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Listen to the Spirit
There is something about this time we are in that compels me to write on this day, June 14, 2025.
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We learned to tell cheap lies
I am not good with poetry. It is difficult to read. If I hear it, I begin to understand.
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Those times when a phrase or a sentence just stops you
I can make a bad habit of cruising through an article or opinion piece and letting things just float by. It can be an article I agree with or an opinion piece that makes me mad, but I take in the whole of the piece and sometimes forget to pay attention to details. A piece I read by Nicholas Kristof…
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The call for the moral center to hold
David French writes in the hours following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania: Now is the time for America’s moral center to rise up and declare — with one voice, neither red nor blue — “Enough.” We either recover our sense of decency and basic respect for the humanity of our opponents, or we…
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Nostaligic history, reading the Bible well, and other such things
Two recent podcasts are worth your time in our current cultural season. This one with Russell Moore and Karen Swallow Prior discusses the way we read Scripture, how to read well, and is a good conversation between two people who long to hold on to Jesus and are getting re-acclimated to a world that has shifted greatly in the last…
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The discipled political church
“…when it comes to American politics, Trump has discipled the church far more than the church has discipled Trump.” — David French. More HERE. Many millions of Republicans aren’t just Republicans on Election Day, they’re Republicans every day. And Donald Trump placed every-day Republicans in a constant dilemma. Did you point it out when he did evil things? Or did…
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Enabling lies and willful deception
David French begins one of his latest posts this way: I’m going to be honest. I can’t shake the sadness. I can’t shake the anger. We probably all feel that way, and probably for different reasons.
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Tough minds and tender hearts
I am working my way through Martin Luther King’s The Strength to Love and my last post had a quote on be tough minded. It can’t stop there. Dr. King wrote that the gospel also demands we have a tender heart.
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The follow up on Christianity Today’s editorial
Last week Christianity Today posted an editorial calling for the removal of the president. Well, a lot has happened since then. It got Trump’s ire in some tweets and then some responses from the “right” and the “left.”
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The prophetic voice raised
Christianity Today had their website crash yesterday. They disrupted news cycles. All major outlets (including FoxNews) have reported it. Mark Galli, retiring editor-in-chief for CT, wrote the bold editorial that it is time for Trump to be removed from office.
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