I'm guessing this is due to the steam coming out the vent rather than a fine layer of ice crystals across the entire sky. The sundog is only visible with that particular geometry of the sun and the vent, right?
Under Christianity, I think children were instructed to hold their hands together in order to discourage fidgeting. I'm not aware of any Biblical reason to clasp hands. In fact, I think in the Old Testament hands were often raised in prayer.
If a church can't be supported through its active membership, it should close. Better no church at all than one sold out to the world, making money from investments and forgetting their true purpose.
Because it's a quiet news time, with not much happening in the world due to the Christmas-New Year holiday season. The "year in review" articles fill the emptiness.
"Love" in the scriptures is typically a verb, e.g., "God so loved the world..." It describes an action that God does, not a feeling. God's love is his acting in a loving way towards undeserving people.
Christian theologians believe in the impassibility of God, which means that God does not have emotions as humans do. Then biblical texts where emotions are attributed to God are explained as anthropomorphism - God using human language to communicate his nature and actions.
My son insisted on a gift for Dirty Santa that was in a box encased in 8 more boxes, each wrapped beautifully. Apparently it was the first gift chosen, so everyone had to sit and watch each box be unwrapped.
No data is better than bad data.