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The Pro-Israel Right Is Shifting the Definition of Anti-Semitism Building a coalition united by total indifference to Palestinian human rights requires teaming up with people who lack a certain moral refinement when it comes to the Jews.

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Jonathan Chait on the bogus anti-Semitism charges leveled by Zionists and Trumpists against critics of the state of Israel.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

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Headline: No, ICE is not just like the gestapo. PHOTO 1: Gestapo member in dress uniform. PHOTO 2: Homeland Security agent in full tactical gear, including fatigues, helmet, mask, and machine gun. TEXT IN TABLE FORM: List of things they have in common: private army serving one man, purpose is to facilitate ethnic cleansing, dress in intimidating clothing, sent out to terrorize neighborhoods, randomly kidnap innocent people, often do not carry search warrants, do not allow their victims a fair trial, send their victims to concentration camps. ICE only: hide their faces behind masks. Gestapo only: The public is afraid to fight back.

Warning: Do not try to say this prayer— The Prayer for Mission O God, you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth, and sent your blessed Son to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that people everywhere may seek after you and find you; bring the nations into your fold; pour out your Spirit upon all flesh; and hasten the coming of your kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. - while bang a nationalist.

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

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Peace, all.

These books are all readable by and profitable for ordinary literate Christians as well as pastors and students. I know it takes deliberate effort these days to clear away enough clutter to find time to read books. If you make time to read some of these, I think you'll be glad you did.

God willing, we will keep doing this. If you believe in this work, don't jump online to hunt for a way to read them for free. Jump online, or walk into a bookstore to BUY them.

This stuff is why we sit here in Grand Rapids defying all the odds and all the circumstances to keep publishing biblically, theologically, and historically informed books for God's people.

Rereading Revelation A fresh theological encounter with the book of Revelation, informed by contemporary concerns and reading strategies    Greg Carey, a respected scholar of t...

6. Greg Carey finds that the Book of Revelation has an urgent message for Christians in the United States today (without doing the slightest bit of that weird bonkers stuff that you've heard some preachers do with this book). tinyurl.com/22jaxscw

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel A bold reassessment of John’s Gospel and its relationship to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke Generations ago in biblical studies, it was taken for ...

5. Mark Goodacre, a.k.a. Q-Slayer, shows how the author of Gospel of John "knew, used, presupposed, and transformed" the Synoptics Gospels. tinyurl.com/293opz3l

Hungry for Hope What are young adults’ deepest concerns and hopes for the Christian church? In this remarkable volume, young adults voice their concerns and laments about...

4. Pastors, scholars, and a team of extraordinary young adults team up, under the editorship of Jeremy Paul Myers and Kristina Frugé, to let us know what concerns and hopes their generation has for the church. tinyurl.com/2ads6url

The Well That Washes What It Shows An accessible introduction to the Bible that brings together theological insight with pastoral concerns   In this distinctive introduction to the Bible, Jon...

3. Jonathan Linebaugh's learned, insightful, lyrical, and concise counsel for Christians on reading the Old and New Testaments. tinyurl.com/266263mq

Suicide and the Communion of Saints A compassionate vision for living in relationship with those affected by suicide   Rhonda Mawhood Lee is a priest, spiritual director, and daughter whose mo...

2. Rhonda Mawhood Lee's guide for living in relationship with people affected by suicide. tinyurl.com/23dfc7mv

Serving God Under Siege When Russia invaded Ukraine, an evangelical seminary lost everything—except its commitment to serving God.   In this searing eyewitness account, Valentyn ...

1. Valentyn Syniy's account of how an evangelical seminary in Ukraine sought God's leading to respond to an utterly devastating attack by Vladimir Putin's invading forces. tinyurl.com/295oskc5

Advance copies of six new Eerdmans books just landed on my desk at @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social !

Six advances copies of new books just landed on my desk at Eerdmans Publishing(@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social).

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

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So glad to hear this! Thank you!

Priority Health, Integrity Insurance, and MAGA provocations Does Priority Health support or condone the identification of its brand with MAGA and anti-LGBTQ provocations? What does the selling of insurance have to do with partisan-political trash talking? I…

Any Priority Health clients or stakeholders here?

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Ecclesiasticus 10:1-8,12-18 NRSV A Reading from the Book of Ecclesiasticus. A wise magistrate educates his people, and the rule of an intelligent person is well ordered. As the people’s judge is, so are his officials; as the ruler of the city is, so are all its inhabitants. An undisciplined king ruins his people, but a city becomes fit to live in through the understanding of its rulers. The government of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, and over it he will raise up the right leader for the time. Human success is in the hand of the Lord, and it is he who confers honor upon the lawgiver. Do not get angry with your neighbor for every injury, and do not resort to acts of insolence. Arrogance is hateful to the Lord and to mortals, and injustice is outrageous to both. Sovereignty passes from nation to nation on account of injustice and insolence and wealth. The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker. For the beginning of pride is sin, and the one who clings to it pours out abominations. Therefore the Lord brings upon them unheard-of calamities, and destroys them completely. The Lord overthrows the thrones of rulers, and enthrones the lowly in their place. The Lord plucks up the roots of the nations, and plants the humble in their place. The Lord lays waste the lands of the nations, and destroys them to the foundations of the earth. He removes some of them and destroys them, and erases the memory of them from the earth. Pride was not created for human beings, or violent anger for those born of women. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

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the wisdom of the lectionary

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The fascist Trump regime terrorizes Iranian Christian asylum seekers.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

What a surprise.

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Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Trump and the GOP are choosing to do this. --Robert Reich

Standing by Resisting tyranny starts with resisting the allure of being a bystander

Prof. Kristin Du Mez of Calvin University on not being a bystander.

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