Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace...

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. -Hebrews 4:15-16 Image

Above all, beware of letting go the spirit of peace because of your faults. Humble yourself before God because of them, repent, make such reparation for them as you are able, and then do not dwell upon them any more. It is often mere pride which frets at finding itself beset by the same often renewed faults, and at its lack of spiritual progress. Do not deceive yourself into the belief that such disquiet is humility. A really humble soul accepts its faults with patience, and goes afresh on in confidence and hope. -Jean Nicolas Grou

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In post-religious Britain, people assume that the church is irrelevant. It is not. Even among those who are resolutely secular, the assumption remains that priests of the church are a moral lodestar representing integrity, truth and conscience. So when they speak about Israel, people believe them. This has had a devastating effect, because for decades the church has been promulgating incendiary calumnies against Israel with a theological underpinning that casts the Jews as the party of the devil. Its importance in helping create today’s insane levels of Jew-hatred should not be underestimated.
   Shockingly, the church has allied itself with evil.

Welsh Victims, Including Girl Assaulted 1,000 Times, Decry Muslim Gang Coverup The British government’s cover-up of the massive Muslim sexual assault gang scandal continues to blow up, as victims in Wales try to call attention to the crisis in their area.

British police say murder of former minister Ann Widdecombe was a targeted attack  A 28-year-old man is suspected of murder and terrorist offences.

Catholic teacher says she was fired for answering students' questions about abortion, religion  A Catholic, American-born teacher in Scotland says she was fired after answering students’ questions about life in the United States, including questions about abortion, President Donald Trump and the transgender issue.
   Sarah Morse, 66, is taking Arbroath High School, run by Angus Council, to an employment tribunal, alleging discrimination. The tribunal is expected to begin Aug. 24.

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Report says Arkansas and Tennessee do the most to protect the religious rights of their citizens while New York and Vermont do the least

James Talarico: Christians are ‘Christofascists’, Islam is a “Path to Truth”  Christianity is far more violent than Islam, according to him, and has caused far more damage to Islam than the other way around.

Another Church Conquered: Allahu Akbar Rings Over Virginia — One-Way 'Interfaith' Replaces American Heritage  A landmark building from the 1800s, the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, with deep African-American roots and founded by a former slave, stood in the tiny riverfront town of Occoquan, Virginia.
   In 2021, it was sold to a small Muslim congregation. Two years later, it became Masjid Al-Hussain, the only mosque in Occoquan.

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Study: Apple and Google News Suppressed Negative Stories About Graham Platner for Months  And look at the lengths it took for the polls to finally turn—a rape allegation by a fellow Democrat published in Politico.

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Can You Guess Why Newsom’s Nanny State Is Starting to Go Through People’s Garbage?  Starting this month, Sacramento is sending city workers out to peer into residents' garbage, recycling, and organic waste bins, all in the name of complying with a mandate from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.). The California legislature passed the law behind this intrusion, SB 1383, in 2016, and it took effect in 2022. The stated goal was to cut organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025 to reduce methane emissions and slow climate change.


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China funds American judges’ training on how to use climate change to shut down USA oil companies   The Environmental Law Institute, or ELI, has trained more than 2,000 American judges on environmental law through its Climate Judiciary Project.
   ELI takes Chinese money, advises Chinese regulators tied directly to the CCP intelligence. They then turn to weaponise the American court system against the USA’s own energy companies, Leslie Eastman writes.

‘Political agendas’ and workforce prep concerns drive decline in higher ed confidence: poll  Concerns about academic rigor and political indoctrination have led to a continued decline in Americans’ confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll.

