Welcome to Transfigurations! This blog is intended to serve the orthodox Christian community. We pray that all that is posted here will be faithful to the Scriptures as the inspired word of God, speak the truth in love, edify, bless and transform the body of Christ, and be an impetus for revival, repentance, prayer and intercession!
Friday, October 16, 2026
Sing to God, sing praises to his name...
Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;
Compassionate Socialism? It’s Time to Have a Sit-Down With That Young Socialist You KnowSocialism cannot work in a free society. And it doesn’t work in an unfree society, because human nature takes over. Once you’ve submitted yourself completely to the state, as socialism demands, a handful of people at the top will declare themselves rulers over you. No longer are you a free citizen. Now you are a comrade, which is a nice way of calling you a “subject.” And you will have no choice but to trust people who cannot be trusted.
Now More Than Ever, the Survival of the Constitution Is on the Ballot Should the DSA get even more people elected to Congress, the Dem establishment will be absolutely steamrolled by them, and the full-on assault of the Constitution will be underway. These people are unhinged, anti-American, and quite proud of it. They are already showing us their lizard faces.
Democrats Are Targeting Small Towns Through Migrants And Low-Turnout Races Such down-ballot races are low-hanging fruit for energetic leftist candidates who only need a tiny handful of votes to get themselves elected mayor or a seat on the town council. This is happening in a small town near you. Once the left captures more local offices, their candidates are on the way to gaining in statehouses and beyond.
According to city records, no buildings are currently even under consideration by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), the department charged with protecting sites of beauty and significance from bulldozers.
We know the condition of the American maritime industrial base. We know how long it takes to build and maintain ships. We know the pressures facing our workforce and supply chains. We can see the pace at which potential adversaries are expanding their maritime capacity.
We also know that technology is changing warfare at remarkable speed.
Why are Dems so complacent or complicit about the spread of radical Islamism? Wake up, folks. The problem is not the West. It is not American foreign policy. It is not poverty. It is not colonialism. It is fundamentalism itself. A virus that is spreading. A virus that means synagogues and Jewish schools must be protected by armed guards. A virus that will greedily exploit any vector, Democratic politicians most of all, to replicate. A virus whose adherents lack that most civilizing of human virtues: doubt.
Beheading and Killing: The Permissions in the Earliest Islamic Records The texts and the earliest biography authorize fighting until religion is Allah’s, the killing of Jews who can be reached, the subjugation of Jews and Christians by tax or death, the breaking of terms when it pays, and the execution of apostates. When Hamas cites that inheritance and carries out mass killing, rape, burning, and kidnapping, it is applying the permissions in Ibn Ishaq, the major hadith collections, and Surahs 9 and 2. It is not inventing them. Set those permissions beside the dead, the hostages, and the filmed boasts of October 7. The correspondence stands.
Unfortunately, three children (ages 5, 8, and 11) and one teacher were killed before the shooter was stopped. A 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were also critically injured. Both were transported to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend.
"Compared to when these parishes were formed and our churches built, there are significantly fewer people coming to Mass. Some of our largest churches are in places where there are the fewest people.”Hire Architects
The lack of priests was given further attention in the letter, with Nolan pointing out that in his five years as Archbishop the number of active priests had dropped by a third. Of those that remain, most are over 60 and only one is under 45. Image
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray...
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
-Luke 5:16
Prayer has everything to do with moulding the soul into the image of God, and has everything to do with enhancing and enlarging the measure of Divine grace. It has everything to do with enriching, broadening and maturing the soul’s experience of God. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. -E.M. BoundsImage
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How did it come to this? How is it our nation's voters are allowing it to be turned over to its socialist enemies In summation, when did so many of us become timid, disengaged, deluded little amoral fools? The relatively few folks who do seem very engaged, activated, and angry … are engaged, activated, and angry at the even fewer folks who are trying to stop or limit the crime, fraud, and corruption. This is truly hard for a rational and moral person to comprehend.
Did we somehow get placed in a bizarre parallel universe? Is this Dante's Inferno? It appears that we haven't slouched toward Gomorrah as much as we have raced towards it. Image
How Barack Obama’s Islamic Socialism Spawned Abdul El-Sayed And Zohran Mamdani Obama’s Kenyan father and his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, were both Muslims. Obama spent much of his childhood in Indonesia, attended a mosque, and, at an impressionable age, was reportedly educated in a school that exposed him to Islamic teachings and traditions.
Abdul El-Sayed was raised as a Muslim with Egyptian roots. Zohran Mamdani grew up in an interfaith household. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, was a Muslim. Mamdani has said that his Muslim identity was “politicized” after 9/11.
Why would a community give center stage to an apostle of destruction? And yet, on an autumn night in Iowa, in the name of free speech, a man was permitted to stand in front of city council to pray to the chief agent of destruction -- whether you regard Satan as real or mythical.
