@NSdeSoledad@RealShahriqKhan I am no theologian but martyrs emulate Christ by offering their life for God (because other humans not God put them in that position. ) The jihadist KILL for God and are willing to die violently. I think that’s a big difference.
Political difference is not abuse.
I wrote a whole book about loving your enemies years ago, and I meant the people whose politics turn your stomach. Watching families come apart over politics has only convinced me of that even more.
To be clear, I'm not talking about abuse. There are relationships you have to leave because your safety comes before anyone else's feelings. If you're in one of those relationships, leave it.
But over time, the line has crept. More and more, we're told that political disagreement itself is a reason to cut off a parent, a sibling, or a child.
I think that's a terrible mistake.
The people selling estrangement know exactly what they're doing. They take your real pain, attach it to their politics, and leave you alone with the consequences. They get the attention and the moral certainty. You get an empty chair at Thanksgiving. And if you can no longer imagine loving someone because they voted differently than you did, you've lost something much more important than a political argument.
So before you cut off someone you love over politics, ask yourself who benefits from the distance. Sometimes the answer is you. But more often than we care to admit, the people who benefit most are the ones you've never met.
Rodney is a great, great American who has created one of the best, simplest, most beautiful multiplying acts of charity in the country. Been following him for years. Let’s get some Raising Men & Women Lawn Care kids on the WH lawn!
I was impressed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference. He indeed addressed a number of particular political issues, but what most grabbed my attention was his stress on the common culture that unites Europe and America. He cited Dante, Shakespeare, the Sistine Chapel, Cologne Cathedral—even the Beatles as expressions of basic cultural intuitions that still inform the West. But he pressed the matter further, insisting, in the spirit of both Christopher Dawson and Pope Benedict XVI, that that culture is grounded ultimately in the Christian faith. It is simply the case that reverence for the dignity of the individual, for human rights, for political freedom, and for equality comes, in the final analysis, from the Christian Gospel. Basic to his presentation was the conviction that Europe and America will truly flourish when each re-discovers its spiritual mooring.
Additional recovered footage, from the same camera - at the same timeline the morning of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. This footage is just before the original video shared, with the individual approaching Nancy Guthrie’s front door.
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I want to talk to you today about morning prayer. It’s very simple: one of the first things we do in the morning is dedicate the day to Jesus and ask for His help. @thegnewsroom