Saturday, June 06, 2026

It is the Lord who goes before you...

It is the Lord who goes before you.
He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. 
Do not fear or be dismayed.”   
-Deuteronomy 31:8

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Henry Nowak’s death is a sign of civilisational collapse   A dying teenager lay on the ground telling officers he had been stabbed and could not breathe. Yet according to the subsequent reports and bodycam footage, police initially treated him not as the victim but as the likely aggressor because his killer alleged that he had uttered a racial slur. The accusation itself appeared sufficient to shape the officers’ assumptions before they had established the most elementary facts of the scene.
   The horror of the case lies not only in the murder but in the sequence of priorities it revealed. In that moment, the possibility of verbal impropriety seemed to carry greater institutional weight than the visible collapse of a human being.


UK: Christian PCSO barred for questioning Islam wins legal settlement  A Christian former police community support officer has won a legal settlement from North Yorkshire Police after taking legal action when he was forced out of his role and permanently barred from policing for asking questions about Islam during mandatory diversity training.

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Turkey's hidden Christian past: Extraordinary discoveries are rewriting the story of early Christianity A series of remarkable archaeological discoveries across Turkey is reshaping our understanding of how Christianity evolved from a small persecuted movement into one of the world's most influential religions.
    From exceptionally preserved images of Christ to ancient churches, coded Christian messages and evidence of fierce resistance to Roman emperor worship, researchers are uncovering new clues about the faith's earliest centuries in the very region where Christianity first took root beyond the Holy Land. Image

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California Dethroned: Fortune 500 Crown Goes to Texas Billionaire Tax threat looms large as California businesses still fleeing the once Golden State.

AI Can Learn Violent Tendencies From Each Other  Large language models (LLMs) are secretly teaching each other unwanted habits through seemingly benign training data, scientists say.

Lawmakers Warn China May Be Fueling US Data Center Backlash as Local Bans Spread  In the wake of these developments, it’s important to note that the House Energy and Commerce Committee asserts there is evidence that “strongly suggests” China and other foreign adversaries are fueling campaigns opposing data centers to undermine the U.S. in the artificial intelligence race.

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Friday, June 05, 2026

God is love...

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.   -1 John 4:16-18

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Talarico has made a name for himself with his brand of progressive Christianity, a belief system that says God is non-binary, that the Bible permits abortion, and that the Ten Commandments are an act of violence, especially when displayed publicly.
   That whole 'Thou shalt not kill' thing must strike a nerve, given how radical Talarico is on abortion — he wants federally funded abortion clinics on public land — and that his church pays to take women out of state to obtain abortions.
   This is also why Talarico has to dehumanize the unborn, comparing them to tapeworms instead of human beings made in the image and likeness of God.


I used to be very careful to differentiate between the corrupt Democrat pols who lied their way into office, and the merely gullible and/or greedy Democrat voters who put them there.
   But in one election cycle, Democrat primary voters have (or likely soon will) choose a Nazi, a heretic, a sex freak, and yet another Islamist, over much more palatable candidates.
   That's on you, Dems — and I don't know who the hell you even are anymore.

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Pure, Cold Rage: What Henry Nowak’s Murder Says about the State of Britain in 2026...Britain’s elites built a system obsessed with policing bias; Henry Nowak’s death shows what happens when that obsession eclipses justice   Instead of taking the victim’s anguished cries seriously as he lay bleeding to death—“I’ve been stabbed”: “I don’t think you have, mate” (an actual exchange)—the police dragged him across the ground like a sack of garbage, handcuffed him, and paid more attention to a mark on the killer’s face and a dislodged turban.
   And then it was too late.

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When Apostate Pastors Make Disciples: The Dangerous Legacy of Progressives  During a Sunday service at Rigby's church, congregants were asked what came to mind when they heard the name of the Apostle Paul. The responses included "villain," "homophobic," and "he's a jerk."
   Imagine that for a moment.
   The Apostle Paul was not merely an influential Christian thinker. He was chosen by Christ, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and responsible for much of the New Testament. Through his writings, God gave the church foundational doctrines concerning salvation, grace, sanctification, marriage, church leadership, and Christian living.
   Yet in this congregation, one of Christianity's greatest apostles is openly ridiculed. Image

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The Media Wants To Know Why Men Are Walking Away From Liberal Society?    The idea of "toxic masculinity" is a woke feminist fallacy; a creation meant to shame men for their natural behaviors, their normal biological roles and the inherent ways they deal with the world.  The important thing to remember is that feminism has not been about equality for decades.  Women have had social equality and legal superiority over men in the west for some time now. 
   Rather, feminism is about keeping men in line and under control to prevent any rebellion against the liberal epoch.  After all, women have no inherent power.  They gain power by convincing men to give their power away through government.  By convincing men to behave in the name of modern civility.

