An MRI scan of a 20-week-old unborn baby.
Not a parasite.
A living human child who can move, has a heartbeat, fingers and toes.
No child should be aborted.
Harvard circa 1700s:
"No student shall be admitted unless they can translate Greek and Latin authors such as Tully, Virgil, The New-Testament, & Xenophon."
Harvard circa 2026:
"We can't assign whole novels anymore."
The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).
Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.
Yesterday, 357 members of Congress voted to block the release of sexual misconduct reports and the taxpayer slush fund used to pay off victims. In Oversight committee, @RepNancyMace made the motion to subpoena the records and after we fought for it, it passed. This list will now be made public for the American people to see for themselves.
We did this because you deserve to know the truth.
MIT scientists have observed the dynamic events that unfold at the start of life. When a sperm fertilizes an egg, it sets off sweeping waves of activity that travel across the egg’s surface.
So I preached yesterday morning. In light of the Sermon Police who took over X this morning, I downloaded the audio and transcribed it. Nope, I did not mention Charlie Kirk or the events of this week specifically. I thought I had at one point made a general remark about recent events or something but I cannot find that in the transcript. Fact is, had the event fit in with the text, I would not have hesitated to mention it. But, it didn't (or, I would have had to have made a very artificial connection), so I didn't.
Now, we literally have men that I have sat and talked with and even attempted to be an encouragement to in the past saying that if your pastor did not speak about Charlie Kirk yesterday in the Lord's day services, you should immediately leave your church. Yes, I've seen it repeated over and over again this morning. You know, when you tell someone to leave a church, that is a VERY serious thing. You had better be ready to answer for such exhortation in the day of judgment, let me tell you, since that is, ultimately, the role of the Holy Spirit. And I really wonder how many people a month, or six months from now, will be saying the same thing? You know, once the emotional fervor has passed?
I honestly do not think that right now a serious conversation about "martyrdom" or where the line is to be drawn between political assassination and Christian persecution can and should be drawn can be had. The irony is, that is what Charlie Kirk was all about: the conversation, the facts, the debate.
But this I do know: the "get out of your church if they don't share our very emotionally determined priorities right now, this day" folks really need to take a few deep breaths and realize that many of them, in their more honest moments, will be truly embarrassed by their comments in a relatively short period of time. Or, they should be, anyway.