrets, anger, unresolved grief about the past and / or anxiety about the future. Do everything in your power to return to the present. Trust that you can handle whatever is happening in this moment, gracefully. Breathe. Be here now.
3. Put Strong Emotions “On The Shelf.”
Some days are incredibly tough — it’s true. Maybe you made a major mistake on a project, a colleague yelled at you inappropriately, or something happened outside of work that you carried into the office.
Pouring out your emotions is a healthy thing to do — but obviously, work is not the ideal place to do it.Try to set strong feelings “on the shelf,” temporarily, until you’re in a more private, safe place. You’re not “repressing” your emotions — you’re simply putting them aside until you can address them and release them properly.
Setting feelings aside is no different than prioritizing your to-do list. Some things you do now… others, you attend to later.
4. Once Work Is Over: Release Strong Emotions Safely.
When you release pent-up emotions safely and appropriately — at home, in private — that means you’ll be able to walk into work the next day feeling light and unburdened. Way less stressed out!
There are safe ways to release strong emotions. The most effective method I know of, involves a form of psychodrama and catharsis. You literally thwack a pillow with a hand towel that’s knotted on one end, while expressing your feelings out loud (“I hate my bossssss!” “I’m sooo stressed out!”) until you feel a sense of relief.
(Curious? You can learn more about this particular technique inside my series of guidebooks on emotional health… or just give it a try! You might be surprised at the way this “thwacking” experience can turn around your entire day.)
5. Surround Yourself With Reminders Of Your Strength.
Tell a child “you are stupid” enough times, and pretty soon, that child will believe it. Over the course of your life, you may have “learned” to think about yourself in a certain way — “You’re weak and soft,” “You’re not creative,” “You never do anything right” — from your parents, teachers, or other authority figures.
Whatever hurtful, negative things you learned to think about yourself? You can un-learn them, too. Change the storyline by surrounding yourself with reminders of your strength and value.
You could choose a desktop wallpaper design for your computer that motivates and inspires you. You could play uplifting music through your headphones. You could put a photo of one of your personal heroes — a teacher, a mentor, a favorite athlete or spiritual teacher — by your desk.
Or write your favorite positive affirmation on a Post-It note and place it near your desk. Perhaps this one:
There is nothing I cannot handle. Nothing I cannot overcome. The strength inside of me is greater than anything happening around me.
Inspiring photos and positive affirmations won’t “magically” change your life, but when combined with other practices (like the towel-thwacking technique described above, which purges pent-up emotions) these types of visual and verbal “reminders” can help you to stay calm, focused, and on track.
Above all, remember this:
Distractions will always be present at work. There will always be challenges and “fires” to put out — no matter where you work, or what kind of position you have. (Even yoga teachers, cupcake bakers and watercolor painters have “drama” in the workplace, from time to time!)
You can’t always control your environment, your colleagues’ behavior, or what’s going to “happen” on any given day at work. You’re not “in charge” of everything and everyone around you. But you are in charge of your own emotions. You can choose to “let things get under your skin”… or you can choose to let things go, release negative emotions in a safe, healthy way, and move on.
You can choose to fret about the future or obsess over the past… or you can choose to stay right here, right now, engaged in your current task. Your feelings and behaviors are entirely your own.
And if you’re feeling stressed? That’s something you can change, right now, without needing your manager’s “approval” or anybody else’s permission. Your mind. Your day. Your job. Your life. You are in charge.
I must say, filling up my 20 gallon gas tank for $35 instead of $65 feels kind of nice. I know I’m not alone in feeling the price ease — Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been inundated with #GasPrices photos.
Regardless of the gas price burden being lifted, the economist in me is going crazy. Low gas prices could result in some unintended and painful consequences. My advice? Be optimistically cautious.
Over the last few months, I have been perplexed at the speed in which oil prices have shot through the floor. Barrels are transacting as low as $46. Though everyone, including myself, is enjoying the extra spending money, gas price reduction should be considered with caution. Here are three reasons why the low gas prices are not all they’re cracked up to be:
1. Gasoline “Savings” Is a Myth
A few years ago I watched a fascinating PBS documentary titled Mind over Money. In the documentary, NOVA presented a very telling experiment exposing the irrational human behavior around money decisions (pbs.com).
In this special, several couples were interviewed and asked the following question: “If you were given the choice to receive $100 in one year or $102 in one year and one day, which option would you take?” The blanket response amongst those interviewed, was they would wait the extra day for the $2.
The same couples were then presented with the same scenario, but with a simple change in time period. They were asked, “Would you take $100 today or $102 tomorrow?” The response shifted 180 degrees. Everyone answered “yes” to taking the $100 immediately.
