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Btw, Christianity is true.
Whatever it is that allows one to watch that speech and analyze it in any serious way is something I just don’t have.
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I love singing on Sundays with the Aquinas Institute at the Princeton University Chapel led by Peter Carter. My husband It’s also in the choir. And I’m taking private voice lessons with one of the choir leaders!
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C.S. Lewis on why we must read old books — and why history matters…
From The Weight of Glory (1941)
This is just the sort of pretentiousness I absolutely abhor from the literary world. You can’t choose ONE piece that you deem worthy? Not ONE piece out of the thousands that you received—likely from far better writers than these “editors” themselves?
Traditional lit mags need to die. Stop giving these absolute incompetents your money and…
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Christians who love Tradition, the Ancient Church, and the Church Fathers + Mothers
Lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien + C.S. Lewis
Music enthusiasts (Josh Garrels, Phil Wickham, Alanis Morissette, a wide range)
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This is as far back as we can get good data on white evangelicals.
In 1960:
61% were Democrats
30% were Republicans
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God knows you completely—your struggles, your fears, your hopes—and He walks with you through it all. His mercy is never exhausted, His grace never runs dry. Even in the silence, He is there, drawing you closer. You are known. You are loved. You are never alone.
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Truly staggering to read a piece about the trans issue today which DOES NOT EVEN MENTION the two core areas of disagreement - unfairness in sports, protection of women in intimate spaces and prisons, and medical experiments on children with gender dysphoria. Just pure propaganda and lies. Using the history of marriage equality to defend …
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C.S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer.
It is rather instructive…
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Tom Wolfe thought brain scans marked the death of the soul. Not so much, as @SpencerKlavan (no relation) explains in "The Fractals Declare the Glory of God," at the New Jerusalem.
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C.S. Lewis said somewhere that Protestants look at Catholics and see an overgrown jungle—”What is all this stuff?” Catholics look at Protestants and see a barren desert—”Where is everything?”
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substack should introduce a feature where you can start your essay with one of those medieval drop caps.
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Finished Catch-22. The last time I read it I was a senior in high school. For awhile it was my favorite novel.
Second time around as a middle-aged man, enjoyed it. The Marx Brothers-esque patter was funny for sure, but I got tired of it after awhile.
Having 20 years of real world experience with dealing with bureaucracy made the novel all the more painfully hilarious.
I wrote a paper when I was a senior on Milo Minderbinder. Still think he’s my favorite character in the book. Just a fascinating…
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The share of people born between 1955 and 1959 who have no religious affiliation:
28%
For people born between 1975-1979:
41% - a 13 point increase in 20 years of birth cohorts.
For those born between 1995-2000:
46% - a 5 point increase in 20 years.
Rubin's moral blindness on display once again -- in neon. She won't even deal with the issue of the Biden's State Department and Gaza. And that will become increasingly embarrassing because more is going to come out about how the US enabled Israel's scorched earth policy. Pro Publica recently posted a story on "How the State Department Let Israel Get Away with Horrors in Gaza." propublica.org/article/… . Blinken's legacy is stained -- how does the Contrarian remain safely contrary? Sink your head in the sand, just the kind of cowardice authoritarians and right-wing thugs in Israel and elsewhere like.
No one would have handled the situation differently, not saying it's right, but let's be real here. Both parties are beholden to Israel and the defense industry. You expecting a different outcome is naive. At least with Blinken and Biden we got humanitarian aid flowing and a efforts were underway constantly to push for a ceasefire.
Secondly, you ignore all the good accomplishments that have happened under the Biden administration. I can guarantee you none of that would have happened under a seco…
You raise salient points. If more pressure had been applied might things have been different. Who knows? I and others would have respected the effort -- instead, we looked like enabling puppets for the Israeli right wing. As for humanitarian aid -- let's see what those efforts amounted to. The death toll has yet to be calculated. I guess we can be proud that we averted famine? I was not talking about all the accomplishments of the State Dept -- but the exclusion in the column of what happened i…
damn typo -- "is going to become very old very fast .."
It is amazing to me how people can approve of Biden or Blinken in relationship to the Gaza genocide. Trump would have and will do worse but genocide is genocide regardless of the party that engages in this behavior.
At the moment, the approach seems to be to ignore the issue on the mainstream left -- rev up against Trump and the catastrophe to come. But more and more about the horrors in Gaza is going to come out. (Despite the record number of journalists killed covering the war.) What interests me is whether the democracy-loving contrarians will join with the authoritarians in undercutting international laws regarding human rights. Russia or Israel committed war crimes? Perhaps genocide? Who decides? No o…
Please name the morally perfect statesman you most admire.
This is so full of false hoods that it is unreadable. You attitude is why we now are about to have a hamster dictator.
I highly doubt you read my comment. Your attitude is exactly why we have a hamster dictator.
Everyone who refused to vote for Kamala over Gaza (which she has no control over as VP btw) is 100% at fault for this disaster about to happen.
You all told women they are less of a person than men. You all told minorities and immigrants they are less of a person than others. You all told the world that Americans are selfish and ignorant. You all told the poor and middle class that you don't care if our c…
Let's wait to shoot ourselves in the foot until we see how Trump fixes this.
Hear hear...thanks for speaking out.
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I hope a sternly worded letter is in the works.🤮
