Friday, November 21, 2025

“Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?”

And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?” -Matthew 8:23-27

"Why are ye fearful? Doubt not but the ship will come safe to land; though Christ seem for the present to be asleep, the prayers of His disciples will awake Him, and He will rebuke the winds and the waves; though the bush burn, if God be in it, it shall not be consumed." -Matthew Henry

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DOJ Arrests U.S. Citizens and Chinese Nationals for Exporting AI Tech to China The indictment alleges that from Sept. 2023 to Nov. 2025, the four defendants conspired to violate the license requirements by illegally exporting advanced GPUs to China through a circuitous route. The chips would be shipped from the U.S., first through Malaysia, then through Thailand, and ultimately to mainland China.

Somali terror group al-Shabab ‘taking a cut’ of millions in stolen Minnesota taxpayer money from welfare fraud scheme: report   In recent months, the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office has uncovered multimillion-dollar fraud schemes targeting the state’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program and a federally funded autism services for children program. 
  The state’s top prosecutor believes “billions of dollars in taxpayer money” has been stolen as a result of fraud.
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Democrat charged with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, illegal campaign contributions Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., was indicted Wednesday on charges she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said.

Who's Pulling the Strings Behind Dems' Contemptible Ad Calling for Military to Disobey Trump Orders?    This time, these resistors want the U.S. military to disobey all those illegal orders that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Commander in Chief Donald Trump have been issuing, of which there have been exactly zero. 
   The point, however, is to leave the nagging, unspoken, and unsubstantiated questions lingering in the ether to treat President Trump's use of the military with disdain and mistrust.

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More People Using AI For Key Life Decisions: Are We Giving Up Control?  From breakups and divorces to cross-country moves and career jumps, more people are asking chatbots to navigate critical life choices every day. A new wave of reporting shows users leaning on AI for high-stakes choices because it feels neutral, smart, and always available. The risk is obvious: when judgement gets outsourced to software that was designed to please, bad decisions inevitably look glossy and we slowly lose all control.

YouVersion founder talks pastors' embrace of AI as app surpasses 1B users  Equally concerning to him is AI’s inconsistent relationship with biblical text. Because most users cannot recite passages word-for-word and biblical literacy is overall low, they may never realize the mistake.
   “The models misquote Scripture,” he said. “At best, they’re inaccurate 15 percent of the time; at worst, 40 or 50 percent. … That’s unacceptable for us. We want YouVersion to be a trusted source. We can’t have people wondering if the Bible they’re reading is accurate.”

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Sweden’s Lutheran Church Forces New Pastors To Conduct Same-Sex Weddings  The reform means that parishes will be required to refuse admission and employment to candidates unwilling to marry same-sex couples, effectively making this a condition for ordination. Image


Notre Dame dumps its Catholic orientation, Vatican goes woke, and moral disorder reigns Wittingly or unwittingly, they are doing the Devil’s bidding … and sowing the seeds of destruction rather than redemption.


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'Jobs Americans Won't Do': The Lie That Broke a Nation and the Economic and Social Devastation It Hid  Charlotte, N.C., is making headlines this week because dozens of construction sites have gone silent. ICE swept through the region, and the labor force evaporated almost instantly.

Sen. Bernie Moreno: Democrats ‘Gutted Our Working Class‘ Importing 10 Million Foreign Workers   “We’ve got to move with quicker urgency. So that’s — the gut punch that the working class took in this country over the four years of Biden can’t be overstated. I mean, they totally and completely gutted our working class. They brought in millions, 10-plus million foreign workers, caused a housing crisis, caused an insurance crisis, caused a food crisis, then they did all the things that they did during COVID which just created incredible amounts of depression among young people [and] raised the price of automobiles,” the senator said, laying out the sad state of affairs.

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Homeschooling Is Booming, and the Pandemic Has Little to Do With It The most common reason cited was concern about the school environment, including safety, drug exposure, or negative peer pressure, with 83 percent of parents saying it was a factor. Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at schools was also a top concern, cited by 72 percent. About half of parents said the desire to provide religious instruction and to provide a nontraditional approach to their children’s education were factors.

Read the conservative op-ed the Texas A&M student paper refused to publish You aren’t teaching us how to think; you’re teaching us what to think. You turned a marketplace of ideas, where each side is supposed to be heard equally, into an indoctrination camp where only the approved party line is parroted. You created the first generations in world history without love for their God, their family, or their country—and then wonder why they’re miserable.
  Meanwhile, China, Russia, and our competitors teach their engineers calculus and physics, not gender studies and wokeness. They laugh at us as they dominate in AI, energy, and manufacturing. Excellent-don't miss!

Radical Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating US colleges to ‘transform Western society from within,’ report warns   The Muslim Brotherhood is halfway through its plan to “transform Western society from within” by covertly embedding its allies and ideology on college campuses and in other mainstays of American life, a new report warns.
   The analysis, published Wednesday by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), calls on the US to designate the Islamist group a terror organization to thwart its efforts to penetrate all aspects of American life.

Faith and Freedom Night canceled at Stanford amid threats and high security costs  Organizers say the combination of high security estimates and online threats demonstrates a broader free-speech obstacle facing conservative groups. Critics argue that unpredictable cost projections act as a de facto restriction on politically sensitive viewpoints, even when universities cite neutral policy.

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UK: How are home abortions ‘progress’ when they’ve hospitalised 50,000 women in five years? One in 17 women who take abortion pills at home ends up in hospital. Behind that statistic lie human stories: women bleeding in their bathrooms, frightened and alone, unsure what is happening to their bodies. Image

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Doctors “Astounded”: Long-Held Belief About Coffee and Heart Rhythm Was Wrong Although people with heart conditions such as A-Fib are often told to avoid caffeine because it might worsen symptoms, new research suggests the opposite may be true. A collaborative study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Adelaide found that drinking one cup of caffeinated coffee per day lowered the risk of A-Fib by 39%.

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Why The Screwtape Letters Still Resonates with Millennials and Gen Z  As Screwtape writes with chilling prescience: “It’s funny how these humans picture us as putting things into their minds. Our best work is done by keeping things out.”
    This is where the digital world excels. Push notifications, autoplay and infinite feeds have transformed our tools into temples of distraction. According to Digital Information World, the average American now spends over seven hours a day in front of a screen; for Gen Z, it’s closer to nine. Screwtape wouldn’t need to invent a thing. The safest road to hell is now algorithmically optimized.

 
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