I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
WOW: Massive crowds in New York City right now for the 50501 National Day of Action against the Trump regime.
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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
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A few years ago I was in Israel with my family. We were being led on a private tour by a local pastor along the path that Jesus would have walked after his betrayal and arrest. It was a beautiful and sacred moment. I was listening intently to the pastor as he explained that it was a near certainty that Jesus would have walked the ancient stairs upon which we stood, when I was distracted by my son. He was behind me running back and forth on every step and making more no…
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On today's Method & Madness, the second part of our conversation about Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. We discuss McCarthy's craftsmanship and how writers can apply CM's techniques in their own work. You can listen for free here:
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“If you want to write,” people will often tell you — “read old books.”
What they do NOT tell you is that if you ever employ the writing style of those old books, or if you would use so much as a single archaic phrase or “five-dollar word” contained in those books — you will be harangued mercilessly for “purple prose” and the like.