Russell Moore are you going to tweet about the tech companies action against Parler as an issue of crony capitalism and freedom? I thought your tweets against the capital invasion were very good. This seems big too. I want all the fair minded folks in my church to respect you.

I always come back to these two when I think of ideologically divided believers finding communion in the pursuit of the truth: youtube.com/watch?v=XNDQj8…

Many people that come in for counseling aren't suffering from an identifiable pathology, their live has reached an unmanageable level of complexity. - J. P.

From a very reasonable pastor friend's newsletter this week: "FWIW: After months of delay, denial and avoidance, this week I started a file labeled Censorship." First time in my lifetime this seems eminently reasonable.

Should Christians practice 'centering prayer'? In my view, silence before God is better than nervous speech or parrot talk. Taking time to quiet the heart and mind can be beneficial, but is not obligatory.

The more you study Marxism, the more you realize it is a giant con job to gaslight the free West into committing suicide while whitewashing the murderous policies of many of history’s most evil overlords. Marxism is the doctrine of demons. It is nihilism with a fancier glossary.

Remember this when you're working really hard on something that can't wait- chronically. Pay spec attention to second clause... Exodus 34:21 "Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

We can’t allow cable news to dictate our prayer lists. Get a globe and start praying! The Holy Ghost will guide…with compassion.

I keep wanting to say to people, "lets go back to what I actually said, not what your feelings told you I must have meant." So far, I have kept it in my little mind. But sometimes...it's close.

twitter suspends Babylon bee for satire that offends woke doctrine. youtube.com/watch?v=odcEu7…

Roland Fryer (Harvard, Econ) has been "banned from interacting w/ grad students, subjected to Title IX surveillance, & demoted to teaching undergrads. Hard not to conclude that Harvard is more concerned with protecting its ideological codes than with the future of black America."

A material difference. I know this is not the only externality of Dobbs, but it is an important on. I think the most important. wng.org/opinions/dobbs…

Club Q shooting note: evangelical faith does, or should, abominate such murders even if nightclub behavior is not approved in our sexual ethic. Our doctrine of humanity precedes our doctrine of sin. Also: our faith affirms using a concealed weapon on the perpetrator.

53% of one helping profession has had trouble finding staff. They say it is because of what they can pay relative to inflation. Inflation over 3% will decrease the number of people that can make a middle class living in helping professions. This Makes a real difference for many.

A younger person to me once: "My generation likes things. We don't join institutions." Me (trying to be and sound kind): "Then your generation will get to not accomplish things." Fact: committed, ordered voluntary cooperation is how humans accomplish most hard things. join stuff.

Affinity and momentum without institution can't last. Whitfield, the greatest pop phenomenon in American history referred to his work later as a "rope of sand" because it had no committed, ordered, even hierarchical structure- no institution. Join something that should last.

"The greatest danger to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Brandeis.

Fear of the Lord in leaders leads to praise of the Lord in the people. Nehemiah 5. When people in power CAN commit injustice, what reliably inhibits corruption and risks reform? See also Matt 25.

Good article on counting religious extremism on the Right patheos.com/blogs/anxiousb…