https://twitter.com/tmwall/status/1016661381657997312
«“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
— Plato quoting Socrates
Kids have been ruining society since society.»
A collection of articles on racism and the pro-life movement, not all of which I have read. I need to come back and read these later. (I have now read them. Recommended.)
Update: BJU got its tax-exempt status back: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/education/2017/02/16/bju-regains-nonprofit-status-17-years-after-dropped-discriminatory-policy/98009170/
I feel like this is a big deal. I remember hearing about this on NPR years ago.
(Wealth, status, and family name or surname.)
https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1008922177641635841
«Here it is. The ransom note. Give him the Wall and the kids go free. Never in our lifetimes has there been more despicable leadership of our country. This is truly vile.
@NBCNewsBREAKING: AG Sessions on Trump admin. policy of separating migrant families at US border: “If we build a wall, we pass some legislation, we close some loopholes, we won’t face these terrible choices.” https://nbcnews.to/2t5uPc0 »
Time to resurface this (and pin it).
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/
«This, then, is the article we thought we would never write: a frank statement that a certain form of partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy. The problem is not just Donald Trump; it’s the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him.»
So many people seem ready to quote Leviticus but so few seem familiar with Acts 15.
Or Galatians 5-6.
Wow. Every life needs poetry.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/21/17028930/gun-violence-us-statistics-charts
Headline on Vox: “I’ve covered gun violence for years. The solutions aren’t a big mystery.”
«“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”»
(https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mat%207%3A13-14&version=NRSV;CEB)
NOBODY wants to hear this; and we start making all kinds of excuses to slip off the hook. (Yes, me, too.)
(Finally looked this up. Yay search function on e-Bible.)
Here, Read This 