Wendy J Murray

Author, editor & writer; biographer of saints; religion writer; flower farmer

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@Ferndiggity Wow --these are amazing

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@RevBerbig @megbasham Others as well took the same impression. She could do (and perhaps has done) harm to a respected leader with ill-thought-out commentary that could be so easily misconstrued.

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@RevBerbig @megbasham Thank you for clarifying; it certainly seemed as if she was commenting on Carl Trueman

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@megbasham @KelliB4Thee Please see my 2 inquiries above.

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@MikeWingerii See my comments above. I agree: we definitely need more sourcing.

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

Following up: I did an AI search trying to find any comments or information about Carl Trueman's stance on the matters you highlighted and AI did not come up with anything specific that would lead to the conclusions you've asserted. On Covid: "Trueman's public record on COVID appears relatively muted compared to more vocal figures." On CRT: "Trueman has been a consistent, public critic of CRT in evangelical spaces." On "Democratic policy": "Trueman has critiqued both Trump-style politics and Biden-era cultural policies (e.g., on gender). He advocates Christian realism over partisan capture and has noted failures on the right and left." Perhaps there is more that I am missing (and that Grok is missing). As an editor in chief of an evangelical magazine I would be grateful for more sourcing on your assertions. Thank you.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

@KatieMiller @DonnaDavisHNL @PamBondi Cancer data from 2023 is finally out, and it is very alarming.

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

Impressive

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

As many of you well know, Bob Dylan means a lot to me. His birthday is this Sunday, and I recorded his song “You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” in tribute to him. Happy 85th birthday, @bobdylan!

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@Kristinartz Pearl

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

Be sure to catch my updates on “Projects, Plans & Asides” on Substack. There is lots going on, including an update on lessons I'm learning as an aging writer. https://t.co/RezCjLLg3v

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

What seminaries are growing? Which ones are declining?

I compared the 2024 data from ATS to the same data from 2007 below.

Midwestern Baptist is up 290%
United Theological is up 244%

Southwestern Baptist is down 46%
Fuller Theological is down 63%

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

@Ferndiggity would agree.

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@woolismybread Beautiful. You are blessed. 🙏

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

NEW: @NASA Head on Life Beyond Earth

“I have to believe that there is life out there somewhere”

“I believe that if we are able to get to Mars and bring back samples from Mars, we will probably, with greater than 90% confidence, have some evidence of microbial life. Now that is not the aliens we see in the movies, but it would be a proof point that there is life outside of earth."

@thelatmg @latimesstudios_

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

This is very sad.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

It was with real sadness that I learned that the monks of the Abbey of La Trappe in Normandy are considering closing down their operation. As the name suggests, this monastery is the mother house of the Trappist Order, a reform of the Cistercian movement and a particularly intense form of Benedictine life, famous for its austerity and silence. I came to know of La Trappe through Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, whom I read with great passion when I was a young man. La Trappe shaped Merton, who in turn opened so much of the spiritual life to me. Founded over nine hundred years ago, La Trappe has survived the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, and the world wars of the twentieth century. That this venerable monastery cannot find enough vocations to keep it alive is, in my judgment, a sign of the spiritual disaster that has befallen Europe in the last hundred years: an ideological secularism that is rotting the soul of the West. Let's redouble our prayers that the monks of La Trappe might find a way to preserve their great Abbey. It is needed especially now.

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@samuel_leeds Well done!

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

@woolismybread Is there a link for information?

[Wendy J Murray @murrwen]

Chapter Seven of *The Warrior King* is up at my Substack. This chapter has two surprising twists. https://t.co/W5IVW9YqO4

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: For the first time in history, the remains of Saint Francis of Assisi have been brought out of the crypt and placed in a glass shrine inside the Lower Basilica in Assisi, Italy.

This is to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.