It reveals how unbuckled we are from time-honored American societal norms and, in the bigger picture, Western civilizational values and beliefs. Undergirding those norms are deeper Judeo-Christian convictions -- convictions that are directed at protecting and raising up life; prospering, not withering; building, not destroying.
It's the taxes, stupid. Florida, Tennessee, and Texas don’t tax wage income at the state level. California and New York, meanwhile, are near the top of the list of highest state income tax rates...
-It's the poor education and high crime, stupid...
-It's the inequality and uneven law enforcement, stupid...
Blame high taxes, over-regulation — and the governor’s distinctly hostile attitude toward business.
Hochul is crisscrossing the state with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist jobs-killer who put the kibosh on an Amazon headquarters in Long Island City.
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We Followed The World's Deadliest Migration Route-FULL DOCUMENTARY
Escape From Rotherham... It’s too late for Europeans to save their culture. But it’s not yet too late hereThere’s more. As it turns out, it wasn’t just in Rotherham, or one area of Britain. This was actually happening in most British towns everywhere at the same time. The same M.O. Gangs of mostly Pakistani men drugging, raping, and grooming an entire generation of underage British girls. It’s hard to comprehend how widespread this was. We learned recently that there were at least 250,000 young girls experiencing this horror show. Jordan Peterson claimed it was likely greater than half a million and possibly as many as a million girls. This is possibly the most horrific rape scandal of all time, anywhere. And we’re now learning about similar happenings in most European countries.
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake...
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. -1 Peter 3:14-17
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God. -Thomas à Kempis
The Debanking Review by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) investigated 100,000 complaints and scrutinized 50,000 internal bank records to reveal how customers were “debanked” based purely on their political, social, or religious beliefs.
DOJ Uncovers North Korean Network Stealing Jobs and Money From AmericansThe Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged a dozen people involved in schemes to obtain remote IT positions in America using falsified identities in order to funnel revenue to the tyrannical Communist dictatorship in North Korea (DPRK).
Socialism And Islam Are Both Religions Based On Pillaging The WestThis is why today’s communists are joining forces with today’s Islamists, and why Muslim socialist politicians like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed exist. Both ideologies hate the West, yes, but they also hate working. Their idea of democracy is that the mob can “vote” for stealing money from wealthy people, and their idea of justice is to do whatever they want while living off others in perpetuity.
By subsidizing Western educational institutions, our enemies have influenced and changed curriculum, administrators, and teaching staff. Revisionist history is replacing truth as the method of brainwashing the younger generations into believing blatant lies. Students are being “taught” with a curriculum of self-hate, hate of country, and shame. The Islamists and Socialists refer to this generation as “useful idiots.”
The Palestinians have played the West, and here’s the awful proofEver so occasionally, the utopian Palestine of the liberal imagination and the Palestine that actually exists are forced to come into conflict. One such moment came last weekend when the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, 20 years into his four-year term, once again cancelled democratic elections across the territories.
The presidential and legislative elections were due to be held at the end of November, and they have been pushed back by almost a year. For some countries – including France, Canada and Australia – the whole illusion of the “state of Palestine” rested not only on that state embracing democracy, but on a supposed Palestinian commitment to holding elections within a year of a ceasefire in Gaza. Image
Feds Have ‘Probable Cause‘ Ilhan Omar Committed Immigration Crimes“The big picture here is a federal judge in Washington, DC, signed off on a search warrant. That means there’s probable cause that a federal crime was committed, and there would be evidence of that crime in the area to be searched, which in this case was Representative Omar’s home,” Fahey told the New York Post‘s Chadwick Moore.
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Pastor Removed by Police from School Board Meeting After Reading from Library Book in North CarolinaPastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr. was removed by police from the Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education meeting on October 12, 2026, after he began reading excerpts from the novel *Push* by Sapphire, also known as Ramona Lofton. The book is available to students at Lake Norman High School in the district.
To Combat 'Racism,' New York's City Council Plans to Punish White and Asian StudentsThe soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again. In New York, the City Council is moving to get rid of tests for specialized schools because whites and Asians outperform blacks and Latinos. Remember, not too terribly long ago, we learned that Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a failing public school that spent $52,000 a year per student, only for Hannah-Jones' daughter to be unable to write or do math.
Indeed, the concern over LED light is mainstream and growing. Dr. Glen Jeffery at UCL’s Institute of Ophthalmology has found that the blue-heavy light from typical LEDs lowers the membrane potential in our mitochondria, thus impacting the electrical charge that lets our mitochondria produce ATP, the energy currency of the cell. Along with that, blue light in the evening suppresses melatonin and disrupts circadian rhythms, which in turn affects sleep, hormone balance, and overnight cellular repair. And studies on animals reveal that blue light causes retinal damage. Eye damage is significant because half of the human brain is wired, either directly or indirectly, to process what it receives through the eyes. Stare too long at a device and, yes, your eyes are wrecked. Think about it. The notion that it was safe to rewire the light—swap out the bulb—in every home, school, office, street, and so on, and see absolutely no biological cost is absurd.
