Stephen

Yeah, that's one broad aspect, although there were plenty of right-wing Catholics who made a huge impact in Brazil.

Yes, and it's part of a larger conflict across the Americas. If you really want to know what's going on, look into religious conflicts in Guatemala (Virginia Garrard has done great work on that) and Brazil (Benjamin Cowan has written about that). The transnational links are crucial.

Theology for the Drastic Changes Coming in Catholic Higher Education Jason King on the future.

This piece from @jking66.bsky.social on Church Life Journal is worth a read. My first thought on his distinctions among "core," "guild," and "public" theologies are that they basically align with Tracy's publics of church, academy, and society.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...

The overarching theme is "those people, your inferiors, are ungrateful and undeserving, but you are superior by birth"

JD Vance ranting about gratitude at Claremont

JD Vance "you shoulda said pwease" meme

Seems to be a common thread in this guy's attempts to stoke resentment

Entire sanctification

That's the whole function of the thing! Sound plausible and, as a result, often be accurate.

"sometimes"

Not gonna lie, the only thing I've found the things useful for is drafting LinkedIn-speak about "experienced leader with a demonstrated history of"... kind of amazed that real people were ever able to write that stuff.

Genuine question for anyone who knows the answer: If the issue is that food and other necessities are not entering Gaza due to a blockade and Israel's failure to fulfill its obligations, how does sending money to individual Palestinians in Gaza help? Won't that just reshuffle the limited supplies?

Reminds me of the "anyone could be convinced by a cult" discourses. Yes, they prey on vulnerable people, and it's awful, but I have a hard time believing more than 50% of the population would fall for that particular kind of thing--but definitely a lot of people would.

A map of Texas with the outline of France superimposed on top. The French map also shows France’s TGV network and largest cities.

I saw some “America is too big for HSR” discourse on Threads so I thought I’d resurface this image.

The four largest cities in Texas have two million more people than the four largest cities in France, and they’re closer together.

There are lots of places in the US where HSR would work great.

I'll believe it when GPT-5 learns how to get senior faculty to respond to emails.

Vaxxed???

And himself, given that he enslaved people

Yeah, there's a pro-duplex YIMBY campaign as well. Both sides are definitely well-represented, but I would hold such a progressive city where everyone is supposed to be welcome to a high standard on this.

My “smart” tv with the Roku main menu on showing an ad for a “the great courses - on the Roku channel: how Jesus became god” programme

THEYRE DOING ARIANISM ON THE ROKU

How is anyone seriously reenacting the "I'll tell you what, let's call Ghislaine Maxwell" part of this joke? This should be so humiliating for everyone involved. youtu.be/GKfHcas_cZg?...

Curious about the latest updates, I almost just googled "big balls," then thought better of it.

I suspect that it's more that it surfaces evidence of how bad reading comprehension already was by giving everyone a voice. A lot of bad readers would have quietly misunderstood newspaper articles in their houses in the 1990s, and no one would have known.

YIMBY orgs needs to start producing signs like “Do you support immigrants? Build more housing so they can live here”

Lawn signs saying "attention, your property is being rezone, stop rushed up zoning agenda," "black lives matter," and "in this house..."

Just walked by this

NIMBYism is the local version of "build the wall," and it is a crucial source of tangible support for national-level xenophobia.

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

And so many non-prominent people (most of them) do the same thing. Cases where perpetrators are truly held accountable are so rare, and usually only happen after outside institutions like journalists or prosecutors give it their sustained attention (and often still not even then).

The Christian belief that everyone can change runs into empirical evidence that certain kinds of abusers simply do not change. In that case, I think it's crucial to err on the side of pessimism, however much we wish things were otherwise and all things could be reconciled here and now.

Any approach that does not completely side with survivors of abuse and against perpetrators of crimes like assault and possessing/trading child sex abuse materials inevitably gets manipulated by abusers, who are incredibly skilled at winning people over.

A lot of people try to find balance on this sort of thing in the name of being "restorative" or something similar, but the fact is that there are powerful impulses in every group to side with perpetrators and similar impulses in Christianity to show "mercy" to them rather than to those they abused.

Rather than leaping to highlight scriptural emphases on reconciliation and restoration, in cases of abuse we need to instead begin with divine judgment against those who harm children (millstones around the necks of abusers) and listen to survivors of abuse at all times.