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Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds A silent war is playing out across rural America.
   Residents are packing themselves into local county meetings in incredible numbers and calling on their representatives to oppose gargantuan data center projects, developments that could cause electricity prices to spike, drain water supplies, and generate copious amounts of noise.

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Thursday, June 04, 2026

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes...

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it to the end.
Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.
Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I delight in it.
Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to selfish gain!
   -Psalm 119:33-36

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From Grooming to Honor Killing: The Euphemisms Protecting Sharia Violence Against Women  Western authorities and media have perfected many linguistic shields to protect Islam, but two of the favourites are:
-“Grooming” for the systematic rape and trafficking of perhaps hundreds of thousands of British girls by Muslim gangs.
-“Honour killing” for the premeditated murder of wives, daughters, and sisters who violate some component of sharia or Islamic culture.
   Both terms do the same job: they sound vaguely cultural, vaguely tribal, and comfortably pre-Islamic. They deliberately drain the violence of its religious and doctrinal content. They protect the ideology.

Mamdani Goes Full Communist with Plans to Seize Private Property  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a housing plan last week that would make Karl Marx blush. Undoubtedly the most outrageous part of the self-avowed socialist’s scheme is a pledge to confiscate private buildings and “transfer ownership” to whomever Mamdani pleases, including “community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.” It’s communism, plain and simple.


Islamic State Killing Christians Across DR Congo: More Than 1,100 Dead and No End in Sight  While Christians are being slaughtered and kidnapped on a daily basis in Nigeria, Christians are also being massacred in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Like in Nigeria, the perpetrators are not Mennonites. They are Islamic extremists.

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Henry Nowak’s Murder Is The Logical Conclusion Of Black Lives Matter The circumstances of Nowak’s murder almost defy belief. On their own, they would be enough to send Britain into a spiral of race riots and civil unrest — if Nowak had not been white, and if his killer had not been Indian. As it is, the murder of Henry Nowak will probably not trigger the kind of rioting that George Floyd’s death did in the United States. But it does perfectly illustrate the logic of Black Lives Matter: racial minorities are to be believed and preferred, white people are not — even in cases where whites are the victims of violent crimes. Image

Let us be clear about what this means. A man is facing criminal penalties for saying publicly that ‘God so loved the world’. Not as part of a protest or as a targeted intervention, but as an act of ordinary Christian witness – a common practice in Northern Ireland, which has some of the highest rates of Christian practice in Western Europe. If Randall’s case had been chilling, Johnston’s represents something far more definitive: the formal criminalisation of religious speech. The Bible, in effect, has been found guilty.

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Republican Support for Same-Sex Marriage Collapses, Falling Almost 20% since 2022  It’s time to understand, she stressed, “Obergefell actually victimized children.” The moment “we made husbands and wives optional in marriage, mothers and fathers became optional in parenthood law. The problem is that, for children, their mother and father are never optional. It always leaves a lifelong wound. It always destabilizes their existence. It hampers their identity formation. It hinders their development,” she told Perkins recently. “We need to get back to the place where we are elevating and promoting the one family structure where children have their mother and father in the home, and we want to tell the court that they need to make a choice. They can either have gay marriage, or they can protect children’s rights to their mother and father. But they can’t do both.” Image

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Dems replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in latest woke rewrite of NY law  “At a time when New Yorkers are being crushed by utility bills, rising costs, and public safety concerns, Albany Democrats have decided one of their final priorities in the last days of session should be replacing mothers and fathers in state law,” said Sen. Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R-Nassau). “That is not what families are asking for. I am a mother and proud to be called ‘mother.’

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University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT  “We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics, and other quantitatively demanding fields,” the faculty wrote. “UC has finite resources and can help only so many students.”

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Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Look carefully then how you walk...

