Monday, October 27, 2025

For when I am weak, then I am strong...

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.   -2 Corinthians 12:7-10

“My God, I have never thanked You for my thorn. I have thanked You a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross; but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to You by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbows.” –George Matheson

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The last time we saw such brazen state efforts to nullify federal law took place in 1957 at Little Rock, Arkansas (President Eisenhower versus Governor Orval Faubus); in 1962 at Oxford, Mississippi (President Kennedy versus Governor Ross Barnett); and in 1963 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama (President Kennedy versus George Wallace). Like their current counterparts, all such governors pleaded states’ rights, damned federal intrusion into their own affairs, and counted on their own state residents to protest and intervene for their shared anti-federalist and nullificationist agendas. Image

A Warning to New York: Don’t Let Anti-Western Ideologues Rewrite Our History and Lead Our Cities    New York deserves a leader who believes in its people, its history, and its promise—not an ideologue raised to see it as the villain of the human story.

New Report Gives Democrats Yet Another Warning That Their Far-Left Ideas Stink  Of the voters surveyed, 70 percent said the Democratic Party is "out of touch." Most of the voters surveyed said they believe Democrats over-prioritize issues such as “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change" over issues like “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.”

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Trump-haters’ White House ballroom tantrums get even more ridiculous If Trump is for it, a large segment of this country just has to be against it, and in the most overwrought, over-moralizing way. 
   They can’t help themselves.
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International Religious Freedom Is Under Attack This Anniversary  Nigeria is the deadliest country for Christians, with over 60,000 killed in more than a decade of genocidal terrorism, fueled by Islam. In fact, Nigerian clerics just appealed to the U.S. government after a series of deadly attacks this month.
   Kenya, Sudan, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are other African nations plagued with anti-Christian jihad. The Chinese Communist Party harshly targets, arrests, and kills Christians, Uyghur Muslims, and other religious minorities, including Falun Gong. Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, South Africa, Thailand, and Indonesia persecute Christians. In Pakistan and India, Christians are oppressed, and India and Bangladesh see regular clashes between Hindus and Muslims.

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Clearly this is a denomination in decline—but that decline is hard to quantify...

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: UK Muslim Tells UK Progressive This Brutal Truth   But I'm far from the only person who looks at Britain's meek and shrinking Christian faith, compares it to the country's growing and increasingly bold Muslim community, and sees a dire future for once-Great Britain.

Genetic risks are based on Mendelian inheritance, something we learned in high school biology. Family members share recessive genes that are much more likely to manifest in consanguineous marriages compared to unions of unrelated individuals.
    These elevated genetic risks manifest in conditions like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, congenital heart defects, hemophilia A, metabolic disorders, and others. The chain of inherited recessive mutations is subtle but real, and each generation of consanguineous pairing increases the likelihood.
   Any policy from a health authority that downplays or ignores those dangers is betraying its ethical duty to “first, do no harm.”

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Public opinion doesn’t shift overnight, but it can pivot sharply when people sense they’ve been manipulated. Climate policy has become a trillion-dollar industry built on exaggerated forecasts and moral panic. When respected scientists and former activists both say the emperor has no clothes, the spell begins to break.

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