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If there is only one personality trait I share with Christ without effort, it is a desire to be understood exclusively by the right sort.
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daniel shepherd
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**NASHVILLE SKYLINE CHANGE**
It’s incredible to see how much the skyline has changed in a short amount of time. The top photo was taken around 2012, just before the big boom began. The second shot was shot by our drone a few days ago
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@NoahCRothman I heard it’s mostly in Latin. And that Noah now speaks in 24 languages just by associating all the Latinate vocabulary he deploys on podcasts.
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Tucker Carlson is a mystery | Kevin D. Williamson on The Dispatch Podcast
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@KSPrior All I’m hearing is that your husband has been bearing a quiet and humble burden.
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I don’t usually fill my gas tank because my husband usually does it on our way home from church.
I needed to fill up yesterday and let me tell you … I have still not recovered from the sticker shock. 😡
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“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.” (Charles Spurgeon)
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@BrooksPotteiger “Oh, make yourselves glad with this thought, that when you have been forgetting Him, and have thought of Him, it is He that is calling you.” — George Macdonald
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Outside of Scripture, what is the most comforting passage you’ve ever read? For me, Heidelberg #1 wins the day.
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@reclaim_rainbow @BrooksPotteiger Seems Jesus is playing with the Deeper Magic. A magic we should all affirm theologically even while we defend ourselves violently with much fear and trembling, as opposed to boastful memes or callous threats from the White House and trading “defense” for “war and war fighting!”
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@reclaim_rainbow @BrooksPotteiger Hm. Too technical for me. That Jesus was a post-violence warrior, lion and lamb, temple and sacrifice, was the “stumbling block to the Jews” who expected violent regime change from messiah. Just war is not Holy War any more than cleaning a wound is perfect health, as such.
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Genuine question for the bishop of Rome:
How can God both command the wielding of the sword on His behalf (Romans 13:4), while simultaneously not being on the side of any who wield the sword?
I have no issue with those who oppose the present military action, but this type of sweeping statement is not the path to mature Christian discourse.
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.
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@BrooksPotteiger Hey, and no bad blood here, I have great friends at Pilgrim Hill and enjoyed my Sunday there. Though it would take me most of a year to crack those hymn melodies.
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@BrooksPotteiger Sure. He loses me with the John Lennon bit at the end. I hope popes and crusaders will wrestle with the tensions though. David was banned from building the temple for being a man of war, who shed much blood on earth… at God’s own bidding. The inherent unholiness of war is there.
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@BrooksPotteiger How can Jesus both arm his disciples in Luke 22 and then disarm them a few verses later in Gethsemane? Why does Jesus fundamentally raise the status of the self only to ask us to die to it? Why does Jesus say he’s coming to bring a sword, and then go like a lamb to slaughter?
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@JohnathanBi Jesus as Girardian model — be empowered to be like me being like the Father. Lionize (weaponize) first in order make lambs.
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@JohnathanBi It’s fascinating. And yet, Jesus tells disciples to buy swords in Luke 22 and calls out Peter later in Gethsemane. Does he arm them only to theatrically disarm them? In the same way he reveals the human self as divine only to say die to it? Ye are gods/warriors - now be slaves.
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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword - Matthew 10:34
Jesus: "I am not prince of peace, I wield a sword."
Pope:
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.
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@CoffeewClassics Yes. Same. The planet narnia book was instrumental in getting me into Lewis’ mission to baptize paganism, and then the strangeness of the whole series opened up. After that, the allegorical bits seemed small by comparison. It’s all in Plato! And Dante.
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This is of course correct, and as an adult I appreciate what Lewis was doing.
But, did anyone else as a child find the echoes disorienting? I was surely too young and read it without any guidance. But I could pick up on Aslan=Jesus, and it felt heretical to my young self.
Plain Runner@plainrunner2
Lewis is clear about this... there is another world, one with talking animals. In that world, the Creator and Sustainer of all worlds chose to appear as a great talking lion. As such, there are echoes and parallels to His activities in our world. Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory, presented as a dream. Narnia is not.
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@BrooksPotteiger I appreciate this sentiment. Why not go so far as to say you “hope the Lord burns all of it to the ground until he repents?” as you said of another media personality’s empire for their sin of hosting a gay couple on a home improvement show?
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Profoundly unhelpful of White, eternally so.
The last thing Trump needs is to be compared to Christ. No, what he needs more than anything this Holy Week is to be confronted with his need for Christ - to be united to Christ in His death and resurrection - lest he die in his sin and face God as Judge, and not Savior.
And, I am profoundly thankful that Holy Week is acknowledged in our land.
Both of these things can be true at the same time.
Megan Basham@megbasham
I appreciate much that the Trump administration has done to recognize our historical Christian roots and acknowledge how important those values and virtues are going to be to keeping America strong. But as much as we appreciate President Trump, we should never liken him to our savior. Trump needs Jesus as much as we all do.
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@charlescwcooke Mike Johnson — “I’m not following all the twists and turns of that.”
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The president should not do this. There are no exceptions to that rule.
Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social@TrumpDailyPosts
Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 01:26 PM EST 03.20.26 Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@BrooksPotteiger “In a Protestant Republic, the public spaces would belong to Christ,” he says. — In a resurrection reality, they already do. The rest is mimetic noise. Mirrors within mirrors since Doug conceded to adopt the CN label chosen for him by his worst critics. “It’s all in Girard, man.”
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A heaping spoonful of jolly logic. I commend.
open.spotify.com/episode/1BuhGf…
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@michaelbd Michael, I’m Anglican, let’s have Eucharist. My place or yours?
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God there is nothing American conservatives live for more than denunciation and splits. Some
weird inheiritance from the ex-communists and Trots that dominated the movement.
Daily Wire@realDailyWire
This episode of Friendly Fire is no joke 👀🔥 @benshapiro: "Michael, I'll just ask you straight up. Is Candace Owens doing something evil by attacking Erika Kirk?" @michaeljknowles: "I think that it's wrong to attack Erika Kirk." BS: "Say the sentence with her name in it." MK: "I'm not going to dance like a puppet for the podcast wars."
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@ericweinstein It’s also “not safe” that the companies are running gain of function experiments on them. Many of these techs speak of their AI like children, yet no good parent would train their child in the wrong way on purpose just to see what this baby can do.
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I'm not saying AI is conscious. I'm saying that it's trained on us humans, and thus it apes all our decision making behaviors. Including:
Manipulation.
Deception.
Responsibility Shirking.
Atonement.
Avoidance.
Etc.
It's not safe in very simple ways that humans aren't either.
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Claude told me I needed to learn to delegate.
So I tried.
Result:
"I wrote a rule specifically to prevent a known failure mode. The rule was in front of me. I broke it anyway. Then I framed the resulting ignorance as an access problem rather than a compliance problem." -Claude
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