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Monthly Archives: January 2017
What’s better than 100 percent success?
Immigration officials have been 100 percent successful in stopping terrorists from entering the U.S. from the countries covered by the president’s ban. The vetting process is 100 percent successful. The current vetting process is 100% successful. There have been zero … Continue reading
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Tagged a Christian response to the Muslim ban, Bashar al-Assad, good Samaritan, Muslim ban, Trump
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His name was Alan Kurdi
He drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on Sept. 2, 2015. He was three years-old. Photos of his body on the beach continue to illustrate the refugee crisis in Syria. As the parent of a three year-old, it’s too painful to … Continue reading
“What you do for the least of these, you do for me.”
On the day the world recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the White House issued a statement that ignored six million murdered Jews, the president signed an executive action that will ensure the deaths of innocent people. The order triggered … Continue reading
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Tagged Alt-right bigots, Donald Trump, Holocaust, Muslim ban, Stephen Bannon, syrian refugees
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A racist message in plain sight
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Trump White House released a statement that made invisible six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. How do you issue a statement about the Holocaust and not mention Jewish people? Racist antisemitism, hidden in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Donald Trump, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Steve Bannon
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A pep talk
A pep talk from Kid President. Worth watching, remembering, and watching again.
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We are ALL loved
I attended a charming Christmas pageant a few weeks before Christmas. The small church in a small town is probably close to 100 years old. Can you imagine all the pancake supper fundraisers that paid for this? They were lovely … Continue reading
Inauguration Day 2017
Some Conservative Christians hated President Obama so much, that after eight years they’ve completely divorced themselves of every message in the Bible. The idea of following the actual words of Jesus has long been on the fringe of the faith. … Continue reading
A Christian nation? No, thanks.
Scripture tells us that when the Israelites lost faith in the Lord, they demanded a king (1 Samuel 8) and as a result a lot of bad stuff happened to them (most of the rest of the Jewish scripture). Despite … Continue reading
Character as clear as black and white
The president-elect of the United States kicked-off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend by attacking on Twitter a civil rights legend who marched with King. John Lewis, a 14-term member of Congress, announced last week that he intended to … Continue reading
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Tagged baby-hands, civil rights, Donald Trump, John Lewis, Martin Luther King JR., Selma
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Christians and abortion
This is really good. I tried to explain previously that Protestants didn’t always oppose abortion and didn’t do nearly as good a job as he does in explaining it. The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal
A question of character
On the anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton it’s ironic that there were new revelations of president-elect Donald Trump’s moral failings. The Broadway play thrust Hamilton back into the cultural spotlight, but in 1797 the former Secretary of the … Continue reading