According to the documentary, the rational choice in both scenarios would have been to wait for the extra money. However, the second scenario illustrates an individual’s logic being clouded with what behavioral economists call, present-bias (making an incorrect choice that your future self would have preferred to not make).
Like the experiment on NOVA, the gasoline “savings” euphoria is due to people’s present-bias. For example, the so-called gas savings that is underway is based on a projected annual savings of about $500 per year for the average family if they purchased the same amount of gasoline (US Energy Information Administration, EIA.com).
However, data from Cardlytics show that consumption of gasoline by the average American has risen six percent, in addition to an overall increase in spending at about four percent (cnbc.com). Although, Cardlytics states that the average savings per person, per month is $18, the same report also included the surprising spike in other consumer spending by $45 per month.
The $500 per year in gas savings becomes obsolete, considering consumer spending in restaurant and retail categories is on the rise. In reality, if Americans are spending $45 more per month, instead of saving $500 per year, they’re actually spending $540 per year! This is present-bias proof of the emotional mind trumping the logical mind when it comes to money.
2. Green Tech Innovation Halted
Instead of building more green technology, like fuel-efficient automobiles, low gas prices are causing the making of hybrid and electric vehicles to decrease. At one time, the purchase of popular vehicles like the Prius, Ford C-Max and the Honda Civic Hybrid were the highest sold vehicles in states like California. Since gas prices have dropped, those car companies have been hit with a double digit decrease in sales.
Americans are justifying the purchase of gas guzzlers because gas is now less expensive. Professor of energy economics, Chris Knittel, told the L.A. Times, “People are less likely to adopt more fuel-efficient vehicles, and companies have less incentive to invest in new technologies.” (LATimes.com)
3. The Tax Still Man Cometh
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, ¢42.52 is the average tax per gallon of gas (which includes federal tax of ¢18.4 and state tax of ¢24.12). (EIA.gov)
Since gas prices have plummeted, the federal government and several states have jumped on the opportunity to raise their respective per gallon tax. Senator Corker (R, Tennessee) has proposed a ¢12 per gallon hike from the ¢18.4 — that is over a 65 percent increase (Washingtonpost.com). Many other states like, North Carolina, Utah, Michigan and Wisconsin, are looking to increase the per gallon tax anywhere from ¢.05 to ¢.20.
Though falling gas prices are affording Americans some financial breathing room, the dramatic drop is in no way an indication that we are approaching utopia. To stay ahead of the curve and keep yourself financially free from swift economic turns, I suggest spending with an alert fiscal conscience. Taxes and inflation already rob the majority of us of our hard-earned money, let’s not allow the mask of low gas prices do the same.
In his recent address during a summit on terrorism, President Obama refused to equate or even connect Islam with terrorism, or to paint the atrocities by ISIL and Al-Qaida as Islamic. Obama prefers to refer to the atrocities in the Middle East as a sort of non-denominational extremism, stating, ISIL and Al-Qaida “Are not religious leaders — they’re terrorists. And we are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”
Obama has spent a lot of time in public rhetoric systematically detaching Islam from terrorism.
Lots of people are pissed about this, and it’s not just the conservative right.
Max Fisher of Vox, stated in his article, “Obama should stop pretending Islamist terrorism has nothing to do with Islam” that Obama “Has veered so far into downplaying Islamist extremism that he appears at times to refuse to acknowledge its existence at all” and that there are real consequences to not connecting terrorism with Islam, stating, “Obama, by refusing to acknowledge that there is such a thing as Islamist extremism, has tied his own hands; he cannot draw a distinction between Islam and Islamist extremism if he pretends the latter does not exist.”
Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard recently went public, denouncing the president saying “I’m upset that the President and the White House… [are] not actually saying, ‘This is a war that the Islamic extremists are posing against the United States and against the West and we recognize who our enemy is and come up with a strategy to defeat that enemy.”
So what’s the problem? Is Obama making a mistake? Is he being weak? Why doesn’t he just come out and “call a spade a spade,” name these monsters as Islamic extremists. Why doesn’t he “identify” our enemy?
I have lots of issues with elements of the foreign policy of the administration, but I would like to give you some color on this based on my time in Afghanistan over the years, as well as two years in Pakistan and around the Middle East.
This concerted effort to disconnect Islam and Terrorism is a rational one.
It has nothing to do with religion or Islam, it has everything to do with killing ISIL and Al Qaida efficiently. The fact that Obama isn’t connecting Islam and terrorism isn’t a reflection of “not identifying” our enemy, rather, just the opposite. It is that we have identified who our allies are and we want to keep them onside. Lumping terrorism with Islam will only weaken our position against ISIL and Al Qaida, and does not measurably help us in any way.
With due respect to Mr. Fisher, Congresswoman Gabbard, Sen. McCain and others who criticize the president on Islam and terrorism, I think taking the opposite approach to the current one would, frankly, be stupid.
What Nobody is Talking About:
Let’s put Obama’s recent comments into perspective. Right under our noses, the Obama administration has assembled what is perhaps the largest and broadest Islamic coalition force in history. Not long ago, because our relationships with Middle Eastern governments were so shitty, we had American teenagers with M-16s guarding truck stops in what is now ISIL controlled Iraq. We spent hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars with troops on the ground to pay for some big strategic mistakes we made in the invasion of this part of the world.
It was not exactly efficient.
If you want to kill members of ISIL and Al Qaida, AND you don’t want boots on the ground, you will need to build a diplomatic coalition. What we need to understand in this context is, currently, the people doing the vast majority of the fighting against ISIL and Al-Qaida (and the Taliban) are not Americans… in fact, the people doing the fighting against our enemy are Muslims. We need to respect that. This is perhaps one of the biggest strategic victories in coalition building we have seen in many years.
The Egyptians, the Iraqis, the Kurdish Pesh-Merga, the Emeratis, the Saudis, hell even the Iranians are bombing our enemies (supplemented by American intel. and coalition air power). This is no small feat, and this is perhaps the most efficient way to fight ISIL and Al Qaida. Imagine if we had taken this approach in Afghanistan or Iraq to start with.
The reason the Obama administration is consistently driving a wedge with its rhetoric between Islam and terrorism has nothing to do with some unquantifiable rationale on the relationship between Islam and terrorism. It’s not Obama’s job to engage in some dinner table conversation about religion and violence. Rather, his rhetoric is part and parcel of a very deliberate strategy to achieve our political and military aims using the coalition of Islamic states we have built in order to more efficiently kill terrorists. Make no mistake, it is a strategy, one you may not agree with, that has avoided boots on the ground to this point.
If you read the transcript of the president’s recent comments during their Islamic summit with this in mind, almost every paragraph is designed to divide ISIS from Islam, to peel ISIL away from it’s source of validation in order to give Islamic states like Turkey, Jordan and Iraq the political flexibility to justify a direct fight on their own soil with ISIL. This is unprecedented, this is a GOOD thing, and we should all be happy about it.
Think about costs and benefits here.
There is no quantifiable benefit whatsoever to connecting Islam with terrorism from a military or economic standpoint. None. In fact, by not driving a wedge between the two, and grouping both Islam and terrorism together, you only complicate the fight and make it more likely that we go back to sending our men and women overseas to do something that can be done for one tenth of the cost by a Kurdish fighter.
You Aren’t Crazy Just Because You See a Link
I am not saying that there are not good reasons to have theological and political discussions on the impact of religion on violence or human rights. I am not saying you are stupid because you think they are a link, or that you have no reason to be frustrated at our foreign policy.
What I am saying is that they are not measurably beneficial from the standpoint of a Commander-in-Chief to lump Islam and terrorism together. His job is to win a war, and lumping Islam with terrorism doesn’t help him do that. We should be behind him on that. What we want at the end is the maximum damage done to ISIL and al Qaida with the minimal cost to our people. How do we do that? We build an alliance and we kill ISIL without putting boots on the ground. How do we keep that up? We don’t go out and criticize the religion of all our allies without a VERY good reason.
Sometimes its ok to piss off other countries, but only if the benefits of pissing them off outweigh the costs. In this case, Obama’s comments about ISIL not being Islamic help provide political cover for Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and others to directly attack ISIL and Al Qaida. That should be what everyone wants. We should all be on the same page with this, whatever your political leanings are or what you view as the role of government, the outcome of Obama’s separating Islam and Terrorism leads to more dead terrorists and fewer American boots on the ground.
What If We Did the Opposite
Imagine a strategy with the opposite approach, imagine the leader of our military saying terrorism was Islamic or as Graeme Wood of the Atlantic said, “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.”
What would we gain strategically, economically or militarily if the president of the United States took a divisive political stance like that?
Do you think we would see the largest alliance between the United States and the Islamic world in history? Of course not. What you would get is a bunch of pissed off allies and a lot of closed doors, with American taxpayers and military personnel having to fill the void that is currently filled by Islamic nations in the fight against terror.
What Is the Gain?
So ask yourself, why are you so eager to lump the two together? What quantifiable and measurable strategic benefits arise which are better than having the largest Islamic coalition in history bombing what we all agree is the biggest threat to modern civilization? If you can come up with a better outcome, then by all means we should implement that.
