Blessed is the one who finds wisdom...

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,

 and the one who gets understanding,

for the gain from her is better than gain from silver

and her profit better than gold.

She is more precious than jewels,

    and nothing you desire can compare with her.

Long life is in her right hand;

    in her left hand are riches and honor.

  -Proverbs 3:13-16

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty. Acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.   -J.I. Packer

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Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become? -VD Hanson No matter—following his premature death at 66 in 1993, Chavez was canonized, as his postmortem reputation reached angelic status. There is hardly a major California city today that does not have a street named after him. His name is emblazoned on state and federal buildings. His birthday, March 31, at least for now, is still a California holiday. There is a USNS Cesar Chavez cargo ship. Chavez statues dot California campuses. Until recently, few have ever questioned the canonization of Chavez.

   But this past week’s recent disclosures—long known among his inner circle and always suppressed for the supposed greater good of the union movement—have revealed that Chavez was a hero with feet of clay. Image

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Salt Lake City’s Woke Mayor Praises Ramadan as If It Has Brought Us Everything That Is Good  As she complacently praised Ramadan, hoping for short-term electoral gain, the hijab-clad Erin Mendenhall was the very model of the modern useful idiot. Yet one thing is certain: there will be much, much more Islamopandering in this country before there is any general awakening to the religion’s aggressive, violent, supremacist and expansionist aspects. If that awakening ever comes.

Europe Shows How It Deserves to Be Conquered by Islam      Now, what about America? It’s not a question if this can happen in America. We’re already seeing what’s happening in Dearborn, Minneapolis, and increasingly in Texas and in New York City. 

   The American people do not want for themselves what is happening to the Europeans, but it is happening. Now is the time for this country to take note and take the necessary steps to assure that America’s laws, America’s culture, and America’s freedoms do not suffer the slow rot we’re seeing happen in Europe.

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Unthinkable: A Church Leader Funding Abortion With Adult Toy Sales  The facts alone are jarring. A clergy member--someone entrusted with teaching Scripture, shepherding souls, and upholding the moral teachings of the Christian faith--is openly promoting sexual products while financially supporting an organization that performs hundreds of thousands of abortions each year. For many believers, this is not merely a disagreement over secondary issues; it strikes at the heart of what the Church is called to represent.

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The Quiet Collapse of the American Restaurant   And it’s not one dramatic collapse. There is no single moment you can point to and say, “That’s when it all fell apart.” Instead, it’s thousands of quiet closures, a lease not renewed, a location that simply doesn’t reopen, a family deciding they can’t keep going.

   Those closures feel subtle. They happen without headlines, without press releases, without national attention. But the list above tells a different story. When hundreds of locations are closing across major national chains, when bankruptcies and restructurings are happening at scale, that is not quiet, not subtle, and not just background economic noise. That is something breaking in plain sight.

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