🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: FIFA will examine the possibility of expanding the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams after the success of the 48-team format.
· FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the proposal will be reviewed by the organization's committees once the 2026 World Cup concludes. He argued that giving more nations a chance to participate helps grow football worldwide.
· Infantino pointed to the competitiveness of the expanded 48-team tournament, highlighting surprise performances from smaller nations and the strong showing by African teams as evidence that broader participation has improved the competition rather than weakened it.
When Charlie Kirk was murdered, those of us on the conservative side rightly chastised those of our political adversaries who cheered and celebrated his death. We accused them--again rightly--of shameful callousness and of polluting public discourse and coarsening social life. What President Trump does here merits the same chastisement, for the same reasons.
I'll always remember Chuck Norris as the man who changed the course of dodgeball history by casting the deciding vote that allowed Average Joes to play in the championship of the Las Vegas International Dodgeball Open where they upset the heavily favored Globo Gym Purple Cobras.
RIP. 🙏
Has any other show ever fumbled their series finale so badly that they just immediately make another season and pretend they were never ending the show at all
I am Edmund.
I will never forget reading "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" and thinking what a horrible selfish brat he was only to figure out later that he was an allegory for all of us.
The early church did not look Protestant.
It also did not look Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox.
The early church looked like the early church: imperial, diverse, foreign, changing, harsh, beautiful, and profound.
It is a tradition we all relate to—but no single church today owns.
Ben Shapiro: “The FCC should not be threatening action against ABC or its affiliates or Disney based on Jimmy Kimmel being a jacka**. He’s been a jackla** his entire career. Social censure is perfectly appropriate. The blowback from the public is totally natural and good because Jimmy Kimmel is in fact a schmuck that should have been taken off the air 10 years ago.”
“I do not want the FCC in the business of telling local affiliates that their licenses will be removed if they broadcast material that the FCC deems to be informationally false.”
“Why? Because one day the shoe will be on the other foot.”
After a lot of reflection, I still think Lewis’ “Lord, Liar, or Lunatic” argument works. The key is establishing that Jesus really did claim to be God—if you can eliminate the “legend” option, the logic flows naturally.
My favorite expression of this isn’t in Lewis’ apologetics, but in his fiction:
“Logic!” said the Professor half to himself. “Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth.”
The trustworthiness of Lucy meant being open to magic wardrobes. The trustworthiness of Jesus means being open to a similarly enchanting reality.
Geno Smith has taken TWO hits that should have been 15 yard flags. A late hit right there, and a hit to the helmet earlier. We got neither of them. If this was Mahomes, the defenders woulda been ejected.
I'm sorry but this is stupid. My pastor mentioned Charlie Kirk, he and I even talked more about him afterwards. But the primary goal of a Church is to preach the Gospel and to administer the sacraments. We cannot cause continuous schism.
“Of course that’s your contention, you’re an inquirer, you just got done listening to some YT shorts with, Jay Dyer probably, and you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to Joe Heschmeyer, then you’re gonna be talking about how Mary and the Mass have roots in Second Temple Judaism. That's going to last until next week, you're gonna be back in the VC talking about Christian Wagner, talking about "Strict Observance Thomism and the Development of Doctrine"....
Sola scriptura doesn’t mean “Scripture only” (nuda scriptura) as if tradition has no value. It means Scripture is the final authority—the standard by which all other authorities must be measured.