Links for the Weekend (2026-10-02)

Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.

Can We Trust the New Testament Text We Have Today?

John Samson writes about the manuscript evidence for the Bible and how that affects its trustworthiness.

The telephone game is fun exactly because it was designed to distort the message. It is one slim chain, one whisper at a time, and you cannot check the whisper you heard against anything else, not even the whisper before the one you heard. By the end of the line, you have no way to test anything that occurred along the way. Distortion is basically guaranteed.

The New Testament is the exact opposite to this.

The Sports Gambling Epidemic is Only Getting Worse

Cole Claybourn explains the seriousness of the sports gambling epidemic.

It’s never been easier to bet on sports, and people have never been more interested in doing so, data shows. According to 2026 Bank of America consumer account data, the number of online betting users increased significantly in the summer of 2026 thanks in part to the World Cup, with first-time users in June and July more than triple January levels. Millennials and Gen Z accounted for 88% of online betting activity in July.

Meditation XXIV

Our poem of the week: Meditation XXIV, by Mark Rico. This poem is about God waiting to sing creation into being.

On the WPCA Blog This Week

This week on the blog we published an article I wrote called No Longer On Repeat. If you haven’t already seen it, check it out!

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