Ciara Rose

He loved us 1st | 1st John 4:18-19

[Ciara Rose @CiaraRose05]

praying this song will bring you all some sense of hope and encouragement this 4th of July 🙏🇺🇸❤️ #america #4thofJuly #freedom Click to listen: https://t.co/nZWwdyKjea

[Joe Kinsey @JoeKinseyexp]

102-year-old WWII vet Sverre Vinje, who saw action in Iwo Jima & Okinawa, sang God Bless America last night in Milwaukee.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

C.S. LEWIS: "My prayer is that when I die, all of Hell rejoices that I'm out of the fight."

[Alisa Childers @alisa_childers]

This is what will keep the church from going soft.

This is what will solve the spiritual crisis facing our young men and women.

The unflinching proclamation of the gospel is what real strength looks like.

This is what will save America’s sons.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

We've lost our damn minds.
The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their Wifi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok...

[Sasha Stone @realsashastone]

This is more like it.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

This little girl is not in the video. She wasn't even born. But she is moved to tears watching her mother and father get married. Why?

Marriage researcher and family therapist Pat Fagan once told me:

"When a child sees their mother loving their father they feel like their mother is loving them. When they see their father loving their mother they feel like their father is loving them. It is the only time in the human experience where you can be loved indirectly. No one's even looking at you or touching you or talking to you, but you feel loved."

That is not the case with a step parent, he said. The child may tolerate the romantic expression. But they do not experience that same circuitous love. More often they feel competition or jealousy.

If every child could order their own world, this is what they would say:

"I want my mom and dad to love me and I want my mom and dad to love each other."

Sometimes that's not possible. Woe to a culture that intentionally denies that to children in the name of adult freedom.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Don't let communists run your city, folks.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals:

“The engineer is judged by the end product. If he builds a building that collapses, it doesn’t matter how brilliant his idea was—he’s ruined.”

“Conversely, if an intellectual has an idea for rearranging society and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

"If I told you there was one free thing you could do every Sunday that would make your kids happier, healthier, smarter, and closer to you, you'd think I was selling something."

Take your kids to church regularly. I don't care if you believe. The data is so lopsided that skipping it is the parenting equivalent of refusing vegetables because you don't like the taste.

Grades. Religious teens get As at almost twice the rate of nonreligious teens. In a class of 100, that's 24 A-students instead of 14. Church gives a kid the same academic boost as being born rich instead of poor.

College. Working-class religious kids earn bachelor's degrees at double the rate of their nonreligious peers. Middle-class kids do it at 1.5x the rate. For families without a trust fund, this is one of the most powerful forms of upward mobility social scientists have measured.

Character. Religious teens are far less likely to lie, cheat, or do things they hope their parents never find out about. They're more likely to care about racial equality, the elderly, and the poor. They reject the idea that morality is whatever works for you in the moment. That kind of kid doesn't happen by accident. It's built.

Closeness. 60% of parents of religious teens say they feel "extremely close" to their kid, compared to 50% of nonreligious parents. The kids report the same thing back. They get along better with their parents, talk about hard stuff, and actually want to spend time with their family.

Despair. Religious teens are dramatically less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, or feel that life is meaningless. 90% of devoted religious teens never binge drink, compared to 41% of the disengaged. Economists named the modern epidemic "deaths of despair." Regular church attendance is one of the strongest known buffers against it. Parents are spending fortunes trying to solve teen mental health. The most evidence-backed intervention is free.

Purpose. Religious young adults report higher purpose, gratitude, life satisfaction, and resilience. These are the exact traits every parent says they want their kid to have.

Here's why it works. Affluent families already surround their kids with networks of stable, accomplished adults through neighborhoods, schools, and parents' colleagues. Working and middle-class families usually don't. A congregation is often the last institution in American life that puts your kid in weekly contact with dozens of stable, employed, sober adults who know their name. It used to be called "a village." Now it barely exists outside of churches.

"But I don't believe." Your kid doesn't need your theology. They need you to show up.

"But church is boring." So is sitting through a kindergarten music recital. Parenting is the deliberate choice to be bored on purpose for someone you love.

There's a church within 15 minutes of nearly every American home. You don't need money, connections, or credentials to walk in. Nothing else in this country will surround your kid with engaged adults, teach them moral seriousness, and give them a stable weekly rhythm at zero cost.

You already drive them to practices that produce far less. The free thing on Sunday produces more, on more dimensions, than almost anything else you do as a parent.

You don't have to believe anything. You just have to take them.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

This MRI study on young kids just exposed something terrifying:

They scanned the brains of 60 children aged 3–5 — including 5-year-old Rose — and found interactive screen time is causing measurable loss of white matter in their developing brains. Even just 2 hours a day is linked to impaired neural connectivity, language, and literacy development.

Professor Mike Nagel (neuroscientist and father) said his first reaction was simply: “Wow… I was not anticipating seeing anything like that.”

We’re physically changing children’s brains before they even start school — and the damage is visible on scans.

This one actually unsettled me. I’ve always suspected too much screen time was bad, but seeing real white matter loss in toddlers hits different.

Parents of little ones — has this kind of research changed how much screen time you allow?

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

The euphemisms exist for one reason — to obfuscate the truth.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

She did it AGAIN!!!! Idk how @JenniferSey keeps doing it but she does.

I’m definitely not crying over this one. My eyes just leak like this sometimes.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

To all the women being forgotten about. Except by a few of us.

[Rachel Wilson @Rach4Patriarchy]

I heard Kristi Noem was fired today 😏

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

“He [Trump] loves hiring women. It’s probably his biggest Achilles heel… If he would stop hiring women, it would get rid of a lot of his problems!” -Rachel Wilson on @joerogan

I remember laughing when I was listening to this jogging.

Had to go back and find the section to post.

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Christianity is the only worldview that makes suffering meaningful.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Tim Tebow shows senators a map of the United States showing every single location where someone is downloading, sharing, or distributing CSAM.

“We are losing the battle, and we are losing the war, and boys and girls are suffering for it…”

“Every red dot that is on there is someone that is downloading, sharing, or distributing [CSAM].”

“55% to 85% of them are also hands-on offenders, and we know that your average offender has thirteen victims in their lifetime.”

“The scale of harm right here in America is, to a certain extent, hard to comprehend, but that's why we're here.”

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

— Thomas Sowell