The funny thing about crucial conversations is how fast they clarify everything while removing the scary things you anticipate. Everything before that is just dread—the kissin' cousin of anxiety—pretending to be prophecy. Just be two people who want to talk things through.
What's your take on Tucker?
Carlson: “After 35 years of voting Republican, I’m no longer a member of the party.”
He ripped the GOP for putting foreign interests ahead of America, calling it “immoral.”
Now he’s expressed regret for helping elect Trump and says he’s tormented by it.
Do you think Tucker is shortsighted and underestimates America’s role on the world stage, or do you agree with him?
🚨 BREAKING: Tucker Carlson announces he is no longer supporting the Republican Party.
"There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party... how could I, or any American voters, support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States?"
The research I do tends to draw me farther and farther away from viewing persons and parties through a salvific lens, and has served to deepen my faith in Christ alone.
I cringe when I see the work I’ve done co-opted by people who use it for sheer partisan warfare.
Politics is only a surface level projection of a more important spiritual war that rages beneath.
When you only see things in terms of “Republican good, Democrat bad,” you miss the plot entirely.
If you see the truth as merely a weapon against your political adversary, it only goes to show that “the truth” you embrace is actually only the partial truth, since truth unadulterated exposes all, especially the wolves among sheep, and reveals the world’s need for king Jesus.
WHAT WE'VE LOST
If we were still on the old (pre-55) calendar, we would have just ended yesterday a series of four successive octaves lasting more than a month.
First is the Octave of the Ascension, in which we contemplate for eight days the great mystery of Christ's departure to heaven and his promise to send the Holy Spirit.
Then a few days after that Octave ends we begin the great Octave of Pentecost, which remembers the sending of the Holy Spirit and His indwelling in us.
Just four days after the end of the Pentecost Octave is the start of the Octave of Corpus Christi, celebrating the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
And the day following that Octave is the beginning of the Octave of the Sacred Heart, focused on God's great love for us.
For some reason the liturgical reformers (of both the 1950's and 1960's) in their wisdom believed that a more "simplified" calendar would help us to focus more on Christ and His work. So they dropped all these octaves.
Yet to me, the overabundance of octaves over the past month focuses the mind and the soul on God's great love for us and His work in saving us. I don't see how replacing these octaves (mostly with "ordinary time") accomplishes the stated goal; in fact, I would argue it does the opposite.
"The answer to the problem can be found among those suffering the problem." - Bob Woodson (1937-2026)
45 years. One principle. It never changed. #SpiritofRenewal
God does not waste your wounds. Every rejection you've survived has been shaping something deep inside you: patience, grit, & the skill of real compassion. So reject loveaphobia. The person who'll eventually love you will be loved by someone the easy road could never have formed.
🚨Shocking: A Philadelphia high school student reportedly faces disciplinary action after exposing classmates’ reading struggles.
What’s the real issue, the content of the video, or the literacy crisis it highlights?