Jonathan Tobias

I have no President. I have a lawless, petty and infantile dictator that I’ll pray for, like St Paul prayed for Nero.

Proof that mixing emesis, enuresis, encopresis, and snot turns orange

The Old Rugged Cross the only way for all the ungodly, including you and me

"When I was a child, I thought as a child"

The Book of Pity God's only passion

For pity's sake.

What Abraham Was Asked the jeopardy answer

God will provide a lamb

Recognize This redemption at the point of recognition

In this moment when empathy is discarded and humanity is disregarded, it is more important than ever to recognize this.

The Wages of Losing Empathy empathy civilizes the beast

Empathy is not a sin.

The Offerings of Cain and Abel sacrifice as gift instead of appeasement

Jesus is the first peacemaker

Give Them Space two ways in the inferno

The way of the winter soldier

The Judgment We Should Long For where the line passes through

the healing of the world

A Song for Zero Summer kneel where prayer has been valid

Love bade me welcome ...

Pictures at an Exhibition after the shadows, stepping in the light

on marching at today's protest

The Lenten Spring what the Sower looks for

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What Midas touches turns to gold, but what the Donald infects turds to mold, like tonight at the Super Bowl.

What an ugly, filthy man my fellow Americans have elected. Therein is my problem. My fellow citizens have enthusiastically voted against themselves, but have also voted against my granddaughter. If you voted for him, you owe her an apology. A tear stained face on the floor apology.

The Past is Never Past and sleeping is collaboration

Remembrance is the antidote to collaboration
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Now is not the time to be certain, because announcing certainties simply stokes up scapeboating. It is far, far better to just pray, love, and care for those who grieve.

The plain fact is simply that we don't know until the conclusion of an adult, responsible and rational investigation is made, which will probably reveal a complex of deficiencies, mistakes, and just chaos.

Perhaps it is pilot error, but we don't know. Perhaps it is a deficiency in the Army's flight planning, but we don't know. Perhaps it was a lack of proper air traffic control, but we don't know.

Can we not just grieve for now and pray? There was no intended malice here (as opposed to a mass shooting). This was a chaotic accident with many causalities.

What we know about American Airlines plane crash in Washington DC Sixty-seven people are believed to have died in Wednesday's disaster, which is being investigated.

Can we not, in these immediate moments after so heartbreaking a tragedy, simply console and pray for these 67 victims, and the many hundreds of people who will be hurt by these deaths?

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This man needs de-frocked

And Beth Moore is a wonderful, brave Christian, who doesn't deserve this treatment. What she and others, like Nancy French, have gone through is nothing short of persecution "for My Name's sake."

Be that as it may, to dismiss empathy and suggest that it may be "toxic" is contrary to the New Testament ethic, and violates everything that Jesus call us to do and everything He transforms us to become.

Yes, empathy can take you into politically unpopular actions -- like protecting, loving, serving, and advocating for the wrong sort of people.

If there's anything that should manifest the presence of Christ in a person's life, it is precisely empathy and the loving, servanthood actions that follow upon empathy.

Famous "worship-leader" Sean Feucht recently deployed this term against Beth Moore, of all people. This toxic oxymoron (the word, that is) is symptomatic of a graver, widespread disorder affecting the American Christian community.

There is no such thing as “toxic empathy.” There is only love. Others use this term to evade love’s calling. And it shows what they really are

Because I’ve already been doing just that. For years. Give me a break. Spare me your moralistic lectures.

Snowfall All manner of things shall be well

The snow falls, but Spring will rise again.