Miles Smith IV
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Miles Smith IV
@IVMiles
Historian of the South and the Atlantic World; college prof; lover of sports-ball; North Carolinian always, Michigander by choice; wife-guy; rt≠endorsement.
Hillsdale, MI Katılım Mayıs 2012
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I really wish people would stop lumping Thornwell and Dabney together.
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Scientists investigate the laws of nature.
Philosophers investigate the nature of laws.
We need both.
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At some point you have to realize that this is a significantly foreign culture and reconsider our relationship.
JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦@JayGenXer
🚨 BREAKING: Canada’s MAiD euthanasia machine just hit rock bottom. A Quebec physician has formally suggested assisted suicide for infants — babies from birth to one year old with severe deformities and syndromes. Parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed. Federal committees are now pushing to expand MAiD to “mature minors” (children), where a doctor — not the parents — decides if the kid can “consent” to their own death. Ontario’s Chief Coroner confirms hundreds of MAiD deaths are driven by poverty, loneliness, and lack of housing — not terminal illness. People are being offered lethal injection because they feel like a burden. This isn’t healthcare. This is a moral horror show. Years of Liberal-NDP rule have turned Canada into one of the most dangerous places on Earth for the vulnerable — from newborns to the poor. Danielle Smith is fighting this insanity in Alberta. The rest of the country needs to wake the hell up before it gets even worse. Watch the full press conference 👇 #MAiD #EuthanasiaCanada #cdnpoli #ProtectOurKids #CanadaIsBroken #LiberalFailure
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@fhmcclatchey is a @Hillsdale graduate, poet, father and author of "Killing Orpheus". Camilo Peralta reviews his collection of modern poetry, a world apart from the verse-less poetry flooding the generation.
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Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.
Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.
Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.
Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.
Watch the whole thing.
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"The Trump administration’s invocations of America’s Christian heritage are fairly conventional." - my latest at Substack [Link -->]
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WATCH: Country music star Eric Church describes the creative process behind his extremely personal UNC commencement speech, revealing he turned to his guitar after months of writer's block:
"Finally, one night, in a fit of frustration, I picked up my guitar just to kind of just to get away from the frustrating part of trying to write the speech. And as I was strumming the guitar, it just dawned on me. I hit all six strings and I thought, you know, hey, what what if I could make a speech out of these?" | @foxandfriends @ainsleyearhardt
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@PerfInjust I think Hillsdale that’s a good job of dealing w this tension effectively.
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The problem here is that colleges are civil institutions (not extended from the church or family) with a civil end, namely, the public good. The public good is not a byproduct or accidental to colleges, but the very purpose of them. Christian colleges are still colleges in essence, whose principal end is the public good.
Uriesou Brito@uribrito
Thank you, Dr. Merkle, for your clarity! So, what should we do? I invite all the Christian colleges and universities of America to reject the secular mission of education and to return to the charge that the apostle Paul gave us. We are here to facilitate the raising of the next generation of Christians in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And if we are going to reject the secular mission of education, we ought to also reject the secular funding of that education. This is a great moment to walk away from Pell Grants and federally subsidized student loans, which require us to evaluate our performance in purely secular categories. We don’t conduct secular education, and we don’t need secular funding to do it, especially to do it well. wng.org/opinions/their…
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Really good from @PresidentNSA at @WNGdotorg. If you dont want to deal w secular rules, dont take secular money. @NewSaintAndrews and @Hillsdale are two colleges who know this.
wng.org/opinions/their…
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Some say the future is Chinese. Don't worry. It isn't. wsj.com/opinion/free-e…
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The French saying no to physician assisted suicide.
Physician assisted suicide is not healthcare. cruxnow.com/church-in-euro…
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@GregMcBrayer3 In part, it's just the mystery of charisma. Some people are interesting and exciting to talk with, or just to listen to. Others aren't, even if they know as much or more.
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@mattmillsap Who was George Truett hanging out with about that time?
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@IVMiles Oh? You know the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention better than they know themselves?
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Because a sizable number of Evangelicals are trapped in Woodrow Wilson's brain.
Matthew Millsap@mattmillsap
Article XVII (“Religious Liberty”) is the least-edited article across all editions of the BF&M over the past 101 years. Why might that be?
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So fwiw I get what the BFM is getting after, but I don’t think the current language is the best descriptor for what even a historically Baptist understanding of the relationship between Church and state is.
Luke Stamps@lukestamps
Again, this is what I affirm:
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My brothers in Christ, the threats to the enduring Anglophone constitutional understanding religious liberty in 2026 are not the threats of 1660!
Miles Smith IV@IVMiles
The reason Baptist and Presbyterians sometimes sound goofy on religious liberty is because it’s 2026 and a lot of their polemics are still shadow-boxing a 17th century Anglican monarchy.
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I think one of the great tragedies of the ACNA is that TEC viciously fought the split instead of amicably letting everyone go, which then means the founding gets rushed and has a weird growth mindset, instead of focusing on proper governance.
YHC 🐖⚓️@yunghic1
More and more the strategy of the young ACNA seems to have been "Hey! Let's take this charismatic* guy who has grown a big church and make him a bishop! Surely big church == big diocese someday" *in both senses of the word
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