Aaron Armstrong

It's official: "Faith Simplified" releases today. This book invites the curious and questioning to explore the truths that define Christianity alongside someone who has been in their shoes. Get it for 40% off at @Christianbook for a limited time! christianbook.com/faith-simplifi…

Awaiting a Savior: The Gospel, the New Creation and the End of Poverty, by Aaron Armstrong.⁠ @AaronStrongarm ⁠ amzn.to/3RFYmDU

Even as we are responsible for pursuing biblical solutions to poverty, our hope for truly resolving it comes not from the good we do, but from the return of Christ. @AaronStrongarm amzn.to/3RFYmDU

Sometimes we look God's characteristics—like love and holiness—and treat them as if they're in competition or in conflict. But that's not the way we're meant to understand what God is like. aaronarmstrong.co/holiness-love-…

@SecWar @DeptWar I'm sure Harvard will be glad to revoke your degree.

File this under: LONG OVERDUE The @DeptWar is formally ending ALL Professional Military Education, fellowships, and certificate programs with Harvard University. Harvard is woke; The War Department is not.

@JDVance I mean, you have been speaking to the media a great deal over the last 24 hours, so that tracks.

I've seen a lot of dishonest coverage from the media during my time in politics, but the last 24 hours may have set a new low.

@SecWar It’s not sedition to remind military personnel of the requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War — and the American people — expect justice. Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay. To ensure this action, the Secretary of War has also issued a formal Letter of Censure, which outlines the totality of Captain (for now) Kelly’s reckless misconduct. This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly’s official and permanent military personnel file. Captain Kelly has been provided notice of the basis for this action and has thirty days to submit a response. The retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within forty five days. Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action. These actions are based on Captain Kelly's public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders. This conduct was seditious in nature and violated Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to which Captain Kelly remains subject as a retired officer receiving pay.

Thanks Dave!

@dave_sherrill Oh man, thank you so much—this is great!

@AaronStrongarm Featured your book in a reading today. youtu.be/KHMRxcjJIzo?si…

2025 has been a challenging year, to say the least. As it comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how I've seen God at work in this year that didn't turn out remotely the way I hoped or anticipated. aaronarmstrong.co/life-in-the-st…

@RobertAJGagnon1 @MikeCosper "He's more pro-life" is a weak argument. Trump's policies work against pro-life ethics (reduced access to healthcare & higher cost of living typically leads to fewer people having children, and stoking vaccine fears puts children at greater risk).

@MikeCosper, in an attempt to justify why he regularly has criticized faithful Christians for voting for Trump but has never criticized Christians for voting for Harris (2024), Biden (2020), and Clinton (2016), made the following absurd statement to me: “I look forward to your defense of the radical expansion of the availability of the abortion pill, unchecked expansion of IVF and all the genetic filtering that’s coming with it.” Can you see the fatal flaw in the argument? I have already criticized the Trump administration's stance on abortion pills and IVF, repeatedly. But the Trump administration's stance on such could hardly be determinative for not casting an effective vote against the Democratic candidate by voting for Trump. Democrats would not only be promoting the abortion pill and IVF with even greater zeal but also, on top of that, doing many worse things on the matter of abortion. Democrats are by far the more zealous proponents for all things abortion-related. It's not even close. Abortion is the Democrat Party's great idol, along with the coercive promotion of LGBTQ immorality. I live in Pennsylvania. For the last two months of the 2024 election campaign, we were blitzed by commercials from the Harris campaign, the vast majority of which were advocating for Harris' "strong" pro-abortion credentials and presenting Trump as the gravest of threats to "reproductive rights." Don't tell me (or any reasonable person) that the promotion of abortion is not front and center in the Democrat Party. Cosper is either deceptive about or inexcusably ignorant of all the pro-life, anti-abortion measures of the Trump administration that separates it from the prior Biden/Harris administration and the once-potential Harris/Walz administration. In the past year these measures have included: Barring federal funds for abortions or to organizations here or abroad that perform or promote abortion; freezing millions of dollars of funding that would have gone to Planned Parenthood (resulting in the closing of over 20 abortion clinics); restoring Title X funding to 2 pro-life states that the Biden administration had withheld; pardoning 23 pro-life protestors unfairly jailed by the Biden administration; scrubbing all material from HHS promoting abortion; signing an EO saying that human life begins at conception; endorsing the Born Alive bill to protect abortion survivors (which Dems oppose); dropping a Biden administration lawsuit against Idaho for a law that banned abortion; declaring countries with state subsidies for abortion to be violating human rights; largely ceasing the enforcement of the misnamed "Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act" that sought to imprison peaceful pro-life protestors; ending military policies that paid servicemembers travel costs for obtaining an abortion and gave time off for some travel. A Harris/Walz administration not only would have opposed all these pro-life actions but also would have done the following pro-abortion actions that the Trump administration is not doing: ending all conscience exemptions to protect doctors and nurses from having to perform or assist in abortions; imprisoning pro-life protestors; making their top priority the passage of a national "Reproductive Freedom" bill that would secure abortion for all 9 months across the nation; and stocking the courts with pro-abortion judges. Do I even have to go into what Trump did for the pro-life movement in his first administration, culminating in the nomination of three pro-life justices to the Supreme Court that led to the overturning of Roe and Doe? Had Clinton been elected in 2016, she would have nominated 3 hard-left abortion extremists to the Supreme Court, not to mention stocked all other federal courts with the same type of jurist. SCOTUS would never have overturned Roe and Doe for the foreseeable future. Thus, while on abortion Trump isn't everything we want from a pro-life position (which is why I supported DeSantis over Trump for the Republican nomination), he was over the last 3 election cycles a huge improvement over any Democrat running for President. I "look forward to" Cosper's "defense" of why he would cite the Trump administration's stance on IVF and abortion pills as a basis for not casting an effective vote against the Democrat candidate as regards the issue of abortion over the last 3 election cycles. It's sheer gaslighting. Radical support for abortion is an obvious idol of the Democrat Party, one of two essential elements in their platform (the other is coercive promotion of LGBTQ immorality, including the "transing" of minors, males in female private spaces and sports, forced LGBTQ indoctrination of minors, and so on). For decades it has been one of the two most essential identity markers of the Party. It is the defining feature in determining whom they nominate for judges and what legislation and executive actions get the highest priority. Given that, Cosper's railing against Christian Trump voters but never against Christian Harris (Biden, Clinton) voters, as well as his own apparent vote for the Democrat in the last 3 presidential cycles, makes him complicit in this radical promotion of abortion. Despite his deceptive or delusional protests to the contrary, he is not only “literally on the side of the people who want to trans kids” (as @WilliamWolfe rightly charged him with being) but literally on the side of the people who are by far the most radical zealots for abortion in all 9 months of pregnancy (well past the stage of viability), who even oppose medical aid to babies who survive botched abortions (literal infanticide), who push for funding of abortion nationally and internationally, who prosecute pro-life protestors, who harass with legal action and withholding of funds any state that puts any restrictions on unlimited abortion, and who even deny to medical staff conscience exemptions from participating in abortion.

