Trying to live faithfully, failing miserably, forgiven mercifully. Eclectic mix of words, wonder and wit. Always wit!

Erie, PA
Joined July 2009
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Please, please read this thread.
Replying to @jake_meador
So my error was claiming that American Reformer partnered with a Nazi. The more correct claim is that another org with broadly similar leadership and listed at the same address called New Founding is partnering with a Nazi, as Fischer himself announced last week.
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You can be against Nick Fuentes AND Candace Owens AND Zohran Mamdani AND Jay Jones all at the same time. This is not a choice of Left vs. Right but of Good vs. Evil. Never support evil, no matter how it claims to align politically.
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You all are closer to being on SNAP benefits than being a billionaire.
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In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”
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George Santos: —Plead guilty to wire fraud —Plead guilty to identity theft —Admitted to stealing from donors and using their money to fund his life of luxury. —Stole funds from a homeless veteran's dying dog —Lied about losing his mother during the 9/11 attacks. That is the person whose prison sentence donald trump commuted today.
Excellent essay. @jk_rowling I think you would appreciate this. open.substack.com/pub/kaeley…
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This tweet aged like Stephen Miller.....
All those people upset about @CTmagazine taking donations from a foundation that has also donated to Planned Parenthood, are you equally appalled with your GOP led government?
You want to know how this happened? So, there was this election last November in which the Republicans ran a pro-choice candidate and, once elected, he nominated a rabidly pro-choice Secretary of HHS, and then the Senate . . .
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If you need to break the law and tradition to put Trump on a coin to have some enthusiasm for the 250th anniversary of the founding, I question your patriotism. Trump’s ego and his lickspittles’ desire to feed it, should have nothing to do with commemorating the founding.
COINED LEGACY: The Treasury Department is weighing a proposal to issue new $1 coins featuring President Trump as part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.
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I took my Sunday morning walk through downtown Minneapolis and toward the U of M campus where I went to school 50 years ago. I listened to the @GFCFlorida message & songs of my favorite Christian artists. I also prayed for our country. I prayed a lot because we don’t seem to be on the right track. God said in 2nd Chronicles “If MY people will humble themselves and pray I will hear from heaven and heal their land.” Our land needs healing. God is going to have to do it. But our part is to do what He says and to not get caught up in worldly solutions. Romans Chapter 12 tells Christians what we need to do in times like this. We need to be different. We need to keep our eyes on Jesus and do things His way-not the world’s way. And we can’t get caught up in the world’s evil ways. We have to do good to EVERYONE- as long as God gives us the life and breath to do good.
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“For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” - 2 Corinthians 12:10
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This map, by placing the Mediterranean area inside the US, gives us a helpful perspective on the extent of Paul’s travels, as well as the size of the Roman Empire. On his second missionary journey, for instance, Paul traveled the equivalent of going from South Carolina, up through Ohio and Indiana, across to Iowa and down into Missouri, then back to the Carolinas. And, with a twist no one saw coming, all roads now lead to Nebraska! As we read about Paul's travels in Bible in One Year, keep this map -- and the perspective it gives -- in mind.
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Counting partial dissents as dissents, here's some topline SCOTUS stats: 6-3 ideological: 9% 6-3 w Court's 3 most conservative justices in dissent: 5% Divided cases with all 3 liberal justices in dissent: 15% Divided cases w only conservatives justices in dissent: 28%
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Trump and Musk staging a very public fight to distract us from Aaron Rodgers signing with the Steelers is diabolical.
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While I am not a fan of Secretary Noem, I am upset when people referred to her as ICE Barbie. These comments focus on and criticize her appearance and her gender, not her performance.
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The ratio is complete. Outstanding work everyone
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Amidst all the chatter re: AI, one thing is certain: reading deeply and writing well will be superpowers in the next age. Not as a means of content creation, but because they will be essential to character formation.
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In a clear signal that President Trump's trade war is filtering through to the American economy, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, said it will have to start raising prices later this month due to the high cost of tariffs reut.rs/3FbvO2v
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Which means everything he has “accomplished” only exists while he is president. #congressdoyourjob
Trump has signed just 5 bills into law, fewer than any president in first 100 days since at least the 1950s — MSNBC