https://julieroys.com/how-battle-christian-nationalism-often-starts-with-homeschooling/
This is the kind of frustrating article that has almost
become the norm. Everything about it is off. We are thankful that our kids are
all past the time of schooling but some of the anxieties and fears being raised
today were with us twenty years ago when we started. These tensions are not
new. They've just gotten worse.
In 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) released a statement on moral character and public officials. Many will recall this was at the height of tensions between the Clinton administration and the GOP. The Culture Wars were raging and many Evangelicals were in a state of apoplectic rage, convinced that Clinton was a communist determined to bring America down. They and their allies were doing all they could to combat his administration.
Anthony Cordesman has received some unsought coverage lately for comments he made on the war in Ukraine. This along with a thirty year old paper I discovered, provide substantial and significant reasons to question key points of the media narrative surrounding the war.
This article doesn't reveal anything that I haven't already
read in numerous books and articles that have appeared over the past twenty
years. Every few years reports emerge of some new conference or gathering that
reveals the direction that these political movements are headed. They represent
the nexus of Christian-Right activism, academia, and the political order. It's always
changing but always the same.
There are a few noteworthy exceptions and points worth
highlighting in the case of this article.
In contrast to the claims made in the article, one could wish
that anything associated with Billy Graham and his legacy actually involved a
clear gospel presentation. Instead, what the audience received was undoubtedly the
Finneyite Altar Call message – the cheap grace gospel of the Evangelical
movement and it's affirmation of worldliness in the form of watered down faith,
tepid repentance, and its Dominionist imperative.
Croatia was quick to sign up to America's suggestion of
creating an LNG infrastructure, and now in this new deal with Austria and
Bavaria, that capacity is set to double. Croatia is set to become an energy hub
for southern and central Europe as LNG can be brought in via the Adriatic.
Have you noticed the shift in coverage regarding China? For months Western media outlets have voiced criticism regarding Beijing's Zero-Covid policy. They referred to it as draconian and despite the fact that only a few thousand people have died within a country over a billion people – as ineffective.
It seems that about every other military and weapons story is
related to drone development. As many things in the world are changing, so is
the way of waging war.
And a follow-up:
I've had these links in my backlog for a few months now. The
stories appeared on the same day. The combined reporting could be described as
both lies and attacking liars – covering up and exposing at the same time. It's
enough to make your head spin.
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/finland-and-germany-starting-lng-imports
It has been nothing less than impressive to witness the rapid
development of this new LNG infrastructure. No doubt everything has been
categorized as a 'rush order'. And even with the red hot production
time-tables, their coming 'on line' isn't soon enough as ships are already piling
up in the Atlantic and we read of other nations eager to export LNG – and get a
piece of the lucrative European market and its high demand.
God be praised, we've made more progress. After just about fifteen weeks in a brace, my son is finally getting to take it off. Not all at once of course, but we've started the process of weaning him from it. He has a new lease on life. He's able to lie on his side in bed and yes, take a shower. Needless to say he's in good spirits.
https://julieroys.com/ohio-church-refuses-embrace-partisan-politics-shrinks/
The article was good and even refreshing to a degree, but it
was not elaborated enough. It felt like there should have been a lot more
explanation as to why these positions (what some take to be non-positions) are
taken.
The confusion is demonstrated in the comments after the
article.
If you read the article carefully, the argument can be made
that the headline is guilty of sensationalism. America is clearly in the
position of supremacy but that margin of domination is not what it was thirty
years ago. This I think is probably self-evident and hardly surprising to
anyone.