I disagree strongly with a lot of the military foreign policy of this administration, particularly with regards to Afghanistan. In this case, I think everyone needs to be on the same page. Of course a dialogue within Islam is also an important. Of course Religion can play a role in creating violence, but Obama is avoiding that topic for measurable and beneficial reasons. I don’t expect this to totally change anyone’s mind overnight, but I think its worthwhile to consider this information as an element in your final calculation.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ben Woolf, an actor on “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” was in critical condition Friday after being hit by the side mirror of a passing vehicle in Hollywood.
The accident occurred Thursday night on Hollywood Boulevard just east of U.S. 101, police Officer Drake Madison said. Woolf, who is 4 feet 4 inches tall, was hit in the head and rushed to the hospital.
The motorist stopped at the scene and was not cited or arrested.
“Ben is one of the kindest and hardest-working people I know,” publicist Zack Teperman said in an email to The Associated Press. “His condition remains critical at this time, and we ask that everyone please keep Ben in your thoughts and prayers, and respect his family’s privacy during this time.”
Woolf has been a cast member on the FX show since 2011.
The age of hands-free hot cocktails is at hand. Don’t put your slow cooker in the corner–it’s good for far more than quietly stewing tough cuts of meat.
Load that big-batch juggernaut with booze for a winter party and revel in the shaker-less freedom of ready-to-serve Hot Buttered Rum and Mulled Wine. Guess what that means for your winter? More time to go a’wassailing–or whatever it is you do with your weekends.
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Bow down to the greats: Like all legendary, time-tested cocktails, the Hot Toddy keeps fuss to a minimum. The only modern invention that could simplify this stalwart further? A slow cooker. That game-changing device keeps the husky trio of Scotch, Demerara sugar and lemon slices at the ideal temperature, meaning all that’s left to do is bust out the nutmeg. Get the recipe.
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The key to this endlessly drinkable punch? A few wholesome glugs of brandy to balance out a bottle of Merlot. Add a harvest’s worth of fruit and spices–enter cranberries, orange peel, cloves and cinnamon–and let the wine simmer into crimson splendor. Get the recipe.
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Definitive proof that butter is criminally underestimated in cocktails, Hot Buttered Rum is an age-old cure-all–and way more satisfying than cold syrup. Perfect for when you can barely drag yourself out of bed, this version keeps it sick-day simple: Toss a bottle of dark rum into a slow cooker, followed by brown sugar, butter and spices. Then steep as you please. Get the recipe.
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Good luck finding more soothing company than rye whiskey, pumpkin, maple syrup and cinnamon. Can’t do it? That’s because the warm, spiced whiskey already has you under its spell–and there’s no turning away from a mug smothered in cinnamon whipped cream. Get the recipe.
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How do you wassail, exactly? The word stems from the early English phrase waes haeil, meaning “to be whole,” and was used as a toast to one’s health. Wassail eventually came to refer to a hot drink of ale, whole apples and spices. This evolved version replaces the somewhat questionable warm ale with apple cider and Calvados. Tip your hat at the old recipe by floating clove-studded baked apples in the steaming brew of cider, cranberry juice and spices. Get the recipe.
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Rob Bell, the widely popular and controversial former megachurch pastor, is now convinced that a church doesn’t support same-sex marriage will “continue to be even more irrelevant.”
Bell made the comments on an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday,” where he appeared with his wife Kristen to talk about religion and spirituality.
“One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness,” Bell said. “Loneliness is not good for the world. Whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural and healthy to want someone to go through life with. It’s central to our humanity. We want someone to go on the journey with.”
Bell notes that Christianity is evolving and that many Christians have already opened their hearts to the idea that two people of the same sex would choose to journey together.
In fact, he says the church’s acceptance of gay marriage is “inevitable.”
“I think culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago as their best defense, when you have in front of you flesh-and-blood people who are your brothers and sisters, and aunts and uncles, and co-workers and neighbors, and they love each other and just want to go through life,” he said.
Bell was founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in western Michigan. He raised eyebrows in 2011 with his book “Love Wins,” which questioned the existence of hell. Since then, he’s slowly drifted away from his evangelical roots. He’s now a spiritual adviser for Oprah Winfrey, appearing on the “Rob Bell Show” on Winfrey’s OWN television network.
His delves into his new ideas about love in a book he co-wrote with his wife, “The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage.”
But conservative Christian critics aren’t happy with Bell’s message.
Author Michael Brown accused Bell of trashing the Bible as an outdated text.
“The bad news is that many professing Christians are capitulating to culture and abandoning the holy and wholesome ways of the Lord,” Brown wrote on Charisma News.
Matt Moore, an ex-gay Christian blogger, pledged to pray for the Bells.
“Let’s pray that God would so radically transform them that their influence could be used for God-exalting truth and not man-exalting evils,” Moore wrote.
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