Caleb Kaltenbach

The same God who calls us to boldly share Jesus also empowers us to relentlessly love anyone. We must do both.

Lost a national title to a man. 
Spoke up. 
Now facing a lifetime ban. Women’s sports—and free speech—are on the line.

At @HHSGov, we will not stand for states removing children from their families and transitioning them to a new gender against the parents’ will. Along with @ADM_Christine, we will keep families together whenever it is safe to do so. This week, we notified all 50 states that exercising sincerely held religious beliefs should not constitute child abuse or neglect under federal law.

@suealtman Fantastic gaslighting! No one is scapegoating Trans people. And you don’t speak for the vast majority of female athletes (who disagree with you).

As an athlete, I can guarantee there are at least 75,000 other issues facing women in sports besides whether or not trans people are competing against us. We need allies in Congress who won’t stand for Rs scapegoating our trans neighbors. That’s exactly who I’ll be in Congress.

Today is Valentine's day. For Catholics it is the feast of Saint Valentine. Emperor Claudius II banned marriage for young men because he believed single men made better soldiers (no attachments). Valentine defied the Empire because he followed the laws of God, not of men. He married couples in secret by candlelight in the catacombs. He knew that the State does not own the Family. He was beaten with clubs and beheaded on February 14, 269 AD. He died protecting the sacrament of Matrimony. This sacrament is under attack today from all sides, now more than ever. Sister Lucia said: "The final battle between Christ and Satan will be over marriage and the family." So instead of celebrating a secular Valentine's day, celebrate the life of this great saint who was martyred for his love of God.

“@CIFState, you created this mess and you are enabling the mental illness on full display today.” 🔥🔥 Chino Valley school board president @realSonjaShaw calling on the California high school sports governing board to grow a pair and end this state-sanctioned abuse of lying to children.

@HelenWebberley The science is clear that: 1. Your data isn’t telling the whole story 2. You’re participating in a system that’s ruining lives. Let’s listen to science instead of politics, Dr. Webberley. I celebrate that less people are trusting this abusive ideology each day.

Puberty blockers are fully reversible. That’s not opinion, it’s the position of the Endocrine Society and WPATH. This week, a new BMJ meta-analysis of 52 studies also confirmed trans women don’t have an inherent athletic advantage. The science is clear. Let’s listen to it. f.mtr.cool/knhfthigys

This.

I've made ads for the Super Bowl before. Spent millions to make them and air them during the Big Game. But this one -- this is the one that made the most impact. Zero media dollars. 40m views. Because it speaks the truth. Ban us all you want. Truth outs in the end.

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned she was likely to commit suicide. As the floodgates open, and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them to an unregulated medical experiment, gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative. They'll keep insisting that hardly any transitioned people regret their irreversible procedures, that gender clinicians know exactly what they're doing, that surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are of proven benefit and that minors who're denied these treatments will to kill themselves. All of this is a lie. Speaking at the WPATH conference in 2021, British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal admitted 'we are doing procedures here where we don’t have outcome data.' A woman from Utah said she felt gender clinicians like her were making it up as they went along: 'Because I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.' (thefp.com/p/were-all-jus…) This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts. As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public will learn the full extent of the harm done to kids in the name of an ideology. Clinicians performing these 'treatments' will go down in history as barbarous activists who betrayed a sacred oath: to do no harm. But we should never forget how many people outside the medical profession urged these young people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone advising caution was an evil bigot. There are people in elitist professions like publishing and academia, not to mention politicians and celebrities with young fan bases, who did all they could to champion the idea of gender identity, and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians. Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble, they've slurred whistleblowers and attacked anyone with valid questions. In doing so, they've created a cultural climate without which this appalling tragedy could not have taken place. Never forget, because only by learning the lesson can we stop this happening again. thefp.com/p/a-legal-firs…

@megbasham @EKCofAvonlea @ShaneClaiborne Nope, Shane. Jesus was calling out something else too: the money changers were conducting business in the Court of the Gentiles and were DISRUPTING the Gentiles’ worship. That’s part of the reason Jesus said, “House of worship.” Misapplying Scripture doesn’t make your point.

@ShaneClaiborne I don’t remember Jesus screaming in the faces of little children about their white privilege until they cried. Can you point me to that passage in the Bible?

Jesus literally staged a protest IN THE TEMPLE. Flipped some tables… and drove out the folks pretending to be holy. It seems pretty clear that one of the most offensive things to God is when people use religion to cover up their greed and bigotry. Rebuke it. In the name of Jesus.

@ShaneClaiborne Nope, Shane. Jesus was calling out greed AND something else: the money changers were conducting business in the Court of the Gentiles and were DISRUPTING the Gentiles’ worship. That’s part of the reason Jesus said “House of worship.” Misapplying Scripture doesn’t make a point.

🚨BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez has issued a summary judgment decision finding Parental Exclusion Policies UNCONSTITUTIONAL & issuing a Class-Wide Permanent Injunction in Thomas More Society case Mirabelli v. Olson. In a first-of-its-kind, class-wide, precedent-setting victory, a federal court has permanently blocked California AG Rob Bonta and the CA Dept. of Education from forcing teachers to lie to parents about their own children's secret gender transitions—declaring parents have a constitutional right to know and teachers have a constitutional right to share the truth. Order Granting Class-Wide Permanent Injunction: cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad42… Order Granting Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiffs: cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad42… STATEMENT TO FOLLOW @PaulJonna @peterbreen

@BenSasse I’m so sorry. Thankful for your faith. Praying for you and your family.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

I spent Friday night on Figueroa St, Los Angeles. It is now the world capital of child sex trafficking. Children as young as 8, sold for sex. Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass are just letting it happen. My plan to stop this sickening evil: tomorrow, livestream here, 8:45am PT.

@yoalexrapz I’m not new, and since we’re both Christians, let’s not throw little comments like that at each other. I asked an honest question.

@calebwilds You must be new

If your church does At The Movies you don’t go to a solid church.

Answer: it helps girls. It tells girls they have the right to things of their own. It tells girls they have the right to say 'no'. It reminds girls that the desires of boys do not supersede their feelings, their rights, their discomfort or their safety.

@7eleven How about not firing an employee for defending her life?? You need to reverse that decision and apologize to her.

Which one of you am I taking home to my parents this month? 🫦

@7eleven How about not firing an employee for defending her life?? You need to reverse that decision and apologize to her.

Woke up hot just like a taquito 😏