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American Red Cross announces emergency blood shortage as supply falls 25% The summer season often skyrockets the need for blood in trauma care centers due to increased travel, car crashes, outdoor recreation and other summertime emergencies. Meanwhile, busy schedules and the loss of school blood drives during summer break cause donations to plummet, leading to the drastic shortage, the Red Cross noted.
   The non-profit also emphasized blood has a very limited shelf life, which leaves the Red Cross to completely depend on a steady stream of donations 

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Hochul’s Halt of Data Center Construction in New York Is Met With Dismay The decision of the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, to halt data-center development statewide for a year is prompting a backlash from those who say it will further damage upstate New York’s already sagging economy. Image


Millionaires are Fleeing New York — Taking $11 Billion in Tax Revenue With Them  “Had New York maintained its share of the nation’s millionaires over the past decade, personal income tax collections would have been substantially higher.”

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Trust in the Lord, and do good...

Trust in the Lord, and do good;
    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your justice as the noonday.
-Psalm 37:3-6

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Trump is not a perfect vessel, but without him and for what he stands the West is lost. We had better realise that before it’s too late.

White House Report Exposes Smithsonian’s War on American History  The material in exhibits and supposedly educational materials created or endorsed by NMAH leadership focuses on demonizing white people, valorizing illegal aliens, and promoting transgenderism and abortion. In the name of transgenderism, the museum had sexually explicit drag queen material available to young children. In fact, almost all of the exhibits and programming were geared toward extreme left-wing activism, which NMAH both promoted and occasionally participated in. For instance, the museum collaborated with illegal alien activists to remove a North Carolina sheriff from office.

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By now, you’ve heard of a concept called “luxury beliefs.” It’s a recurring thing these days, unfortunately, and it’s not difficult to identify. Luxury beliefs are, in essence, beliefs that are used to accumulate status among those who are financially well off.
   Basically, they need a way to signal they’re good people, so they spout certain ideas that cost them absolutely nothing, even if they are taken seriously and actually happen.

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WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT ABORTION  If your argument requires a flowchart explaining why a member of Homo sapiens isn’t really a member of Homo sapiens, maybe it’s time to ask whether you’re solving a moral dilemma, or just rebranding it.

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I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age. They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving. Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list… and the ones you might least expect...

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him...

Behold, the eye of the Lord 
is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his steadfast love,
that he may deliver their soul from death
    and keep them alive in famine.

Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
For our heart is glad in him,
    because we trust in his holy name.
Let your steadfast love, 
O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you.
-Psalm 33:18-22

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This is only one of many things downstream of mainline and progressive denominations becoming untethered from, and drifting away from, the authority of Holy Scripture and secondary confessional and historic liturgical norms for ecclesial life. As such, these trial liturgies in Canada are not so much a bellwether portending future problems to come, as a symptom downstream of the prior commitments that J. Gresham Machen so powerfully contrasted with orthodoxy in his powerful and prescient Christianity and Liberalism. The publication of these ghastly trial liturgies forces us to ask: is Christianity in general — and the Anglican pastoral and liturgical expression in particular — an authoritative account of truth and goodness to which we must assimilate ourselves, or a technique that people can use to establish their own sense of meaning derived from other sources?

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Let’s get the easy part out of the way, which is not being old. The Democrat Party is a gerontocracy. As we’ve seen, the boomer generation has clutched onto power, sucking the lifeblood of the young to keep themselves in office forever. U.S. Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), former president Joe Biden, U.S. Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), and many others—what do they have in common besides a relentless commitment to Moloch? They think Methuselah is a whippersnapper. Only now are they beginning to loosen their grip, and that’s simply because they’re literally too old to maintain it.

Manufactured Moral Outrage...The Democrats rely on this technique to move the political needle, but there are simple ways to counter it    Activists on the left use psychological and rhetorical tactics to reshape public perception. Taken together, these tactics form a predictable pattern that transforms ordinary disagreements into moral condemnation. This pattern facilitates ridicule, leads to social exclusion, and, in extreme cases, provides justification for harm.


