Losing A Lifetime of Work
I can’t begin to express how many hundreds or even thousands of hours of irreplaceable work was in those files, from decades of graphic design, collection, and other sources which could not be replaced.
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Hot Takes Burn
That said, I would be a fool if I didn’t take some responsibility for what happened. “Hot takes” are deliberately designed to incite responses, and if one isn’t surgically precise with those jabs, then they can be applied in ways the author never intended. I’m not a novice. Communication is my area of study. Yet I crafted a provocative statement which wasn’t carefully aimed. I take responsibility for that.
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Delimiting: Theocracy & Sacralism
To “rule by God” is the implication of theocracy — sacralism extends that rule to the state by mutual usurpation: the state claiming the church’s keys, the church claiming the state’s sword. Together, these two concepts have shaped the last two millennia of Christian civic and political discourse — and are among the most misunderstood today.
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Facebook Support: 10/10 Highly Recommend
393 days ago, my Facebook account (FOLLOW ME) was compromised along with many others as part of a sophisticated hack originating in the Chrome Browser extension store.
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A Small Name Change, Nothing Else
The result is that I’m trying to bring all of my writings under one roof. I’ve been writing for about 30 years, and sometimes I forget just how long I’ve been doing it. I’ll be pulling in my articles from Nullify Abortion, Humble Pray, and anywhere else and incorporating them into JesusIsRisen.org.
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Marriage, Murder, & Mahler
The problem is not only offensive rhetoric. Mahler is advocating for the state to execute innocent people in God’s name. By invoking “Christian Nationalism”, Mahler is implicitly invoking God’s law. In doing so, Mahler attributes to God a law He hasn’t given, and in doing so profanes God’s name. God’s law exists to restrain evil, not to promote it; protect good, not abuse it (Rom 13:1-7).
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Honoring God with The Body
If you remove God from abstinence education and turn obedience into one of fear and shame, you rob teenagers and adults of the joy of the knowledge their obedience and resistance to temptation is not merely the denial of the flesh, but an act of glorifying and worshiping God.
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The City Gates Begin At Home
We would be wise to realize we’re called to be local influencers, not global influencers. Yet many of us mask delusions of grandeur and fame in verbiage like “the city gates” when the borders we’ve outlined for that city stretch far beyond our actual community. This is a folly to which both men and women fall victim when they grow unsatisfied with the obligations God has entrusted to them.
