Another teen takeover last night, this time at North Avenue Beach, involved more than 100 of Chicago’s finest youths.
When they got bored enjoying the sand, they moved west.
-A group of teens attacked someone at State and Division.
-Some kids attempted to steal an SUV at LaSalle and Clark.
-A woman was hit at Elm and Lake Shore Drive.
-One kid was caught with a gun.
-Another fight broke out at Clark and North.
At about the same time police were dealing with a takeover involving hundreds of kids at 57th Street Beach.
Just blocks away, three men were shot.
Please choose Chicago as your vacation destination this summer, where you can interact with the wildlife and savor the food.
And remember, don’t demonize our youth who are just looking for something to do.
Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines.
A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us.
For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when @OrthodoxEthos and @Acts17David were discussing and it is what I have seen in @gavinortlund's videos.
In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on?
I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.
🚨 HOLY CRAP!! Cook County, Illinois Democrats ran a pre-trial program for murders and sexual assaulters so they WOULDN'T BE IN JAIL awaiting trial...
...and 8% OF THEM JUST WENT MISSING! Untraceable.
243 criminals — including murderers, attempted murderers, and sexual assaulters, AWOL.
"They have NO idea where they're at. NONE. ZERO."
They were supposed to be on ankle monitors. But they're now LOST. Now a wild GOOSE CHASE is underway!
So there are roughly 243 DANGEROUS and VIOLENT criminals on the loose right now.
Enjoy, Illinois. You voted for this.
This was the same program ignored by a known career criminal with 72 arrests. He violated curfew, boarded a Chicago train, and set a stranger ON FIRE.
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