This is a better way to visualize Columbus’ voyages than the traditional way (that shows him traveling through a modern map)..
It looks a lot crazier and more daring when you see it as a trip into the unknown.
A prayer for Pope Leo XIV, the new Bishop of Rome. May God grant him wisdom and courage to preach Christ, guard the truth, and serve the Church. May he continue the spirit of dialogue and partnership with faithful Anglicans and the wider Body of Christ. Amen.
This is the decline in membership of the Seven Sisters of Mainline Protestant Christianity.
American Baptist: -24%
Disciples of Christ: -74%
Evangelical Lutheran: -45%
Presbyterian Church USA: -62%
Episcopal: -36%
United Church of Christ: -57%
United Methodist: -40%
It’s been years since my last academic conference. #ETS2024 in San Diego was great! I presented, saw old friends and professors like @Svigel, and saw twitter-people IRL like @ThomasSKidd@gavinortlund and @KaitlynSchiess. Looking forward to the next one!
Theology 101: Chances are, not everything about the church you grew up in was right, and not everything about the church you grew up in was wrong; graciously correcting the bad and gratefully embracing the good—these are marks of spiritual maturity.
Whatever else happens tonight, Amendment 4 losing in Florida is a tremendous source of encouragement for the pro-life movement nationally. It needed a victory and this provided it.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, take a few minutes to watch Justice Scalia’s moving speech about the Holocaust:
“The one message I want to convey today is that you will have missed the most frightening aspect of it all, if you do not appreciate that it happened in one of the most educated, most progressive, most cultured countries in the world.”
160 Christian Nigerians were killed by Muslim militias in a series of attacks against 20 villages over Christmas
Did international media make it front page news? Was there a “Million-Man March“ in London?
Mass-burials of the victims are starting.
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"Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were originally founded as seminaries. They are seminaries once again. The doctrine they embrace is both insecure and oppressive in its prohibition of insiders and outsiders from pursuing free inquiry." @BenSasse brings it
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