Friday, December 26, 2025

When the song of the angels is stilled...

When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among people,
To make music in the heart.
-Howard Thurman

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The most important thing to remember is that Trump’s work is intended to make life better for the people living legally in the U.S. “The benefit to the United States is that certain illegal aliens who are committing crimes and causing problems in American communities will no longer be living here,” says Vaughan. “American taxpayers will have less of a burden funding welfare, health care, and schooling for recent arrivals, and employers who were previously hiring illegal workers will have to start hiring U.S. workers. All of this is helpful to the quality of life and wage growth for struggling Americans.”



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Leaving Islam for Christianity: One man’s message for Minnesotans about Democrats, Muslims  Christians face persecution in Iran, but Faridi soon became a part of an “underground” Christian church.
   “I distributed Bibles, CDs, and other things and I was threatened many times,” he recalled.
   However, Faridi had to make a life-altering decision: “go to the prison” or “get out of the prison of the Islamic regime of Iran, which is the whole country,” he said.
   “So I left Iran, and miraculously, I ended up in America,” Faridi said.

MERRY CHRISTMAS: Holiday ‘Tips’ from the Religion of Peace While Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, here’s what top Islamic clerics really think:
“Saying Merry Christmas is Worse than Murder”
“…it is saying congratulations on your false religion. Congratulations on your false understanding of life. This is worse than fornication, drinking alcohol, and killing someone.”
“Christmas is offensive to Muslims, and anyone who celebrates it is Islamophobic.”

Islam is a brutally misogynistic, brutally homophobic, brutally xenophobic, supremacist political ideology, pretending to be a religion. And it needs to be viewed that way by Western civilization. No matter how peaceful most Muslims seem, eventually a charismatic leader will come along who will radicalize them, for his own aggrandizement. That’s what’s going on right now in Iran.

India: Christians beaten, held hostage and Bibles set on fire in brutal attack by Hindu extremists  “They were slapping the Christian women, pulling their hair, punching them. The scene was terrible,” said Arya. “The Hindu men were assaulting the Christian men likewise.”

Muslims Block Christians from Celebrating Christmas in Indonesia  Consequently, the Muslims who were blocking the door to the church likely thought of themselves as committing a righteous act, allowing Allah to use them to punish the wayward Christians. And punish they did: “The Muslims held back and pushed members of the church as they struggled to make their way to prayer post for Christmas services.”

Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens What’s interesting about the international prayers in the pope’s message is that the nations and territories that he mentions, “Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria”, “Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo”, Haiti, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Yemen, Gaza, are mostly non-Christian. Apart from Haiti and Congo, they’re non-Christians areas.

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New York Won’t Give Up Its Efforts to House Men in Women’s Prisons  Other egregious elements remain in the bill, including that denials cannot be based on the realities of biological sex (including “past or current … chromosomes, genitals, gonads … or hormone function”), or based on sexual orientation, or the “complaints of other incarcerated individuals” (a/k/a women). Additionally, it is prohibited to transfer an inmate out of a “gender-aligned placement as a form of discipline.” This means that a male inmate who verbally harasses female inmates, or engages in voyeurism or exhibitionism directed towards them, cannot be transferred out of the women’s facility in response to this conduct, unless the conduct rises to the level of “current danger of … violence” as described below.

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In 2025, merit-based policies made notable gains across higher education.
After years of test-optional admissions and expansive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates, colleges and universities began reversing course in response to pushback from lawmakers and students who argued that academic standards had been weakened.

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I never thought much about the religious aspect of this film when I turned to it again and again throughout my life to ground me in what really matters. That is the struggle of George Bailey, who wants greatness for himself. He wants to leave Bedford Falls and see the world. One by one, his dreams are dashed as he must give them up for whatever reason - the war, the stock market crash, and finally, marriage and family.

A Very Merry Tradition- The Fascinating Story of A Charlie Brown Christmas  This rush to duplicate the success of A Charlie Brown Christmas ushered in the tradition of the annual broadcasting of half-hour Christmas specials that would last for decades. For those Gen Xers and Millennials who grew up with broadcast television, these shows became unofficial markers of the start of the Christmas season. 

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Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom Destroys Actual Intelligence In Students  A recent MIT study shows that AI usage decreases cognitive function like critical thinking. Seems rather odd to insist that something proven to weaken our brains should be introduced to places where institutions of learning, isn’t it?

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Drag Churches and the Forced Redefinition of the Sacred Drag churches are presented by their defenders as examples of “evolution” and “openness.” However, from a critical perspective, they reflect a broader trend of cultural progressivism: redefining millennia-old institutions to fit a contemporary ideological agenda, even when that means exposing minors to messages for which they are not prepared. This is not dialogue; it is replacement. It is not coexistence; it is disguised indoctrination.

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