The Pilgrim Underground

Dispatches and Discernment From the Wilderness Way

29 February 2020

Belgium, Nuclear Weapons and the Breaking of Atlanticism

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/belgium-debates-phase-out-of-us-nuclear-weapons-on-its-soil/ In light of Trum...

The Death and Burial of Kemalism

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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Come-on-Children-Mosque-Project-marks-the-end-of-secular-Turkey-49050.html With the West's open oppos...
23 February 2020

The Iranian Collaborators: Constantine's Agents in the Realms of Shapur

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/iranian-christian-who-met-with-trump-details-how-regime-shut-down-her-familys-church.html Shapur II, ...
17 February 2020

Surveillance and the Facial Recognition Non-Scandal

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/hundreds-of-us-police-departments-using-dystopian-face-recognition-app-report/ It's a ...
15 February 2020

The Libyan Proxy War: Ankara and Athens set to Clash on the Shores of Tripoli

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https://news.yahoo.com/greece-aims-outflank-turkey-mediterranean-051925982.html https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/athe...
11 February 2020

Laos, OBOR and Media Bias

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https://journal-neo.org/2020/01/06/laos-wests-war-on-asian-development/ There's little doubt that Beijing has shifted gears and util...
09 February 2020

CBGM is Being More or Less Embraced

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https://www.fivesolas.church/archives/29930 The author's acknowledgement that all Christians need to consider the issue of textual c...
08 February 2020

A Very Wicked Syria Commentary

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https://www.christianpost.com/voice/christians-face-threats-throughout-syria-thanks-to-its-president.html I found this commentary to be ...
01 February 2020

Trump + 1107: The Real Scandal of 2016, Glenn Greenwald and the FBI

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https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/the-inspector-generals-report-on-2016-fb-i-spying-reveals-a-scandal-of-historic-magnitude-not-only-for-...
27 January 2020

Belarus on the Front Line

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/belarus-crowds-rally-against-closer-russia-ties-wave-eu-flags/ Were these marches fu...
25 January 2020

Trump and the Asian Pivot

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The US Navy has been doing something unusual, carrier swapping. Usually when one enters the Navy you more or less spend your career either...
24 January 2020

A White Helmeted Fog

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In November 2019, James Le Mesurier the founder of the White Helmets fell to his death from a balcony in Istanbul. With good reason, many ...
19 January 2020

The Dust is Still Settling from the Years of Lead

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http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/01/09/former-terrorist-gets-life-for-1980-bologna-bombing_6d16ec5c-a46d-4cd6-88dc-b126ff3c186b.html ...
18 January 2020

Citizenship and Travel in the Coming Dystopia

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https://www.politico.eu/article/future-passports-biometric-risk-profiles-the-codes-we-carry/ Is it the Mark of the Beast? Actually no, b...
16 January 2020

The Click-Bait and Spin Machines of the Christian Right

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https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/01/10/not-a-single-democratic-senator-supports-u-s-military/ Pulpit and Pen wants so badly to be taken ser...
13 January 2020

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is Still Apostate

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There has been extensive coverage in Christian circles with regard to the proposed split of the United Methodist Church. Many Evangelical ...
11 January 2020

The Downed 737 in Tehran

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The downing of a Ukrainian 737 over Tehran was a tragedy with well over one hundred lives lost. It took place amid the confusion and angst...
09 January 2020

VCY-CrossTalk Chaos

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Here's the summary for the 9 January 2020 radio show: Jim finished yesterday’s Crosstalk by reading  Psalm 20:7: ‘Some trust in ch...
04 January 2020

Trump +1079: Military Schisms, the Legality of Assassination and Iran

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There's been something of a military schism at work within the Trump administration. For some time it's been an open secret that t...
02 January 2020

The Soleimani Assassination

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There will be wars and rumours of wars. A good thing to remember at a tense moment like this. And yet one hopes that Soleimani isn't...
01 January 2020

Incirlik AFB Under Question

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/turkey-warns-it-could-kick-out-us-from-incirlik-nuclear-base/ Incirlik Air Fo...
31 December 2019

Money and the Hong Kong Protests

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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hong-Kong-police-seizes-70-million-dollars-in-donations-for-democratic-movement-48868.html This is the ot...
30 December 2019

The Polish Judiciary, the EU and the Threat of Polexit

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/poland-could-end-up-leaving-the-eu-supreme-court-warns/ https://www.dw.com/en...
29 December 2019

NPR's Reporting on the Space Force

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https://www.npr.org/2019/12/26/791414989/the-reasons-for-a-space-force I don't listen to NPR a lot these days but I did catch this r...
28 December 2019

Inbox: What can the Uighurs do?

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Given the magnitude of the Chinese clampdown in the Xinjiang region, the Uighur people face unimaginable pressure to abandon their culture...
26 December 2019

Anti-Sodomite Vigilantism in Brazil

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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-brazil-violence-christmas/brazilian-comedy-group-hit-by-molotov-cocktails-after-film-on-gay-jesus-idUKKB...
25 December 2019

Trump +1069: Impeachment and the Christianity Today Editorial (Part 2)

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The state of things in the Evangelical world was already confusing and the events surrounding 2016 has only amplified this reality. Once n...

