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We are watching the Jim Carey Christmas Carol, which in my opinion is underrated. It’s intense but super faithful to the original story and full of the symbolism Dickens puts in it.

Dickens sees the spirit that is light and reveals and says, “Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold?”

“I am”

First photo - Kristi Noem, 2025. 2nd photo - DC Stevenson (KKK Grand Dragon), 1923. Third photo - Donald Trump - 2025.

The rhetoric and sentiments are increasingly the same.
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It’s terrible. I wonder how this era will be written about one day in the history books.

Candace Owens used to be be annoying and right-wing. Now she might be actually crazy?

I ❤️ Susan Wise Bauer. See the original on Facebook for the full statement.

This is incredibly well-written.

Or the early church fathers!

Oh I thought he was because he went to Southern and is involved in the SBC. Glad he’s not a pastor, but southern baptists have elevated him as if he is one!

I just skimmed through some of those and Wolfe makes me so mad with his “import the third world, become the third world” because he’s a pastor, right? He probably supports missionaries working in the third world. Bah! “Minister” to them, but don’t want them here. So patronizing and icky.

We could have been different. 😮‍💨

I know kids that went to Lane Tech, I know this area. Even if you think a daycare employee that is undocumented should be deported, do you get how horrendous these optics are?? It’s so crazy…

Mary, mother of Jesus and all believers, is not co-redeemer, Vatican says With the approval of Pope Leo XIV, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published a long document on the titles of love and respect Catholics have for...

I just visited Italy and was so uncomfortable with the way Mary was portrayed sometimes. This feels like a big deal. www.usccb.org/news/2025/ma...

Opinion | We're Norman Rockwell's family. Trump's DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion — USA TODAY As Norman Rockwell's family, we know he'd be devastated to see the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized misuse of his work.

“The scarcity of people of color…has led those who are not familiar with his entire oeuvre to draw the conclusion that his vision was of a White America, free of immigrants and people of color. But nothing could have been further from the truth.” 1/

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Asmr from outside my house at sunset last night. I was out wrestling in prayer for a young mom who teeters between life and death at the hospital in our town. It’s a treatable disease but she only just started medication. Will her body hold out long enough for the medicine to start working?

The faithful witness of the church in the Catacombs of Priscilla The earliest Christian art, a value for women, and wealth used to serve

I was discouraged by visiting the Vatican. But the next day the Catacombs of Priscilla …
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a woman is crying and says she is still speaking in tongues . Alt: a woman is crying and says she is still speaking in tongues .

Being a non-sports-person scrolling through my social media feeds right now feels a little like wandering into the middle of a Pentecostal prayer service.

Everyone is talking at once and I cannot understand one word of what they are saying, but they are all very excited about whatever it is. (Yay?)

Everyday Evangelical Resistance For My Chicago Neighbors Historians talk about the danger of presentist history. They rarely talk about what happens when presentist history is unavoidable.

I recently gave my own account of what it’s been like living through Operation Midway Blitz and the terror us Chicagoans have experienced.

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Another ccm song my kids cannot believe is real is “The Pants Song” by Five Iron Frenzy.

The DHS using Tolkien to try to legitimize the actions of ICE. There indeed won’t be a Shire if there are orcs making raids and dragging Gandalf from Bilbo’s birthday party because he’s not a hobbit.

Sorry, that’s a mess, but so is what they posted!

Visiting the Vatican as a Protestant Facing what happens when the Church is tied to politics and power

My impressions of the Vatican
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😂😂

Yeah. Or at least, it is as affordable as every other book is? I suppose if it means that Bibles are out of reach financially for people, that could be accurate. Few people own books because all books are expensive. But in that case it’s partially a poverty map.

I think this is… not true in many places. Bibles are easily available. There are online shopping companies where you can order it to arrive at your door if you want one.

Guys. Let Trump renovate the White House and keep your eyes on real issues.

Florence: the beauty and corruption of Medici patronage Pondering the effects of money and power on religion during the Renaissance

So much that is externally beautiful during the Renaissance. It all looks externally religious, but I grew sobered as I walked, pondering it all and comparing it to our own day.
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The President of the United States.

Unbelievable.

This is very strange!

The Gospel of God and Country Listening to Memorial Words to Make Sense of a Cultural Moment

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I reflect on the use of the gospel at Charlie Kirk’s memorial.

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I continue to feel shocked that the White House posts videos to celebrate men in chains. I showed this video to my daughter and she was shocked. “Why are they doing that to them?! Those guys are just like us here! They are just trying to make a home!”

Actually laughed out loud today to read online discussion of the wokeness of Tim Keller and David Platt. Never thought I’d see the day.

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