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Singing for Animals Compilation
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When there’s no sheep to herd.. 😅 https://t.co/R5XVpYZsZU
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above...
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. -James 1:17
All of God’s acts are consistent with all of His attributes. No attribute contradicts the other, but all harmonize and blend into each other in the infinite abyss of the Godhead. All that God does agrees with all that God is, and being and doing are one in Him.
-A.W. Tozer
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The Republic Stands Only as Long as Its Christian Foundation HoldsThe United States is a Christian nation that has always allowed the free practice of any religion. History is clear to anyone without an agenda. The people who wrote the founding documents, the state constitutions, and the early laws were overwhelmingly Christian. They built a system that refused to establish a national church while protecting the free exercise of faith. This was to protect the church from the state, not the state from the church.
The moment that Christian character is stripped away, the liberty that came with it does not remain as a free-floating secular gift. It erodes. Our adversaries understand this. That is why they work so hard to rewrite the founding, empty the public square of any Christian reference, and treat the original arrangement as an accident they have finally corrected.
Their latest effort comes from Colorado, which has become notorious for torturing religious communities by narrowing the practice of religion. Now, pre-schools are being targeted as the state attacks St. Mary Catholic Parish for including conventional Catholic teachings in its preschool classrooms and refusing to offer curriculum that includes irreligious content on marriage and sexuality. The $6,000 per child payment was stopped because the school maintained that if a non-Catholic child attended, he or she would be expected to participate in religious activities. Losing that benefit has likely caused a hardship for many families.
The Subtle Chemical Castration of the Western Male and Mass Migration The West should proceed carefully here. If we are simultaneously weakening the biological health of men and women, dismantling the cultural institutions that encourage family formation and then using mass immigration to compensate for the resulting demographic vacuum, we may be creating a feedback loop that eventually becomes impossible to reverse.
The figures have renewed scrutiny of New York’s sanctuary policies, which restrict cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
A 6-Year-Old Black Boy Shot His Teacher—The Bodycam Video Is WorseThis six-year-old should be a wakeup call. When we see a little boy who, through either instruction or osmosis, has such anti-social behavior problems, we need to recognize that he wasn’t born that way. He was indoctrinated by a culture that no longer even pretends to conform to the norms that made America so successful. That’s a problem. Not only for the child, his family and his community, but for America as well. Until that is dealt with, we’ll likely end up seeing more heartbreakingly maddening bodycam videos….
The data was revealed after local politicians from the hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party filed a parliamentary inquiry with the state government. Image
Raman, an immigrant from India, educated at Harvard and MIT, blessed with all the goodness that is America, has campaigned on grievance and gain at the expense of those who work for their money or own their property. She hates the West, the wise, the good, and the common-sensical. What Democratic Party apparatchiks have promised for decades, she will deliver: votes for non-citizens, single-payer healthcare, abolition of law enforcement, etc.
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The Muslim Student Association is Taking Over Texas Public High Schools Prayer rooms. Special accommodations. Invitations into Islam inside public buildings paid for by Texas taxpayers. And nothing is being done to stop it. Your children are the target. They are being invited to Islam inside your public schools. Imagine if Christians had the same dedicated rooms, the same scheduled prayer time, and the same institutional cover. It would be wall-to-wall national outrage. Instead, silence.
The researchers found that cannabis users “may place themselves in risky situations,” which could help explain the “increased vulnerability” to violence. Users may also be exposed to “peers who engage in substance use or criminal activities.”
The risk of violence was also more pronounced among psychiatric patients. Previous resarch has found that people who already suffer from pre-existing mental conditions such as psychosis may experience “poorer clinical outcomes” through continued cannabis use.
‘Compassionate’ drug policy is anything but — woke Canada shows us why In June, a group of academics with close links to Canada’s public-school systems created an agitprop document for kids as young as kindergartners emphasizing “anti-stigma” drug education (in other words, that it’s not OK to say using drugs is not OK).
In February, Health Minister Marjorie Michel dodged when asked if Canadian 16-year-olds are allowed to shoot up in a government-approved “safe injection” site; another official soon confirmed that yes, they certainly are.
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” -Mark 10:42-45
The Servant Messiah carries out his ministry in the lives of his ministers. His life is reproduced in their lives, so they also are servants. But this ministry is exercised in and towards the Church, so as to enable the Church itself to carry out the ministry of the Servant. The Messiah came as a Servant; his ministers are servants; and the Church he created is a Servant-Church. -Anthony T. Hanson
Iran has quietly resumed operations at a nuclear facility that was battered by Israel in March, with new satellite imagery showing “significant renewed activity” and even new construction.