Trump +1069: Impeachment and the Christianity Today Editorial (Part 1)

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It was something of a bombshell when news broke that Christianity Today , long the flagship magazine of the Evangelical movement proclaime...
24 December 2019

Libya and the Escalating Mediterranean Conflict

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/turkey-raises-prospect-to-send-troops-to-libya/ The rift continues to deepen between...
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23 December 2019

Nord Stream 2 Sanctions

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The US has introduced sanctions on companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project which brings gas from Russia directly into Ger...
22 December 2019

CTE, the Ecumenical Movement and the Sodomite Breaking Point

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https://www.christiantoday.com/article/churches-together-in-england-rejects-gay-president-nomination/133643.htm Churches Together in Eng...
20 December 2019

Reflections on the Hallmark Channel Controversy

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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/dec/15/hallmark-channel-embroiled-in-controversy-after/ In the end, it's all about the money. If Hall...
19 December 2019

Movement and Summits in Central Asia: The EU Alternative

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/central-asia/news/central-asia-leaders-meet-again-in-sign-of-increased-regional-cooperation/ These rece...
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17 December 2019

Dominionist-Fueled Violence in Brazil

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/soldiers-of-jesus-armed-neo-pentecostals-torment-brazils-religious-minorities/2019/12/08...
16 December 2019

The NATO Summit, Energy Policy and TANAP

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/azerbaijan/news/turkey-and-azerbaijan-mark-completion-of-tanap-pipeline-to-take-gas-to-europe/ The Tran...
15 December 2019

Paul Washer's Shocking Sermon

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8 https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=52906154239 I believe Paul Washer to be a g...
12 December 2019

Lausanne and the Evangelical Undermining of Sola Scriptura: Watering Down the Word

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http://evangelicalfocus.com/magazine/4929/Bezalel_and_Oholiab_Artists_and_craftsmen This article is not unique. In fact there are dozens...
11 December 2019

The Malta Scandal, Energy Deals and Azerbaijan

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One aspect to the scandal surrounding the car-bombing death of journalist Daphne Galizia that has not been focused on, at least not so far...
10 December 2019

The NHS and US-UK Trade: Spinning the Revelations

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50699168 On the one hand I'm a little baffled by the 'breaking' nature of this story because the...
09 December 2019

The Ethos of New Calvinism and Christmas

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https://www.challies.com/visual-theology/a-visual-theology-advent-reading-calendar-for-your-family/ The celebration of Advent used to ra...
08 December 2019

Trump Messianism and Slippery Speech

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-labels-trump-opposition-demonic-rick-perry-labels-trump-chosen-one.html I seem to rec...
07 December 2019

German Militarism and the Rise of Von der Leyen

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https://thedefensepost.com/2019/11/27/germany-new-runway-niamey-niger-c-160/ I'm afraid the picture for this article caught my eye. ...
05 December 2019

The Spirit of Capitulation in Evangelicalism With Regard to Sunday

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https://www.christianpost.com/voice/the-biggest-demographic-churches-are-missing.html Evangelical leaders continue to produce theology w...
03 December 2019

Multi-Generational Nightmare Weapons

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https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/iraq-children-birth-defects-military/ Though largely discredited in my eyes, I still glance at The I...
01 December 2019

Georgian Orthodoxy and Cold War II

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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Tbilisi,-scandals-and-divisions-in-the-Church-and-between-parties-48570.html Georgia's Orthodox Patri...
30 November 2019

ISIS Scatters to the Four Winds... And to Central Asia

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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Seventeen-die-in-Islamic-State-attack-on-border-checkpoint-48474.html This has long been the fear, that i...
28 November 2019

A Moment of Cultural Examination in Italy

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http://www.ansa.it/english/news/business/2019/11/18/only-57-of-italian-mums-work-istat_6095acfc-0148-4de5-8310-b388510a8208.html The ANS...
26 November 2019

Frontline's In the Age of AI

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I recently watched the PBS Frontline documentary on AI or Artificial Intelligence. I recommend it but with qualification. It was both inte...
24 November 2019

Logic on Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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I had been waiting with some anticipation for a few years to view the Lloyd-Jones film Logic on Fire and after viewing it I must say I wa...
21 November 2019

Macron, Aachen and the Ghost of de Gaulle

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/frances-macron-decries-nato-brain-death-ahead-of-anniversary/ Already there a...
19 November 2019

Buying Czech Loyalty: Rewarding the V4

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https://thedefensepost.com/2019/11/12/czech-republic-purchase-uh-1y-ah-1z-helicopters-textron/ It is with veritable glee that the Americ...
17 November 2019

Hungary, the UK and the Politics of Huawei

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/5g/news/hungarys-emergency-infrastructure-hardware-built-by-huawei/ Washington is not pleased that Buda...
11 November 2019

AFR: Blind Guides of the American Evangelical Movement

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A couple of weeks ago I was driving about an hour south of where I live and picked up American Family Radio (AFR). As bad as the Family Li...
07 November 2019

Pompeo's Sacrilege

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/pompeo-faces-criticism-for-giving-speech-being-christian-leader.html Pompeo should fill all Christian...
05 November 2019

Mayer's Credibility on the Line

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https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/08/the-new-yorkers-partisan-attempt-to-refute-its-claim-of-partisan-disinformation-on-biden-and-ukraine...
03 November 2019

Training the Satraps

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https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2019/10/14/Singapore-air-force-celebrates-10-years-of-training-at-Idaho-air-base/4981571077607/?sl=9 Fe...

Self-Affirmation Confused With the Will of God

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/in-n-out-billionaire-lynsi-snyder-on-spiritual-warfare-desire-to-be-plugged-in-to-gods-plan.html But ...
01 November 2019

European Drama: Aachen versus Brussels?

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/france-halts-eu-enlargement/ France has halted the process to enlarge the EU even as B...
30 October 2019

IOR Obstruction

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http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2019/10/02/five-vatican-officials-suspended-over-finance-probe_04a93a47-8048-4861-899a-d8636bb79436.html ...
27 October 2019

The Lausanne Legacy: Danish Evangelicals Seek Political Influence

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http://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/4821/God_is_at_work_with_politicians_and_culturally_engaged_people This is yet another example of the...
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