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ERASING AMERICA: How Leftist-Islamic Allies Use Street Names to Dismantle Western Identity   In Bridgeview, Illinois, another American neighborhood has fallen. At the intersection of 87th Street and Harlem Avenue, local leaders unveiled “Little Palestine Way” alongside “Wadea Al-Fayoume Way.” This was an act of cultural conquest.
   Renaming asserts dominance by controlling memory and belonging. Conquerors don’t just occupy land – they rewrite the signs so the conquered internalize the shift. Bridgeview’s move fits the Muslim Brotherhood’s documented “Project” for gradual Islamization: build enclaves, influence institutions, normalize parallel societies, and leverage causes like “Palestine” to unite radicals and useful allies on the left.

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Dangerous bacteria contamination levels trigger urgent health warnings at popular beaches from coast to coast  From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beaches across the U.S. are grappling with the same stinking problem. 
   Most beach closures are triggered by elevated levels of enterococcus or E. coli—bacteria that can wash into the water after heavy rain, when stormwater runoff carries sewage, pet waste and other contaminants into rivers, lakes and the ocean.

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Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi   Under Mr Xi's iron-tight grip, China has expanded its nationwide suppression of Christians during the last decade, arresting more than 10,000 people, according to Bob Fu, the founder of ChinaAid, a charity for victims of persecution in the country. Image
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Increasing Number Of Ivy League Students Can’t Even Read, So Let’s Stop Calling Them ‘Elite’  The literacy crisis has certainly made its way to universities, but it did not begin there. A survey by The New York Times found that high schoolers are reading very few full books every year — often only one or two. Rather than assigning full books, the survey found, teachers instead assign short excerpts from texts in the hopes that students will read them. In the digital era, educators are catering to students’ shortened attention spans.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026

God Is Faithful

 
God Is Faithful (Psalm 114)
Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
God brought out His people with a strong and mighty hand
Took them out of slavery to behold the Promised Land
Mountains fled before them and the seas turned back and ran
And they saw that He was good
 
CHORUS 1
God is faithful to His promise
He is with us, He is with us
God is faithful, God is faithful to His own
 
VERSE 2
God has come to free us from the bondage of our sin
Tasting of His kindness we cannot go back again
Leads us through the desert to the rivers of His grace
Working all things for our good

VERSE 3
We have known Your mercy and Your love as in the past
If days be few or many You will guide us to the last
You have said it, we believe it, every promise holding fast
For we know that You are good
 
CHORUS 2
God is faithful to His promise
He is with us, He is with us
God is faithful, God is faithful to His own
You are faithful to Your promise, 
You are with us, You are with us
You are faithful, You are faithful to Your own

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Friday, July 10, 2026

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own..."

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all." ...JC Ryle

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The Return of Socialism and the GOP's Golden Opportunity  In an April speech in Austin, Texas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that progressivism and American constitutionalism are fundamentally incompatible. He's right. It's also true that socialism — real, genuine socialism — is incompatible with the American way of life as it's been experienced for two and a half centuries. That's a fact — and it's a powerful argument to make in this milestone 250th American birthday year, in particular. Republicans should make that argument passionately and with alacrity.


Islamunist Mamdani Torched for Erasing Little Italy, Little Ireland, and Jewish Areas from Map of NYC, Includes Little Palestine New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being shredded over a map of the Big Apple that glaringly omits iconic neighborhoods such as Little Italy, Little Ireland, and Jewish areas. Instead, there is heavy representation of Islamic enclaves such as Little Palestine, Little Pakistan, and Little Egypt, among others. The map was part of the World Cup tourism campaign, and Italians are calling it an insult to one of the communities that helped build New York.

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Threatens Everyone Who Owns Anything  Fuel costs went up 11% in the last year, and insurance went up 10.5%, but Mamdani’s RGB announced Thursday that landlords will get no increases this year or the next. And, according to Mamdani’s campaign promises, not even in the years after, as long as he is mayor.
   Zero rent hikes will cause buildings to rapidly fall into disrepair — just what the new mayor intends. On May 29, he announced that when landlords fail to keep buildings up to code, “we will take aggressive legal action” to “transfer ownership to responsible stewards — stewards that include community land trusts, nonprofits and even the tenants themselves.”