The high-resolution images, released by the Institute for Science and International Security, show “unusually heavy” vehicle traffic and excavation work at the Minzadayi compound, a nuclear weapons site northeast of Tehran.
‘Privileged ingrates’ like Zohran Mamdani need to quit the genocide hypocrisyWhat was most surreal about the charges of “genocide” against Israel — along with all the other slurs of “settler-colonialism,” “apartheid,” “occupation,” “war crimes” — was that they so often came from elite first- and second-generation Middle Eastern immigrants to America.
Yet these prominent American accusers have remained silent about whether their lurid charges might far better reflect the sordid histories of their own homelands.
Take the Turkish-American anchor baby Hasan Piker, the millionaire podcaster who has dual citizenship and grew up in Turkey. -VD Hanson
When a genocidal terrorist group responsible for some of the worst atrocities in modern history celebrates the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, you know that the committee made the wrong choice.
We are, as Rubio warned, at a crossroads. Do we pursue excellence and take justified pride in the great things our civilization has accomplished? Or do we retreat to the tenebrous mediocrity and querulous ressentiment of the Last Man? C. S. Lewis drew a frightening portrait of “men without chests,” spiritually timid creatures who lack gumption (a plausible English equivalent of the Greek word θυμός). Marco Rubio, continuing in the president’s rhetorical footsteps, has called us to reaffirm the better, more spirited angels of our nature. I like to think that this rousing tocsin will help awaken a salutary and clear-eyed spiritual revival.
“Catholic and Christian health care providers, from hospitals and nursing homes to physicians, nurses, and therapists, strive to heal, not harm, and for generations, have cared for the sick and dying in keeping with their faith,” Breen said. He said the state has “no right or authority” to coerce them into helping patients kill themselves.
Proponents of MAID use words like “dignity” and “compassion” in its defense. But what about dignity in life? And true compassion for the living, via genuine care and treatment? In truth, MAID sounds like a cost-saving solution for the government, not care for its citizens.
A Christian teacher at a state school was fired after telling students that she was pro-life.
Anita Meston, a 63-year-old history teacher at Biddick Academy in Sunderland, was dismissed in March after a pupil asked her for her opinion on the abortion debate.
Hours later, Ms Meston was summoned to a meeting with the school’s headteacher, who admonished her for expressing personal views in the classroom and said that her contract would be terminated.
Cornell Handed out ‘Sex Ed‘ Materials Listing Every Behavior ImaginableCritics have blamed fraternity culture for the alleged gang rape of a female student at Cornell University, but it turns out the school’s own health department distributed sex education materials promoting campus-wide discussions of group sex, fetish practices and drug-fueled encounters.
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. -Acts 4:32-35 Image
Love—and the unity it attests to—is the mark Christ gave Christians to wear before the world. Only with this mark may the world know that Christians are indeed Christians and that Jesus was sent by the Father. -Francis A. Schaeffer
Hatred of the Jews by American political candidates for major positions is new.
For example, ABC4 News of Washington, D.C. reported last week: “Chants of ‘From the river to the sea’ were heard at recent Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America events featuring Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, as new polling shows most registered voters view the Democratic Socialists of America unfavorably.” Image
While introducing the resolution, Williams explained how Sharia is practiced in various Muslim-majority countries.
"Sharia, as practiced by governments around the world, is more than a private devotion. It operates as a complete political and legal order," he said. "Where states enforce it, the record speaks for itself. In Iran, women have been beaten in jail for uncovering their hair. In Pakistan, blasphemy laws have sent people to prison and stirred mobs against them on a single person's accusation."
Williams also discussed the treatment of women under some interpretations and applications of Sharia, saying a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man's, her inheritance is half that of her brothers, and her ability to work, marry or travel can depend on a male guardian.
"It's not American," Williams said. "Compare that with what we hold as Americans and Texans. Every person stands equal before the law."
Conservative student says he was threatened after pressing El-Sayed on Iran A conservative student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor says he received threats and harassment after questioning Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about his refusal to directly condemn Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iman Dashti, a Persian American student and member of College Republicans, described the threats in an Instagram video following a Sept. 23 town hall confrontation with El-Sayed.
Britain is heading towards blackouts because of its overreliance on renewables, says energy expert Richard Lyon, who explains how Britain's power grid works and why Net Zero is making it vulnerable to severe outages.
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The Nobel Peace Prize: An Exercise In Moral Depravity Nearly twenty years on, nothing has changed. The Nobel Committee just awarded this year’s prize to former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, an antisemitic, anti-American globalist and terrorist apologist. She has supported butchers such as Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, so long as his victims were the right color, and would have been only too happy to have seen people such as Irena Sendler fail in their efforts.