In a Shoreham Garden c1830 #SamuelPalmer

Surrogacy is yet another form of exploitation of women and children.

One of the reasons, I fear, that creatives can often be overlooked in the church is that they don’t serve as a needed commodity for a system that can too easily be inclined toward power and monetization. A creative isn’t interested in adding to the bottom line. They seek to…

'What started out as a necessary call to replace nominal Christianity with a genuine conversion experience has devolved over time to marketing--not sharing the good news but selling it.'
~'The Evangelical Imagination,' p. 54, Dr. Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP at The Priory) )

I long for the demise of culture warriors and the return of prayer warriors.

We agree with the need for affordable childcare. Yet, Rep Josh Gottheimer is trying to shut down a facility that supports pregnant women and provides 'FREE' childcare so moms can complete their education or go to work so they can support their families. And he refuses to learn more.

The God of heaven and earth is a God who loves beauty. —R.C. Sproul

You know, I really don't mind cultural Christianity. I mind that most of it isn't Christian.

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Happiness!

While Rep Josh Gottheimer was afraid to enter the pregnancy center in his district, I bravely went in. This is what I found. Free resources & support for his constituents. He wants to close down the centers that give away free resources because he thinks they are fake clinics.

'Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.'
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

I pray I live to see a return to discipleship & less focus on leadership. But, as long as the outcome is success & not faithfulness the return won’t happen.

This team is just incredibly fun!!

I'm no expert and I don't have a degree in Sociology, but pehaps raising an entire generation to believe that everything they think, do, and say is uniquely and deeply important, and *any* challenge is grossly unfair was not the best strategy to build strong, healthy individuals.

We all remember the horrific scenes in Charlottesville 7 years ago of neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us”.

The Columbia students shouting “Go back to Poland!” and “burn Tel Aviv to the ground” share the same hateful message: Jews are not welcome.

'You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; & to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.' Eph. 4:22-24

The Woke Left and Woke Right are in a competition to see which side can bother me more. And currently, they're both winning.

'The Dancing Class,' 1870
Edward Degas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oil painting on wood

Rachel Joy Welcher again bringing us delight.