“A specter is haunting America — the specter of communism.” That is a variation of the opening line of The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which states: "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism."
   Is it possible that the ghost of communism is indeed haunting America? How could that be? Didn’t we win the Cold War?

25 Million Communists in America...43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably  Demonstrating once again that at least part of the problem is the extended educational system, postgrads are the educational group with the highest level of support for Communism. Their 16% “very favorable” rating for Communism exceeds that of even Gen Z.
    Government employees are among the most positively disposed towards Communism with 14% “very favorable” towards Communism and 17% somewhat favorably disposed so that 31% or nearly a third of government employees have a positive view of Communism.
   A few generations ago we would have seen that as an urgent national security crisis. Now it just helps explain why our system works so badly and why the bureaucracy is so radical.


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Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Really Is Slashing Violent Crime   Nor is it a coincidence that the record influx of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration coincided with a sharp increase in violent crime. It is equally unsurprising that crime has fallen as deportations have increased. Deportation records show that 70 percent of illegal immigrants deported during the Trump administration had either criminal convictions or pending criminal charges in the United States. Even those who avoid arrest understand that any contact with law enforcement could lead to deportation, giving them a strong incentive to stay off the police’s radar and avoid committing additional crimes.

Fifth Circuit Rules Against In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens  It is important to note that the ruling specifically states that universities cannot provide in-state tuition to aliens when it does not provide such benefits to American nationals regardless of residency. It therefore undercuts the tuition break for foreigners on the explicit argument of it being unfair to citizens not residing in the state i n question.

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Strongest El Nino In 75 Years Sets Off Food Supply-Chain Alarm Bells   The CPC, a NOAA/National Weather Service unit that issues official US government climate outlooks, wrote in its report that sea-surface temperatures at least 1C above normal have spread across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, with an 81% chance the event becomes "very strong" and ranks among the largest on record since 1950. Some parts of the Pacific were 2.7C above normal last week. Image

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Meet the 15-year-old prodigy trying to unlock the secrets to human immortality  By the time many children are still settling into middle school, Simons was already moving through high school. He graduated at age 8 and began undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technolog before turning 10.
   He later shifted to physics at the University of Antwerp after scheduling problems disrupted the engineering program. The change did not slow him down.

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Kaiser Nurses Sound the Alarm That AI Surveillance Threatens Patient Care and Human Dignity  This push toward surveillance-heavy AI in healthcare fits a troubling pattern. Large institutions, often shielded by layers of bureaucracy and progressive policy, embrace unproven technologies while sidelining the experienced judgment of frontline workers.
   The result? A system that treats nurses not as skilled caregivers but as cogs in a machine optimized for throughput and savings.

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom 
and knowledge of God! 
How unsearchable are his judgments 
and how inscrutable his ways!
 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”
 “Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”
For from him and through him 
and to him are all things. 
To him be glory forever. Amen. 
-Romans 11:33-36

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Platner drops out of crucial Senate race after bombshell rape allegation torpedoes campaign  Platner's withdrawal clears the way for Maine Democrats to name a new challenger to Republican Sen Susan Collins...

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Trump Administration Targets Medicare Fraud After 7,100 Percent Surge in Transplant Claims  Administration officials said Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants, known as allografts, climbed from $200 million in 2019 to $14.4 billion in 2025—a 7,100 percent increase.
    The surge led the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force, headed by Vice President JD Vance, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to intensify their review of claims. Since March, the agency has denied 96 percent of allograft claims identified during the review.

Staggering education fraud uncovered as SoCal school leaders stole $20M to bankroll lavish lifestyles   A new report revealing the staggering extent of fraud in America’s K-12 education system highlights a pair of California school leaders who separately stole nearly $20 million from their schools to bankroll their lavish lifestyles.

