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@EricCMeadows Minerva Teichert: My fav. The majesty is captured so completely

Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts" "They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling

@japan_nobunaga When I first moved here, I was told to add some Blackburn syrup to the mix. Not a bad combo at all.

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

@Brian_from_AZ @FreddyLA7 @innoutburger What?

@FreddyLA7 Freddy, you and your buds please find an In-N-Out Burger since you are in Texas. There are legions of us In-N-Out fans and would love your opinion. 🍔 @innoutburger

CHOOSIN' TEXAS🤠

@Orangutangu @FreddyLA7 Why Austin?

@FreddyLA7 Hey Texans - should I move from Weeki Wachee Florida to Austin Texas? I moved here from Madison Wisconsin and grew up in Detroit Michigan for some reference

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A Prophet.

Elder Maxwell is timeless ❤️ #SaintsOnX #LDSx

"You aren't a Christian if you don't accept the Trinity." The history of that statement is quite shocking, and almost nobody who says it knows that acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity was once enforced by exile, fire, and death. Here is what happened. For the first 300 years after Jesus, Christians did not agree on how He related to God the Father. They argued about it constantly. There was no official rule. That was just normal. Then a priest named Arius said the Son came from the Father and was beneath Him. Not equal. Not eternal. A lot of Christians agreed with him. A lot. This was not some fringe group. For stretches of the next century, his side was winning. Other Christians said the opposite. The Son was fully God, equal to the Father, no beginning. Two camps, same Bible, opposite conclusions. The fighting got bad. Riots. Mobs in the streets. Christians brawling over the nature of God. So the Roman emperor stepped in. Constantine. He had just won a civil war and he wanted his empire to stop fighting. He was not even baptized. He did not care about the theology. He cared about order. In the year 325 he called the bishops to a town called Nicaea. He paid for it. He ran the meeting himself. And they voted. They ruled that the Son was equal to the Father, fully God, one substance with Him. That ruling is the core of the Trinity. It got settled in that room, by that vote, on one word that is not even in the Bible. They wrote the ruling into an official statement of belief. A creed. Every bishop was expected to sign it. That is the part people think is the story. It isn't. The shocking part is how they made everyone accept it. Constantine made the bishops sign the creed. The few who refused, he banished. Then he ordered every book Arius ever wrote to be burned. Then he made a law. If you were caught hiding one of those books, you were put to death. Even after all of that, the Trinity did not win for good. A few years later Constantine changed his mind. He brought Arius back. And he exiled Athanasius, the bishop who had won the argument at Nicaea. That man got banished five separate times in his life for believing the thing the church now says you have to believe. For the next fifty years it flipped back and forth. One emperor said Trinity. The next said no. Whoever sat on the throne decided what was true. The official belief about God changed every time power changed hands. It finally got locked in by another emperor named Theodosius. He made the Trinity the law of the empire. Disagree, and you were a heretic. Not in some spiritual sense. By law. Backed by soldiers. A few years after that, the empire executed a bishop for his beliefs. The first time the state put a Christian to death over doctrine. It would not be the last. Then came the document that says it out loud. A creed written around the year 500. Almost five centuries after Jesus. They named it after Athanasius, that same bishop. He did not even write it. They put his name on it for the authority. It opens by declaring that anyone who does not hold the Trinity, whole and complete, will perish forever. Believe it or be damned. Put in writing, and made the test of who gets saved. So that is where the line comes from. Not from Jesus. Not from the apostles. From emperors and councils who needed a divided empire to fall in line. The Trinity did not become the rule because the argument was settled. It became the rule because the side that held it had the throne, the law, and the sword. The next time someone says you aren't a Christian unless you accept the Trinity, remember what it took to make that rule stick. Exile. Fire. And death.

Going to go get set apart. Logging off. See you guys in two years

Alveda King explained her uncle’s dream better than any politician ever could. Dr. King dreamed of a nation where Americans would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Not by race. Not by quotas. Not by identity politics. By character. Yet today, many on the left insist that every Black American must think the same, vote the same, and belong to the same political party. That would make Black Americans the only people in America expected to surrender their individual beliefs for the sake of racial solidarity. That is the opposite of Dr. King’s dream. His dream was freedom. Freedom to think. Freedom to choose. Freedom to rise based on merit and character. I know… because I live that dream EVERY DAY.

Amazing! #Saintsonx #LDSX NO MANNER OF ITES ❤️

Last night, I got a call from President Trump. During the call, I asked about how the Pentagon had reclassified my faith. He said he would look into it. This morning, he told me it had been fixed. Thank you, President Trump. We can disagree on whether "Mormons are Christian." That's not what disturbed me about this. I don't want the GOVERNMENT classifying religions. That creates a dangerous tool that shouldn't be in the hands of ANY government. I don't believe that was Hegseth's goal. But what happens if the power shifts and the "Jesus was nonbinary" camp takes over? Will they recategorize conservative Christians? The Biden administration already tried to link Catholicism to domestic terror. If that possibility troubles you, then you understand my problem with this whole thing. I don't want the government to declare me a Christian. I want them to stay out of it.

If I were in charge of the Fairview Texas Temple

Four adults stranded on the Sabine River after a boat & two kayaks became swamped were safely rescued by Texas Game Wardens Friday morning. A drone operator located the group and guided wardens to them. A cell phone, lighter & dry bag helped save the day. facebook.com/share/r/1D6oN6…

The Texas Rangers are the only MLB team who doesn’t celebrate Pride Night. They’re skipping Pride Night again & instead, they’re having a Faith & Family Night June 18th Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung, & other players will share their testimonies/faith in Jesus Christ as a part of the event.

The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America must never have a state religion, not that the state be indifferent to religion.

"I preach the philosophies of men...mingled with scripture."

If you've never read the entire Declaration of Independence, or haven't done so in a long time, now would be a wonderful moment to do so, as we're a month out from the 250th anniversary. One way to read the document is through a legal lens. It's essentially an indictment of the British Crown and it needed to provide moral and legal support for what the colonists were doing. And they were committing high treason, never forget that. A remarkable document penned and signed by remarkable men.

@EricCMeadows @Schubacca85 I’ve not been blessed by Marieke Golden, I look forward to trying some! Until then… Tillamook Swiss will have to do 🧀 🐭

Marieke Golden hands down is the best cheese on the planet. It will change your life. wisconsincheesemasters.com/marieke-golden/ “Our most popular cheese – by far. This is a true crowd pleaser because of its semi-soft texture and flavors of Gouda, Cheddar, Parmesan and Swiss. Marieke Golden pairs well with any wine or beer. It is a complex and subtle cheese with a great melt. If you have not tried it – please do yourself a favor and do so – it is likely to become your favorite cheese. At our store we simply call it “The Best Cheese in the World.” And, by the way, it has won the World Championship.”

In honor of National Cheese Day, what’s your favorite kind of cheese? For me, it’s Tillamook Swiss. 🧀🇨🇭