Practically speaking, a cleric-centered ministry is severly limited, given the global scope of the Great Commission. Historically and doctrinally speaking, a cleric-centered ministry is not Reformed. https://t.co/jL6C3hNHgk

“Debate over when a shipwrecked crew member loses protection from attack misses the point,” said Geoffrey S. Corn, who was formerly the Army’s senior adviser for law-of-war issues. “The real problem here is the dubious and legally overbroad assertion that the United States is

Sen. Rand Paul: "If they're armed, show us that they're armed. If they're not armed, explain to us why we k*ll people who are not armed!" https://t.co/MdrT3B0BWY

As he can be counted on to do, @GeorgeWill has said the necessary. He is a conservative -- the real McCoy -- in an age of statists and dolts.

Herman Bavinck: "The Catholic ‘righteousness by good works’ is vastly preferable to a protestant ‘righteousness by good doctrine.’ At least righteousness by good works benefits one’s neighbor, whereas righteousness by good doctrine only produces lovelessness and pride."

Devastating @wsj report on the real Trump-Russia deal: betray Ukraine in exchange for privileged business benefits for Trump insiders. https://t.co/QeVkvwyeZt

Former US military lawyers speak out "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both" Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

Advent marks the beginning of the liturgical year. It’s the start of a new year for the Christian. It reminds us that things are put into motion when God comes. Even so, Come, Lord Jesus.

Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt have given their fellow citizens the fruit of their exhaustive research and excellent storytelling skills. Highly recommended! https://t.co/UtBP6F4dYp

"In a grateful community, individuals and their contributions are acknowledged and honored, and there is regular testimony to God’s faithfulness, through which the community experiences the joys of its members." — Christine D. Pohl

Just as the Word about God’s love for the world was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn 1:14), so too those who abide in His Word are an embodied message of God’s love to each other, their neighbors, the immigrant, the dispossessed, the sick, the elderly, the widow and the orphan.

Peter Thiel wants us to be terrified of this man and not his Palantir project. It’s total nonsense.

When the oppressive structures have been erected by professed Christians and even claim the personal sanction of Christ, the preacher of redemption must inevitably become a preacher of political liberation, not least because of the tendency of power to corrupt all who hold it,

Reuters confirms that President Trump’s son and his special envoy met in private with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy in Miami to help draft the new “peace plan” for Ukraine. This leaves the administration wide open to serious counterintelligence and influence-risk concerns.

Please read this thread. The administration is fundamentally dishonest.

Give Jonathan Haidt the Presidential Medal of Freedom ASAP. This brave scholar is prophetically trying to save America’s kids from smartphones, if parents are willing to listen. Sadly, that’s is a very big “if.” What have we done to our kids?

Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.

Dr. Walter Strickland pushes back against the myth that Christianity was born in the West. From the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts to African Church Fathers like Tertullian and Augustine — Africa has always been part of the story. 📺 Clip from the Tuskegee University stop of Jude 3's

Went to see Nuremberg--a sobering reminder that those who were tried and convicted of war crimes were not insane. They knowingly and willingly participated. Sin & evil are human problems, not alien. They are not only against God, they destroy human community and deform the self.

Charles Hodge, in his commentary on Romans 16:1 calls Phoebe a deaconess.

Charles Hodge: We must acknowledge the Presbyterian Church in this country is not the church for the poor. We, as a church, are not doing, and never have done, what we were bound to do, in order to secure the preaching of the gospel to the poor. The evil is our system.