Joel Pelsue

Transforming the way Christians think about beauty, art, and culture.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

@_CLancellotti Agreed. It is convenient to blame a system. But if you don’t start with human depravity ...at the heart level, you have no hope in any meaningful change.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

250th music- Hard to beat this arrangement with Whitney Houston.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Turn the volume up.
Stand for the nation.
Sing every word.

For the 250th time…
Happy Birthday America. 🇺🇸

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

@JerryLeeBowyer Spencer Pratt should read your book. Send him a copy.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

In a world of takers, be a maker. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

@JerryLeeBowyer Has Spencer Pratt read your book? Send him a copy if he hasn't. Makers vs Takers!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

In a world of takers, be a maker. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

In a culture obsessed with the youth, we fail to honor our elders and learn from the wisdom that comes with age. It is lonely for them and a civilizational loss for us. Ironically, Hollywood has played a major part.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

"The bitterest pill to swallow isn’t physical pain. It’s the sudden absence of someone who genuinely wants to listen to you." 💔
​At 96, Clint Eastwood shattered our comfortable illusions about growing old, refusing to sugarcoat the harsh truth. He brought his trademark grit to a topic most people prefer to avoid, painting a stark, unflinching picture of what happens when a human being approaches a century of existence.
​"The light hurts your eyes, and even breathing can feel like hard work," Eastwood shared. "Your body just doesn't cooperate the way it used to, and every step requires a strategy."
​But the structural decline of the body is merely the surface. The real weight of extreme old age is emotional.
​Once you cross into your nineties, your social landscape undergoes a profound transformation:
​The people who shared your youth, your inside jokes, and your struggles have vanished.
​The circle of familiar faces shrinks to almost nothing.
​The phone stops ringing, and the pace of the days slows to a crawl.
​When the present becomes isolated, the mind seeks refuge in the past. Eastwood explained that navigating through old memories isn't mental weakness—it's a vital search for continuity.
​"You find yourself repeating stories, adding details, not to convince anyone, but just to feel like you’re still connected to something," Eastwood admitted. "You try to pass things down to the younger generation, even when you can see the boredom in their eyes."
​We live in a culture that treats longevity like a trophy, while totally ignoring the crushing loneliness that accompanies that survival. We praise the shiny, the fast, and the hyper-connected, leaving no space for the slow rhythm of the very old.
​Clint Eastwood may be a cinematic giant, but his words speak for every anonymous 90-year-old sitting at our family dinner tables. They are the living libraries of our history.
​The wrinkles on their faces aren't just signs of aging—they are a beautiful roadmap of a life fully lived. Slow down. Put away the distractions. It is a privilege to sit by their side and just listen. 🕊️✨
​#ClintEastwood #PerspectiveShift #GrowingOld #WisdomOfAge #HumanConnection #DeepThoughts #LifeLessons #EmpathyMatters #Loneliness #InspirationalQuotes

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

@EPPCdc @AaronKheriatyMD @RyanTAnd Always thankful for Ryan's wisdom, clarity, and passion for religious freedom.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

Thank you, Carol. The facts change the whole narrative.

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

Most people are taught a very simple story about American slavery.

But history is messier.

Anthony Johnson, a Black man from Angola, arrived in Virginia in 1621 as an indentured servant. He gained his freedom, became a landowner — and in 1655 won a court case to keep his

Black servant John Casor as his slave for life. This helped set an early legal precedent for chattel slavery.
In 1830 there were 3,775 free Black slave owners holding ~12,760 enslaved people.

Did you know this part of the story?
Does it change how you see the “simple” version we’re usually taught?

Share it if you’re tired of slogans and want facts instead.

Tag someone who needs to see this.
Facts > slogans.

#Virginia #slavery #HistoryMatters #enslavedpeople #AnthonyJohnson

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

This is the single greatest continuing horror that has occurred in the West in my lifetime, and yet most people don’t even know about it because western media and governments are complicit and don’t want to be called racist.

This was done by Islamic immigrants, invited in by suicidally stupid politicians.

Mass immigration of degenerates who religiously justify the rape of children in the name of Allah.

It’s still happening!

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

We need artists to write stories of this, filmmakers to make films, and musicians to expose the evil and cry for justice.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Those who knew must go to prison for a long time

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

If you can't see this, you are consumed by greed, jealousy, or another vice that obsesses on demonizing the rich without asking any other questions.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Mr Patel 🕉️ @Patelindianlion]

From Christian Homes to Slave Markets: 4.5 Million African Christians Brutally Enslaved in 2026:

While the world keeps obsessing over slavery from centuries ago, millions of Christians are being kidnapped, bought, and sold right now in Africa yet almost no one is talking about it.

Africa has 7 million people trapped in modern slavery.

4.5 million of them are Christians.

Among the victims: 2.4 million Christian women & girls
1 million Christian children

An average slave is sold for just $90.

Worst affected Christian populations: Nigeria: 1.611 million slaves (45-50% Christian)

DR Congo: 407,000 slaves (90-95% Christian)

South Sudan: 115,000 slaves (60-70% Christian)

These are Christian believers people who follow Jesus, read the Bible, and live their faith being ripped from their homes and communities into forced labor, sexual slavery, and horrific exploitation

Why is there endless discussion about historical slavery, but complete silence on this massive ongoing Christian slavery crisis in 2026 ?

Christian lives are under attack today.

It’s time to break the silence and demand attention for this tragedy.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

So simple, Multiculturalism is not the same as multi-ethnic. Multiculturalism is a Marxist ploy which undermines Judeo-Christian beliefs and culture. Multi-ethnic doesn't. The Ethiopian Eunich was never rebuked, but embraced by Philip. Christianity Transcends racial divides and geographical divides.Christ did not say go to "some nations, that look like us" to preach the Gospel...it was All Nations.full stop.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

Sounds so obvious "if" you acknowledge depravity and recognize how fragile societies are. They need to be cared for and we cannot assume they are impervious to destruction from internal tensions.

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.

1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.

2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.

3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.

However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

The "honor system" among a population that embraces moral relativism is is a system inviting thieves, crooks, and criminals to manipulate it for themselves. ...makes you wonder...if the criminals ARE the politicians in power. Just a thought.

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED!

Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore.

Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots.

California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered.

Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election!

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

If this doesn't worry you about the future you're not paying attention. People who cannot read, cannot think clearly...and therefore are easily manipulated.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

“We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

Another college professor adds to the chorus of concern about student capacity.

In @chronicle:

“Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it.

When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.

Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.

In February 2024, Adam Kotsko, who teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, wrote in Slate that students who once handled 30 pages of reading per class meeting now seem “intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.” Crucially, he added that this is “not a matter of laziness on the part of the students” but of underlying skills they were never given a chance to build.

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2024 investigation found the same pattern across institutions as different as the Stevens Institute of Technology and Wellesley College, where the average SAT exceeds 1400. Nicholaus Gutierrez, an assistant professor at Wellesley, told The Chronicle that the baseline for what students consider a reasonable amount of work has dropped so noticeably that he has cut his readings accordingly; a 750-word essay now strikes many students as long. At Stevens, the science and technology studies associate professor Theresa MacPhail described following the mantra of “meet your students where they are” for so long that she has begun to feel “like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard.”

Worse, the national data tell the same story in colder language. On the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing assessment, which is the most recent comprehensive writing benchmark, only 24 percent of 12th graders reached the Proficient level, and just 3 percent reached Advanced; another 21 percent scored below Basic. The reading side of the ledger is worse, and getting worse fast: The 2024 NAEP results released in September 2025 show 12th-grade reading scores at the lowest level recorded since the assessment began in 1992. Thirty-two percent of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading, meaning that, in the assessment’s own language, they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

If you really care about other cultures...

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Remember, all of these countries once had their own cultures and traditions before Islam.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

Islam vs Christianity? Personally...No comparison. Having lived in the Middle East, learning to speak Arabic and spending time with Muslims, whom I care for, and for whom my heart breaks, I know the beauty of the Gospel and the chains of Islam.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Let me be honest. I wanted to stay Muslim so badly.

Not even because of God at first, but because of the life attached to it.

My dad’s businesses were waiting for me. Signed and ready.

My mom’s community. Doctors, lawyers, politicians. Connections everywhere.

Success was laid out in front of me.

There was even an arranged marriage lined up. A doctor. Beautiful future. House. Wedding. Stability.

All I had to do was say one sentence:

“Yeah, I still believe.”

That was it.

Keep the money.
Keep the family approval.
Keep the life.

But here’s what ruined it for me:

I could not unsee Jesus.

Once I really read the Quran and compared it to the Gospel, I couldn’t force myself back into pretending.

And honestly, knowledge becomes heavy at that point.

Because I didn’t leave Islam to rebel.

I left because I could not betray what I believed was true.

No business opportunity, no relationship, no comfortable future was worth denying the King who gave His life for me.

So yeah, my life would have been easier if I stayed.

But when Jesus says, “I am the way,” you don’t answer with, “But the other path feels safer.”

You pick up your cross and walk.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

Freedom of speech is under attack in places we never expected.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

She wrote a church pamphlet on marriage and sexuality in 2004. This year, the Finnish Supreme Court used that pamphlet to convict her of “hate speech.”

Thank you @ShannonBream for highlighting Päivi Räsänen’s shocking story—and Europe’s censorship crisis—on @FoxNewsSunday.

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

Indeed, and High trust societies comprised of people of faith.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Definitely not

[Joel Pelsue @JPelsue]

Yes but for now, just automatic assault cars.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

@elonmusk Ban assault cars.