Lawson Stone

Small town Georgia boy finds God, Bible, Asbury, Love, Missions, Scholarship, Parenthood, Publication, Happiness.

[Integrity Guy @Integrity_Freak]

No ma’am, I don’t have a boarding pass. I’m simply here to enjoy the world famous dining and nightlife at O’Hare International Airport

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

It's hard to beat Israeli technology!

TEL AVIV, Israel - The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners.

It's an armoured booth you step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on your person.

Israel sees this as a win-win situation for everyone, with none of this crap about racial profiling.

It will also eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials.

You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter, an announcement:

"Attention to all standby passengers,

El Al is pleased to announce a seat available on flight 670 to London.

Shalom!

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

Indeed, scholars can only demonstrate the quality and rigor of their research by submitting their work to other academics who have the knowledge, ability, and will, to offer critique. Writing for the non-technical reader is important, but that reader has little means to know if what they are reading is well grounded.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

The fact that historians have not created one unified prosopography of the entire ancient world with a fixed downloadable machine readable format is actually a crime. Straight to jail.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

This is why you should only believe conspiracy theories which are
1) VERY fun
2) higher on plausibility
3) don’t make you change your life

For example

Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Timothy Tennent @TimTennent]

Check out my response to Scott Kisker’s article in Firebrand about the GMC view of scripture.
https://t.co/vhH77p0qQq

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.”

I love this verse so much. I don't think it was meant to be funny but it is so funny.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want the world to hear what we heard.

[Matt O'Reilly @mporeilly]

Here's my response to Joel Green's recent critique in Firebrand Magazine of the proposed Article of Faith on Holy Scripture and my case for its adoption by the Global Methodist Church.

I think Green's essay is substantively flawed in multiple ways.

I explain here: https://t.co/uoeq9mTuAo

[Firebrand Magazine @FirebrandMag]

New from Firebrand:
"Global Methodists and Holy Scripture: A Response to Scott Kisker"
by Matt O’Reilly
https://t.co/kLdhCZxac2

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

@cwjones89 There was also an outdoor "museum" featuring animal anomalies, like two-headed cows. They were real. It was disturbing. Their sign was a giant statue of a prairie dog, which I think is still there.

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

@lymanstoneky Believe him. Seriously.

[Church Curmudgeon @ChrchCurmudgeon]

Real life is so much better than AI.

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

@roddreher "slap" is such a useful modifier in southern english. "Y'all got coffee? Naw suh, we slap out"

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Nowadays kids’ books have messages like “believe in yourself” and “you can do anything” but when I was a kid the messages were things like “a lady who has a candy house wants to cook and eat you” and “sometimes wolves can disguise themselves as old women”

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men," "Blood Meridian," and "The Road" triggered the thought "Flannery O'Connor without God or Grace."

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

😬😬😬😬

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

@_j0sh_a_ Might be a special kind of Hebrew script invented by the great rabbi Rashi, often called "Rashi Script"-don't know for sure, just guessing.

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

@cwjones89 @matthenryyoung Back in the day this was considered totally normal in research. Who wouldn't? Plus, when you track citations down to their ultimate origin, you often learn a lot. Many commonly repeated claims actually don't track back to any kind of reliable information.

[Lawson Stone @lgstone]

@FirebrandMag Would do well to find out the actual origin of the "without error in all that it affirms" language. The slighting, off-the cuff, superficial critique of this formulation in the article is an embarrassment.