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New world screwworm spreads across Texas, threatening livestock and beef prices   A flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in at least 31 locations across Texas. State and federal officials are working to contain the outbreak, as it threatens the state’s multibillion-dollar cattle industry.
   The United States Department of Agriculture has confirmed 32 new World screwworm infestations in the United States: 31 in Texas and one in New Mexico. Cases span 12 Texas counties and 23 separate premises. The most recent detection, a sheep in Crockett County, was confirmed July 3.

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Report Lays Out the Leftist 'Ideological Capture' of the Smithsonian   The report, which was published on Saturday, July 4, particularly took aim at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), accusing its leadership of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."
   The report accuses the museum of "anti-White activism," "illegal alien activism," and "transgender activism." It also includes many photos of materials the White House has identified as problematic.

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Bangladeshi Muslim Migrant in UK Rapes 12-Year-Old Autistic Child   Notice that the prosecutors ascribe his “hostile attitude towards young girls” to “his culture.” The words “religion” and “Islam” are not mentioned. But Islam is his “culture.”

Nearly 30,000 Christians killed in Nigeria in six years   Tens of thousands of Christians are losing their lives to violence in Nigeria, many of them at the hands of radicalised Fulani herdsmen, a new report has warned.

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More Deaths on American Highways at Hands of Noncitizen Truck Drivers The Trump administration, led by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, is ridding America's roadways of noncitizen truck drivers. But the death toll continues to rise amid legal and blue state pushback


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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  
-1 Peter 1:3-5

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And when they vote Democrat, they are automatically, and always, voting for people who believe that a woman has a right to murder her unborn baby; that men can become women, and vice-versa, just by saying they are; that children can be mutilated for life and have a “gender change” for purely sexual reasons; that two people of the same gender can be acceptably “married” with God’s approval; that people from any nation on earth can come to America illegally for any reason they desire, be given the hard-earned money of American taxpayers, have a right to “free” healthcare, education, driver’s licenses, have the right to vote, and don’t even have to be deported to their home country when they commit the most heinous crimes against American citizens; etc., etc. etc.  My space is limited. This is what people who vote Democrat vote for, regardless of how “nice” they might be themselves. This is not righteousness, godliness, or decency; this is depravity gone to seed—at least based on the traditional moral values of the United States and Western Civilization. Image



New Yorkers Are Already Mad at Mamdani, and He's Just Getting Started  "New York residents are furious at Zohran Mamdani over power restrictions," Wall Street Apes reported on Monday. "Con Edison implemented 8% voltage reductions in parts of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and northern Manhattan. This means residents have to deal with things like slightly [dim] lights and appliances not working at full power."

Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues   The recent crop of Democrat politicians and the spellbound scullions who support them have something in common: They're crazier than squirrel scat.
   Each successive wave appears to be wackier than the last, which seems impossible considering what the Democrats have thrown at us in the last five years...

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Anglican Church of Canada: Pastoral Liturgies Blessing Euthanasia  By offering the supposed imprimatur of Christ — because that is whom the church is supposed to represent as His mystical body — to being euthanized and euthanizing, the Canadian Anglican Church has further normalized killing as an answer to human suffering. Perhaps even worse, its validation could result in deaths that might have been prevented as receiving the blessing could become the tipping point for some suicidal persons choosing lethality over struggling on.
   This will be of no consequence to those who are not believers. But for Christians throughout history, blessing euthanasia would be a most profound scandal.



PCUSA declares support for body-deforming trans surgeries for kids  The Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has passed a measure expressing support for body-deforming sex-change surgeries for youth exhibiting gender dysphoria.

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63 Million Barrels Of Iranian Oil Stuck At Sea After US Pulls Iran Sanction Waiver  The Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday prompted immediate US reaction with the USmilitary striking multiple targets in Iran and the Treasury canceling the waiver on Iran’s oil sales that was supposed to be in place until August 21.


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Syracuse chancellor launches task force in wake of enrollment declines and financial deficit  The school’s tuition has continued to rise alongside its commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.


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