For some unknown reason, Thomas Jefferson is preoccupied this morning with recording the temperature.
He writes that upon awaking at 6 AM, the temperature is a pleasant 68.0 degrees Fahrenheit, but that it is creeping up toward 70.
On his way to Congress, Jefferson purchases a thermometer. It costs three pounds and 15 shillings.
No-body knows why he is so concerned with the temperature today, especially, and for what reason he desires an accurate read.
Today in 1913, Mary Phagan was murdered at an Atlanta factory, and Leo Frank, a superintendent and B'nai B'rith leader, was accused of raping and killing her.
He was later convicted; the case drew national attention and helped spur the Anti-Defamation League, though his guilt remains disputed and the accusations are considered unproven by many historians.
Not to pile on, seriously, but to make a theological point I feel VERY important. When Philip Yancey writes: "My conduct defied everything that I believe about marriage..." I think it's important to say that in fact he did NOT believe what he claims about marriage. Isn't that the real point here? Evangelicals focus so much on "faith" and "belief" that they have forgotten that HOW WE LIVE shows what we REALLY believe. This is part of the subject of my book LETTER TO THE AMERICAN CHURCH. The idea that I can claim I believe all kinds of things while BEHAVING as though I don't shows I don't ACTUALLY believe those things. We can focus TOO MUCH on moral behavior, but we have for some time focused TOO LITTLE on moral behavior. We've become so obsessed with preaching about "grace" and "faith" and against "works righteousness" that we've forgotten that FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. American Christians need to understand that our behavior matters to GOD and that saying we believe something while acting as though we don't means we do NOT have the faith we claim. The American church NEEDS to address this issue.
This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:22-26
No one banned Jimmy Kimmel from every major social media app.
That happened to Trump.
No one conspired to put Jimmy Kimmel in jail.
That happened to Trump.
No one fired a bullet at Jimmy Kimmel.
That happened to Trump.
And Charlie.
What happened to Kimmel is that his corporate employer decided he was no longer a profitable figurehead for its product distributed over the public airwaves.
That's it.
Jimmy Kimmel getting fired is not the greatest attack on free speech we’ve ever seen.
Charlie Kirk being murdered on national TV by a radicalized leftist who didn’t like the things Charlie said is the greatest attack on free speech we’ve ever seen.