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Posts by James Ross Kelly

James Ross Kelly lives in Northern California next to the Sacramento River. Mr. Kelly was a long-time resident of Southern Oregon where he grew up. And the Fires We Talked About published by Uncollected Press in 2020 is Mr. Kelly’s first book of fiction. In 2024 Mr. Kelly published his third book, "Above Neil Rock," a memoir.

“He Will Face Justice”: Steve Schmidt says MAGA’s Bannon in Legal Peril – YouTube


“We have a large segment of the country that has opted out of reality and the numbers too high, and we have to deal with the problem and get as many of them back to the reality side of the line over time. But right now a majority of the country is in fact not insane and we watched it play out, we watched Trump incite it, we watched Trump lie about the results of the election, we watched Republicans after it– condemn it–before they forgot it, and before they became complicit in the white washing, I mean what you saw was a fascist mob replete with extremist groups– storm and murder in the Capital of the United States– defecating in the hallways of the temples of democracy–urinating on the walls, carrying the confederate flag through  the rotunda,  ending [this country’s history of] the  peaceful transition of power — we now know  that there was a plan,  there is a memo, there were meetings in  the oval office around that memo: for the American president to deny the result of  the freest and fairest election in  American history and try to become a  dictator. That’s what happened. It couldn’t be more serious.”

Steve Schmidt

The Mark Of The Beast: Revealed! | Keith Giles


When it comes to the book of Revelation there are ultimately two camps: Futurists (who believe the book tells us something about future events that have […]

Source: The Mark Of The Beast: Revealed! | Keith Giles

Should Christians Dump Darwin? | Ted Peters


Should Christians dump Darwin? No. There is no war between faith and science, but the Christian faith is still losing. Here’s why. Science is intelligible. Faith is not intelligible. The puddles surrounding faith’s relation to science are muddy. Or so it appears. Let’s see if we can clear up some mud.

Source: Should Christians Dump Darwin? | Ted Peters

October 11, 2021 – by Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American


Journalist Will Bunch wrote: “The future of American democracy depends, frankly, on whether journalists stop burying their head in ‘the work’ of balanced-but-misleading reporting and admit that, yes, actually, we are at war.”

Source: October 11, 2021 – by Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American

The Ultimate Signs You Got Your “Biblical” Worldview From Fox News | Benjamin L. Corey


As Christians we’re called to be in the world but not “of the world” yet that’s easier said than done. With a million facets of culture surrounding us, […]

Source: The Ultimate Signs You Got Your “Biblical” Worldview From Fox News | Benjamin L. Corey

Noah and his Children: Bad News for White Evangelical Christians | Vance Morgan


By establishing an unholy alliance with people and values entirely contrary to what they claim their own moral and religious commitments to be, white evangelicalism has shown itself to be an emperor with no clothes.

Source: Noah and his Children: Bad News for White Evangelical Christians | Vance Morgan

3 Attitudes Are Killing American Churches | C. Don Jones


The churches are not coming apart and failing because of beliefs. It is happening because of certain attitudes among believers. I have spent most of my […]

Source: 3 Attitudes Are Killing American Churches | C. Don Jones

76 Bible Verses to Support Universal Reconciliation | Keith Giles


For those who doubt that the Bible teaches that all shall be saved, here are 76 verses that do exactly that.

Source: 76 Bible Verses To Support Universal Reconciliation | Keith Giles

The Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism – Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture


The fracturing we are experiencing is likely to be irrevocable as the historical ties that bind have eroded beyond repair. The reality is that while many in the evangelical movement thought their bonds were primarily (or exclusively) theological or missional, many of those bonds were actually political, cultural, and socioeconomic. These political, cultural, and socioeconomic differences have always been there beneath the water line but what has occurred over the last 5-10 years has been the extent to which those values are expressed has been exposed. With the expression louder and the exposing more visible, these divergent values have rapidly created substantive wedges between various subgroups. The rate at which divergent views have been revealed has created jarring relational dissonance. People in the pews are left questioning the extent to which their unity is based on the Apostles or Nicene creeds or other political, cultural, and socioeconomic matters. They are left questioning where churches, ministries, or organizations land on these things. The tectonic plates are shifting underfoot. This fracturing will likely be irrevocable not because our Gospel essentials are not unifying enough but because the divergence of ethical priorities, cultural engagement, racial attitudes, political visions/illusions, and their implications for philosophy of ministry mean that unity is fundamentally no longer tenable.

Source: The Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism – Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture