Alexander

Southern Baptist, of the Calvinist sort. Army Veteran. PNW Puritan.
Seminarian @SBTS. BS History @LibertyU.

Par la Bible et la carabine

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Sing Psalms.

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@infantrydort I was a POG paratrooper, and we sang blood upon the risers as a cadence at BLC (SGT school for the older vets)

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I find it interesting that the people who complain about the Battle Hymn of the Republic's being about killing other Americans are normally the same sort of people who enjoy a song like "Good Ole Rebel".

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@OldNewYork1664 @leahmarilla My sojourn in NY was brief, I grew up between Central FL and WA.

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@OldNewYork1664 @leahmarilla This seems generally true, but I’d be hard pressed to call myself authentically North Carolinian just because my dad was stationed at Lejeune when I was born.

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A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

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@OldNewYork1664 Pour l’époque de mes études, Français est utilisé partout (18-19th c.), mais je doit apprendre latin et allemand pour mon doctorat…

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@OldNewYork1664 Pour être un vrai historien, c’est franchement nécessaire de lire [au moins] le français

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@TheNotoriousRDS @ClubCalvinist Ironically, oulala doesn’t have the Romantic or suggestive implications in French

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@OldNewYork1664 I think that the disparity is explained by

1. the overwhelming majority of Scots Irish, especially outside of more rigorously Presbyterian circles and Appalachia, intermixed

2. Irish Catholics maintain a relatively strong identity when intermarrying.

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Lupine bites prove fatal
Blood soaks wolfsbane petal
The flower choked by sanguine metal
The lion conquers wolf in battle

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Beastly wights that harrow 
Those ‘pon the Heart of mallow
In that same fair meadow
Dwelling in loamy fallow

A fawn of a single year
Takes his first steps there
His shadow a full deer
Yet our wargs prowl near

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It tracks, my family does come from Jamaica. The Indian (and a separate Berber) names are unrelated.

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@benryanwriter 1 if I’m honest, 2 if I’m sentimental to see the city I was born in.

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D’être Anglo (ainsi Américain) et une synthèse de l’hébreu, l’évangile, et l’Arthurien

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@JoshuaBarzon ESV

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@atlanticesque This is like 40% of Louisville

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@pnwguerrilla Now I’m even more homesick for the PNW…

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@uncledoomer Down the West Coast. I get to see family, the Cascades, the Redwoods, and go down the Coastal Highway.

[Luke Stamps @lukestamps]

Conciliar theology and Christology
Protestant soteriology
Evangelical spirituality
Baptist ecclesiology

That's a solid framework for making sense of your faith and life.