Yesterday Russia announced a revised military doctrine, signed by President Vladimir Putin, that names NATO as the Kremlin’s main adversary and clarifies that Russia’s military reserves…
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Evangelicals in the Hands of an Angry God: 8 Theses | Eric Scot English
Conservative evangelicals have failed to live up to the ideal of the reformation to “always be reforming” and as a result exists in an echo chamber of their own making. “Ecclesia Semper Reformanda est” or “The Church should always be reformed” was a popular axiom proclaimed by Augustine and then again later by Karl Barth. It’s a phrase that goes directly to the problem in conservative evangelicalism that it refuses to accept criticism both externally and internally. More times than not conservative evangelicalism sees any criticism as an attack and, therefore, dig their heels in to hold their position instead of humbly considering whether the criticism has any validity.
Source: Evangelicals in the Hands of an Angry God: 8 Theses | Eric Scot English
EXCLUSIVE: MacArthur Shamed, Excommunicated Wife of Child Abuser (who is now doing 21 years in Jail)
According to MacArthur, Gray’s sin was that she had decided “to leave her husband, to grant no grace at all, to take the children, to go away, to forsake him.” This, MacArthur emphasized, meant rejecting “all the instruction and counsel of the elders, all instruction from the Word of God.”MacArthur then encouraged the church to pray for Eileen and to “treat her as an unbeliever—for all we know, she may be.”
Source: EXCLUSIVE: MacArthur Shamed, Excommunicated Wife of Child Abuser
Historian Heather Cox Richardson interviews President Joe Biden February 25, 2022 – YouTube
Let’s talk about fallout from the unthinkable…. – YouTube
Captured Russian occupiers deeply regrets coming to Ukraine (subtitles) – YouTube
War in Europe – Drama in Ukraine (2/2) | DW Documentary – YouTube
February 25, 2022 – by Heather Cox Richardson
This was a historic day in a historic week. This afternoon, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the Supreme Court. “For too long, our government, our courts haven’t looked like America,” Biden said in a speech introducing Jackson. “I believe it’s time that we have a court that reflects the full talents and greatness of our nation with a nominee of extraordinary qualifications, and that we inspire all young people to believe that they can one day serve their country at the highest level.”
Banging a cast iron skillet with a big spoon…
I’m starting this because I was put in Facebook jail for 24 hours after taking on a Trump supporting Putin apologizer, by highlighting what the Ukrainian ambassador said to the Russian Ambassador at the United Nations. “There is no purgatory for war criminals, they go straight to hell, Ambassador.” And then as now I’m quoting from memory. Admittedly, I may have suggested the same end for the misguided apologizer. As I write this hell has landed upon the Ukrainian people, a functioning Democracy the size of Texas, and I’ve not ever been to, nor do I know any Ukrainian people. I do know it was a part of Russia for a long time, I do know while they have different languages it is similar like Norwegian and Swedish, I know through planned starvation and executions Russia as the Soviet Union killed as many as 7 million people during the Stalin era in Ukraine. I know it was where Chernobyl is. I watched the Maidan Revolution in 2014 as it played out on YouTube. I know they revolted over having a Russian puppet installed as the ruler to do the bidding of Vladimir Putin and his Russian kleptocratic oligarchs. I know now it took him eight years to decide to get even and attempt again to establish an authoritarian anti-democratic despotic regime to do Russia’s bidding; and doing so with the tools of war and the current ongoing blood bath. I know the west is helpless to help the plight of the Ukrainian people with direct military aid meaning boots on the ground troops coming to their defense. This can’t be done because the Ukrainians were not in club NATO despite the fact they asked to join. The valiant Ukrainians will fight for their lives and their Democracy. I also know that there are those in this country in high places of media influence and politics that are championing Putin’s aggression, genocide, and lies. Those same people championed Trumps aggression, genocide, and lies.
Five takeaways from the Report on Christian Nationalism and January 6 – Baptist News Global
On Feb. 9, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, in tandem with their movement “Christians Against Christian Nationalism” and in partnership with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, held a livestreamed event that introduced their new comprehensive report on the influence of Christian nationalism in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. After some introductory chapters on Christian nationalism itself, the report describes, in stunning detail, the central role Christian imagery and personal influencers played that day and in the lead-up to it. The images and firsthand accounts leave no doubt that the presence of this distorted, militant version of Christianity was not just present in the crowd but was front and center — literally — in many events and online forums for two months after the Nov. 3, 2020, election, up to and including Jan. 6.
Source: Five takeaways from the Report on Christian Nationalism and January 6 – Baptist News Global
St. John One: One 