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.  -Ephesians 5:15-17

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From Delaney Hall to ‘Freedom 250,’ lefty violence is what real insurrection looks like  Ten days and counting of anti-ICE riots outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall.
   Threats made to the safety of performers booked for a national celebration of America’s 250th birthday.
   We could be in for another long, hot summer of leftist violence.

New York’s 1.47 Million Voter Roll Fraud Unmasks The ‘Safe Blue State’ Myth A damning discovery of voter registration fraud in New York has flown under the national radar. Andrew Paquette, the research director of the New York Citizens Audit — a non-partisan group of New York citizens who use publicly available voter roll databases obtained directly from state and local boards of elections — discovered 1.47 million voter registrations that currently possess identical signatures. This is an impossibility among legitimate registrations and a clear violation of the law. A number this large is cause for concern no matter the margins of any given election.


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Harvard Divinity School Launches Journal Devoted to ‘Queerness,’ ‘Palestinian Liberation’  So even for those of us who think universities should have wide latitude for free expression and not a lot of sacred cows, it’s more than a bit much for the Harvard Divinity School dean’s office—after all that has happened in recent years—to subsidize the production of an openly non-scholarly magazine devoted to redefining Judaism into something that will strike many Americans, justifiably, as a perversion or as insanity. If anti-Israel Harvard students want to produce a queer erotic poetry magazine named after a Canaanite idol, let them do it on their own without the university’s name or financial support. As for the professor who thinks it’s a worthwhile project, he’s subtracting from, rather than adding to, what remains of the university’s reputation.

I Watched an Evangelical College Die From the Inside   Christian higher education was never supposed to be sustained by memories of the good-ol’ days. It exists to form human beings who can live truthfully and faithfully in God’s world as image-bearers called to love their neighbors. They exist to form the Christian mind. That mission does not disappear because the financial model is broken. But it does require institutions to act with the kind of clarity and courage that sentimentality makes impossible.
   The institutions that survive will be the ones that face their actual situation honestly, make decisions that correspond to reality, and remain genuinely committed to the theological mission that is the only real reason for their existence.

Nantucket Church Cancels July 4th Celebration to Understand 'Our Own Whiteness'  A church on the liberal island of Nantucket has decided that they don’t want to celebrate Independence Day this year because they want to figure out their whiteness or some ridiculous thing

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Chief exorcist of DC archdiocese says demons disguise themselves as aliens, UFOsmHe has cited 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 as an indication that demons can deceive human beings with “wonders” such as that of apparent UFOs: The lawless one comes “with all power and with pretended signs and wonders … with all wicked deception”; God sends a “strong delusion” so that people “believe what is false.” O’Connor says we may understand this to include a great end-times deception involving aliens and UFOs.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2026

So we do not lose heart...

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.   
-2 Corinthians 4:16

Receive therefore every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. -William Law

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The blue-haired weirdos, race hustlers, commies, and other degenerates that make up the bulk of the Democrat party don’t want to hear the truth. They want to see you on your knees, chanting their sacred dogma without hesitation, equivocation, or dissent. That’s why Democrat autopsies can’t work. They can’t hear the hard truths because the truth is evil if it conflicts with what they want to believe. They would much prefer to embrace a politically correct wrong than an electorally useful right.

RFK Jr. announces largest autism fraud bust in history Kennedy highlighted that the original cost of the Early Intervention Development Program was a mere $38.1 million in 2020, but that it had ballooned to $442 million in 2026, with much of that increase stemming from fraud.

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A bill before Congress would ban what our eyes can clearly see as a monstrous procedure—dismemberment abortion

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Foreigners Have Taken 90 Percent of Post-COVID U.S. Jobs  An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data shows that since the pre-COVID peak, around 90 percent of net new jobs in the U.S. have been filled by foreign-born workers.
   The data, highlighted by Official Layoff (@LayoffAI) on X (formerly Twitter), indicates that foreign-born employment has increased by 4.3 million since February 2020, while native-born employment has only grown by 471,000. This shift has raised the foreign-born share of the workforce from 17.5 percent to 19.6 percent—almost one in five.

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Young people come of online age swimming in an endless stream of YouTube and TikTok videos and websites that command their attention and indoctrinate them with ideas that often are not benign. The mass and social media bombard them with the dire predictions of a climate apocalypse. They are offered countless reasons to consider themselves helpless casualties of history. Artificial Intelligence, they are told, will rob them of an economic future by making traditional jobs obsolete. “Influencer” has somehow become a status job despite its utter emptiness. And a socially “just” society demands that young’uns abandon aspirations of achievement or the demonstration of merit, lest they become the oppressors.
 Pure and simple, youth are exhorted every day to follow somebody else’s beliefs, standards, and ideologies. Their online diet is not about learning, reasoning, questioning and skepticism, but about conformance and fear. They are being proactively “de-educated” – that is, indoctrinated. Image
  
Artificial Intelligence Is Rewarding High School Grads For Being Dishonest Frauds This means that students can sleep through instruction, submit AI-generated work for the handful of assignments they have, and somehow finish the semester with college credit and a perfect grade for the class. Sure, this credit and grade are worthless since the student didn’t actually learn anything or do any work, but schools will pretend this isn’t the case and parents are only looking at the grades. In the short term, everyone (except the AP teachers who no longer have any students) wins. 

The anti-AI backlash is building against tech oligarchs playing God   The problem is not so much the technology but with the people building it, who have attracted the enmity of all political sides;

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The Wake-Up Call We Ignored: 2011 Footage Exposes Islamic Grooming Gangs' Conquest of Western Girls  The American segment is even more damning for U.S. audiences who think “this only happens in Britain.”
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Canada Needs A Real Reckoning For The ‘Mass Graves’ Hoax   Anyone who dared doubt the Kamloops story was promptly cancelled. A teacher who questioned the existence of the mass graves was fired. A political science professor in Calgary was fired for suggesting that the residential schools had some educational benefit. Censorship and punishment were all ramped up at the expense of free speech. Canadian tribal leaders routinely called the residential school system a “genocide,” and compared the nuns and priests who ran it to Nazis.
   It didn’t matter that in the ensuing months, or even years, no hard evidence of mass graves ever emerged.

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Monday, June 01, 2026

Blessed be the Lord!

Blessed be the Lord!
    For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
      my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to him.

The Lord is the strength of his people;
    he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
    Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
-Psalm 28:6-9

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Over the past two weeks, there have been nightly and escalating riots at the D   elaney ICE Detention Center. 
   Massive resources have been poured in by outside NGOs funded by leftist billionaires, foundations, Neville Singham, and the Chinese Communist Party. Protesters from around the country have assembled there, expensive riot gear provided to the activists, and even scripts given to selected spokespeople to push out a carefully constructed message.

Antifa Thugs in Portland and Newark, Laying Siege to ICE detention facilities are PAID. Here’s who pays them   These are not grassroots demonstrators, but bought and paid for Insurrectionists, being paid for destroying property, injuring government personnel and bystanders, and creating mayhem and chaos.

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AI, Papal Encyclicals, and Eternal Hubris: Why Magnifica Humanitas Misses the Mark  Magnifica Humanitas is not only long. It is also prolix. Like the eponymous river in Turkey, it meanders. Its ostensible subject—the threat that artificial intelligence may pose to human flourishing—is counterpointed throughout by nuggets of politically correct sentiment. There is a lot about “economic injustices and the climate crisis” in this expostulation. Also migrants. He quotes with approval Pope Francis’s insistence that we view migrants “not simply as a problem to be managed but as a living image of the People of God on the move.” Image

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Canada’s State-Sponsored Suicide, Now Available At Your Local Drive-Thru The National Post reported this week that a London, Ontario doctor provided a euthanasia assessment outside a Tim Hortons then drove the patient (who suffered from inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues) to the facility where a doctor ended his life.

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Is the Country Smothering Under a Blanket of Darkness? Or Is There Room for Hope and Optimism?  If you want to know the answer to that, do not consult our media. Take a fresh look around you and talk to normal Americans.

Democrats abandoned segregation but never entirely abandoned paternalism.

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Islam Has Always Been in America? Really?...Barack Obama’s big lie is repeated in Illinois  “Islam,” Obama declared, “has always been part of America.” Really? There were Muslims at Jamestown? In the Massachusetts Bay Colony? At Roanoke? Obama’s statement is so wildly ridiculous that it doesn’t just invite parody; it pleads for it. Remember the Muslims among the Founding Fathers, Yahya al-Adams and Iskandar Hamilton? Remember the Muslims who told James Madison about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina so that he could lay out the foundations of a republic in the U.S. Constitution?

