Greg Carey

Military Commanders & Armageddon: A Clarification I am grateful for Jonathan Larsen’s recent report that personnel in over 40 military units have complained that commanders have framed the campaign against Iran as a noble step toward Armageddon and J...

My response to the Jonathan Larsen’s report that military officers preached dispensation premillennialism to the troops prior to our attacks. Yes, it’s disturbing. But no, Pete Hegseth would not have been behind it (as Larson notes).

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People get it, y’all. The charade is over. I know it’s just a poll, but these numbers don’t show up in a normal time. Amazing that many would still vote for him, but there’s no love. It’s plain to see.

So. What’s he gonna do? That’s a scary question, isn’t it?

Live Updates: U.S. Attacks Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government

Dude loves to fire missiles but has no follow through, ya know? May peace prevail.

Confirmed by Washington Post. Two thoughts.

1 We should consider this a grave threat and act accordingly.

2 It’s also a sign of profound weakness and fear.

Right-wing figures and Trump allies are calling for Trump to declare a “national emergency” to prevent supposed election fraud The New York Times recently reported that a Department of Homeland Security official focused on “election integrity,” appointed by President Donald Trump, has proposed that Trump declare a “national e...

Confirmed by Washington Post. Two thoughts.

1 We should consider this a grave threat and act accordingly.

2 It’s also a sign of profound weakness and fear.

'Light in a dark place': Inside a York County LGBTQ+ affirming church Grandview York is one of the few open and affirming churches that welcome LGBTQ+ Christians in York County.

School of Theology student Liz Kinsey North and Lancaster alum Jesse North are doing the sacred work!

Appendix III The Darmstadt Statement Das Kapitel Appendix III The Darmstadt Statement erschien in The Reluctant Revolutionary auf Seite 261.

1. The notion that God has a special mission for a particular state—and that people know what that mission is.

2. Trusting a corrupt leader to bring social salvation.

3. Fostering a cult of masculinity and militarism.

Your turn….

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Hanna Reichel calls attention to the Confessing Church’s Darmstadt Declaration (1947). How does this statement bear upon Christian nationalism?

And why not list (together) ways in which that movement echoes the Nazi imagination?

I’ll start with three, just to get things rolling. 1/2

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

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Most of us have not given up, but so many have.

“A convincing argument I’ve seen for the prevalence of nihilism, especially politically, is that younger generations have mostly known only political and economic dysfunction.”

Brilliant piece by Charlie Warzel. 2/2

Perhaps our biggest threat. It ain’t that guy. Rather, millions of people have given up on truth, value, kindness—the very things we need in order to build a sustainable culture. If we can’t value the neighbors we don’t know personally, or even the ones we do, we face a future of dysfunction. 1/2

Brilliant. Scary.

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Again, why do we suppose they keep building detention centers?

Because it wasn’t about efficiency?

Every commercial that celebrates community and joy is a small blow for democracy. That’s how we win: one chip at a time.

208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

The genius of the Musk/Thiel operation is making themselves indispensable while collecting data on everyone.

Palantir and xAI take your data, while DOGE has dismantled oversight.

Epstein compromised people one by one.

These guys are compromising the entire population at once

Also—a good time to check in on some friends

Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes

This is actually the time to call for removal from office. Make the calls!

This sin of empathy BS is just bigotry in search of a theology.

How can we know that Christian nationalism revolves around narrow right wing politics rather than Christianity? Because its adherents differ massively on doctrine, worship, and piety, but they can miraculously line up on new political talking points in a split second.

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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11) sues his hometown paper (my employer, LNP | LancasterOnline) for defamation, arguing an editorial that described his + other GOPers' arguments last fall that Dems wanted to fund health care for illegal immigrants were a "lie."
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'Melania' Is a Horror Movie The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

I think this review says a lot about what we’re up against. There is no vitality, no life, in authoritarianism.

Reminds me, frankly, of Revelation’s New Jerusalem, where everything is shiny and bright and hard and cold. You can even see through the gold. (Published an essay about that in 2009.)

Yikes. A little casual anti-Judaism on Holocaust Remembrace Day.

What's Christian Nationalism Got to Do with It? Violence in Minnesota and in Christian Institutions

Trying out my Substack. How do we recognize Christian nationalism in the assault on Minneapolis and in abuse allegations at a local Christian academy?

A follower shared the legal document earlier this week so I'm really glad that @lancasteronline.bsky.social covered this. They include everything EXCEPT a detail about perpetrator and, of course, the larger context of Dayspring.

Let's have a look!

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