For Christmas, @DavidMSchroeder and I talked with Joe Loconte about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the greatest Tolkien story you may not have read. Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fri… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ScsLG… Or online: player.captivate.fm/episode/7f5649… Enjoy!

When we represent our faith honestly, it is simply inevitable: at times we will be at odds with others. Yet we are called to contend, in obedience to and for the sake of the most divisive person in history.⁠ @AaronStrongarm 📚 ⁠ amzn.to/3DZhZE1

Contend: Defending the Faith in a Fallen World, by Aaron Armstrong. Endorsed by Peter Jones, David Murray, and more. ⁠@AaronStrongarm 📚 ⁠ amzn.to/3DZhZE1

It's reading recap season once again, which means it is time to share my favorite books of 2025. Read on and discover a new favorite, and share a top read of your own. #books #reading aaronarmstrong.co/my-favorite-bo…

What we say reveals our hearts. There’s nothing of Christ in dehumanizing and demeaning others or making excuses for those who do.

@JDVance But your boss pardoning a major drug trafficker is cool?

Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.

Watching someone deconstruct their faith, question everything they once believed—everything you *still* believe—is painful. I wish I could tell you that everything will be okay, but I can't. But here's what I can tell you: You are not alone. aaronarmstrong.co/a-word-for-the…

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@MikeCosper If Meg is typing, she's lying.

This is a lie. What French and others — like me — said was that the movement forming around Trump was embracing the fringe, and that it was going to be poison and reshape the overton window for what the GOP and the Right were about. And we were right. Tucker Carlson is as mainstream as it gets. I appreciate what @roddreher wrote this week, but how is it not too little, too late? Tucker spoke at the GOP convention last year. He has the ear of the president. He spoke at the Kirk memorial which folks on the right have hailed as the greatest evangelistic event in history. (These folks obviously know nothing about the attendance and television audience at Billy Graham crusades, but I digress... what a joke.) You cannot pretend that the GOP of 2012 would have mainstreamed and tolerated the psychotic conspiracism of Carlson. It would have told him to pack up his black helicopters and 9/11 "trutherism" and take a hike. Today, they just shrug and yawn at Carlson doing that kind of crap, platforming a parade of antisemites and conspiracy theorists on his podcast, and literally helping to mainstream a Neo-Nazi. I will take Megan at her word that she doesn't like some of this nonsense. But the larger point is that people like French, Russell Moore, @SykesCharlie @Timodc @JonahDispatch , Steve Hayes, and so many others warned you. And now these neo-Nazis are in your tent. TPUSA is still platforming Tucker. Megyn Kelly is still defending him. It's moral bankruptcy that for the sake of expedience or tribalism, or contempt for the Left, you ignored, and you're gonna reap the whirlwind. Those group chats that have been leaked are the tip of an iceberg. Something wicked and evil is festering on the right, and the contempt for those who warned you about it will do nothing to solve it.

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Years ago, I ran a feature called "Links I Like," curating content that I found interesting, thought-provoking, and funny. When I revamped my site, I retired that feature. It was fun, but didn't fit. So now, I'm kind of bringing it back via Substack. aaronarmstrong.substack.com/subscribe?para…