France, once the proud heart of Western civilization, has fallen. Decades of unchecked mass immigration from North Africa, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa have demographically transformed major cities into Islamic strongholds. In many neighborhoods, native French citizens are already minorities in their own neighborhoods, while higher birth rates and continued chain migration continue to accelerate the shift.

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Coast Guard Eliminates Racially Biased Officer Commissioning Standards  Trying to force certain quotas does not make the military more diverse, but it does make it weaker. Eliminating explicit racial considerations from officer commissioning ensures the most qualified and patriotic candidates rather than individuals whose career depends not on their ability to command men and address crises, but simply on what epidermal coloration God gave them at birth.

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Saturday, May 30, 2026

The God Who Fights For Us

 
The God Who Fights For Us 
Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
There is a war we cannot see, 
a fight that’s raging in the shadows
A hidden power, our enemy, 
arrayed against the saints in battle
Oh, bride of Christ, lift up your praises, 
You stand upon the Rock of Ages

CHORUS
Who fights for us? The Lord of hosts, 
our strong defense, our only hope
His mighty hand will bear us up, 
we praise the God Who fights for us

VERSE 2
There is a war within our flesh, 
we hear the whispers of temptation
They promise life, but lead to death 
and steal the joy of our salvation
Oh, bride of Christ, look to your Savior, 
His Spirit’s power in you is greater

CHORUS
Who fights for us? The Lord of hosts, 
our strong defense, our only hope
His mighty hand will bear us up, 
we praise the God Who fights for us

VERSE 3
There is a war that has been won 
for Christ has triumphed over evil 
Our debt is paid, the curse undone, 
the Lord will not forsake His people 
Oh, bride of Christ! All for His honor, 
the risen Lamb for you has conquered

CHORUS
Who fights for us? The Lord of hosts, 
our strong defense, our only hope
Who fights for us? The Lord of hosts, 
our strong defense, our only hope
His mighty hand will bear us up, 
we praise the God Who fights for us

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Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob...

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord his God,
who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps faith forever;
    who executes justice for the oppressed,
    who gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets the prisoners free;
    the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    the Lord loves the righteous.
The Lord watches over the sojourners;
    he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
    but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
  -Psalm 146:5-9

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Washington Nationals Fire Sean Hudson After Undercover Video Reveals Anti-Christian Company Culture   Hudson was let go Friday, days after James O’Keefe published footage of him explaining, in his own unguarded words, why pitcher Trevor Williams had been frozen out of the team’s social media promotions. The reason was not Williams’s pitching, his personality, or anything resembling a baseball decision. It was his faith.

In health care, vile hatred and threats against Israelis and Jews are patently ignored and even celebrated.

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The evil people do against others is often mentioned in Scripture, yet one particular type of evil seems to sit in the shadows: betrayal.  Betrayal is, however, a theme that emerges in transformative ways with historical significance, coming to a climax in Judas’ betrayal of Jesus.  Old Testament narratives and psalms of betrayal prepare the way for this climactic betrayal of our Saviour.  Moreover, they also minister to us in the very real and painful experiences of betrayal. Image

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Questions about technology are, ultimately, questions about humanity: if technology is a means to an end, is the end we are seeking life-giving, or is it destructive? Does it help us to be the people who God created us to be?
   Will we be people who work, harnessing the power of technology rather than being slaves to it?
   Will we be people who are relational, or will our interactions with other humans, made in God’s image, be replaced by interactions with chatbots who we create in our own image?
   And above all, will AI help us to be conformed into the image of Jesus? Image

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Qatar's Jihad on Texas' K-12 Public Schools: Promoting Islam and Whitewashing Terrorism in Public Classrooms   Qatar is pouring millions into public schools to push Islamic indoctrination, force praise of the Prophet Mohammed, and whitewash terror groups like Hamas as “resistance.” From all-Arabic Saudi textbooks in Texas to radical curricula reaching over one million students, this is stealth jihad targeting America’s children.


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Fear and Algae in the Hamptons: How Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Invading the East Coast’s Swankiest Waterways   As the summer season begins, upper-crust New York’s go-to destination is facing an unfortunate “flesh-eating bacteria” situation in the ponds and bays near $40 million houses. The summer vacationers aren’t too fazed, but the head of an organization representing the local oystermen says it’s a manufactured crisis.

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Babylon Bee Asked AI to Simulate the 1st Woman President 
and the Results Are Exactly What You Expect

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