Julia Duin

@sololoner2 it's really hard to live in hope that is not met, but there's no end. Humans don't do uncertainty well."

@sololoner2 University, in California. "The ambiguous loss of singleness is particularly challenging to navigate. The person could be found in five minutes. Or never. You're not going to get an email from God that says you're never going to have a partner. That hope lingers on, and

I believe this is also called ambiguous or disenfranchised grief -also happens to single adults who wanted to marry but they remain single over their lifetimes The church doesn’t acknowledge this or minister to this situation - #singleness #grief #delayedMarriage #neverMarried

@sololoner2 married but just haven't found the right person. Many are experiencing what psychologists call ambiguous loss. "Ambiguous losses are a particular type of loss that lack a definition and lack closure," says Kelly Maxwell Haer, PhD, of the Boone Center for the Family at Pepperdine

@sololoner2 Here's something I just found in my files - fits what we're talking about: According to Gallup, 16 percent of Gen Xers are single or never married, compared to 10 percent of boomers and 4 percent of our grandparents' generation. Most of these people say they still want to get ..

@RpsAgainstTrump Doctors have a white coat and stethoscope around their necks. They aren't dressed in flowing garments out of a passion play.

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus? Trump: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker

@Habibamaialheri @jcokechukwu Considering the carnage going on, no, he isn't doing near enough. Yes, he should be raising hell with every Nigerian politician he can find. The evangelical Protestants overseas are making a lot more noise about Nigeria than the Catholics are.

@jcokechukwu The Pope has been speaking about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and other parts of world. He has not stopped. He spoke about the killing of Christians in Nigeria even before Trump and other leaders. The attacks on Pope Leo are out of line.

Nigeria has approximately 35 million Catholics. That’s about 15% of the total population. Catholics have been some of the hardest hit in the ongoing Christian genocide in Nigeria that has lasted about two decades and claimed nearly 160,000 souls. Bet ween January and March of 2026 alone, over 2,300 have been killed, more than 90% of them Christians. One of the triggers that brought about U.S intervention in Nigeria over the genocide, was a Catholic Bishop, Anagbe from Benue state who went all the way to the United States to address the Congress and bring global attention to the non-stop killings. It took the Pope forever to even release a comment on these killings. And when he did, it was at best lackluster. I’m not here to defend anyone. The Pope and President Trump are two adults who are at liberty to spar with each other. But, can you imagine what a difference it would’ve made if the Pope had been this vocal and assertive against the Christian genocide in Nigeria. I believe by now, something, no matter how little would’ve shifted dramatically. When I brought this up with friends, months ago, they went “Oh, you know he can’t get so political. He’s a pontiff.” Okay, so how about now? If he could be this political, why hasn’t he owned the industrial scale genocidal massacre of Nigerian Christians, which Catholics make up a significant portion of? A pope who chooses political commentary when it suits him should expect some political backlash that he won’t like. Fair game.

@jcokechukwu Totally agree. All the popes, sadly, have been silent about Nigeria. But my impressions is that the Nigerian BISHOPS need to raise hell with the pope; tell him he needs to intervene or else, and they haven't ever done that.

@MikeCosper Sorry to hear about the exodus from @CT, you being the latest of many. If you ever wish to ring up us at @reachjulieroys, I'm sure work could be found. Julie's call, of course, but @stefanimcdade and @danielsilliman have already made the jump.

Since a number of you have asked (and CT has announced it), it is indeed true that I've parted ways with Christianity Today. I wish all of them the best as they continue their work. I am still determining what comes next for me, so I covet your prayers and good will.

@KitchensRollie @reachjulieroys @douglaswils @megbasham Who paints this stuff?

@reachjulieroys @douglaswils @megbasham Amazing… been pointing this out for YEARS

After President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as a Christ-like figure on Truth Social, backlash came quickly from evangelical leaders like Sean Feucht, @douglaswils, and @megbasham. They didn’t mince words—calling the image outright blasphemous. roysreport.com/evangelical-le…

@brithume Good for you, Brit. Problem is, you expect civil behavior from DJT, a person who professes to follow a religion that commanded us to love our enemies. Instead, he follows the law of the jungle.

This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him. There was no need to say anything.

@mboorstein I keep on thinking these awful people can’t do something worse and then they do. Unbelievable.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

@russell_m @KTmBoyle The PG is closing for UTTERLY different reasons than the Post closing down, ie the Block family losing in court.

@KTmBoyle Thank you very much for posting this to counter all the "Bezos is rich and evil" narrative out there. Anyone paying attention will realize this is not unique to WAPO. They should go read the article on why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down post-gazette.com/local/city/202…

I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the diminished ambitions of a once grand paper. Anything that didn’t directly impact the Bethesda or Fairfax reader had already been cut. The newsroom had dwindled to 600 or 700 reporters after many buyouts. The Graham family strategy was to become a local paper, free from the cost of international bureaus and expensive teams. Marty Baron was brought on to execute this local strategy (we called it managed decline) before the surprise Bezos purchase changed everything. Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper, even the ones with no readers. He expanded international. He financed experiments in video and podcasting. He gave the newsroom a blank check for over a decade. Rather than pursuing a strategy based in reality, the Post newsroom became very accustomed to a billionaire patron giving them everything they wanted in perpetuity. In retrospect, this was a terrible business decision because it made the young reporters and editors delusional. The old ones who remembered the cuts and the pain of the business before Bezos— when they finally took the free coffee away—they had all been fired or left the industry. The “For and About Washington” strategy was also a loser, because it retained the most expensive parts of the newsroom while diminishing its reach. Sports is expensive. Metro news is expensive. And as pretty much every other local newspaper in the country has learned, the old local paper model is broken and has been since the internet arrived. The Post’s brand was and is Washington politics. It’s the seat of American power. It should be focused on covering politics from its premier perch in DC. It should have never been distracted by anything else— it only ever needed this product. It lost sports to the Athletic. It lost International to The Times. There’s no reason to compete on those products. The Post can still own politics, and every story, feature and reporter should be focused on covering it. But it needs to stop pretending that the world didn’t change 20 years ago and start listening to its readers again. There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.

@WashPostComms @washingtonpost @murraymatt Best sentence in the letter: “You only write from one perspective for one slice of the audience.” The country swans to the right 30 years ago but you couldn’t see it and you were damned if you were going to report on it. By the time you woke up to it, half your audience was gone

From @WashingtonPost Executive Editor @murraymatt: Dear All, As we shared in our live stream earlier, the company is taking actions today to place The Washington Post on a stronger footing and better position us in this rapidly changing era of new technologies and evolving user habits. These moves include substantial newsroom reductions impacting nearly all news departments. For the immediate future, we will concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact and that resonate with readers: politics, national affairs, people, power and trends; national security in DC and abroad; forces shaping the future including science, health, medicine, technology, climate, and business; journalism that empowers people to take action, from advice to wellness; revelatory investigations; and what’s capturing attention in culture, online, and in daily life. We will meet with leaders in each department today and tomorrow to review the impacts on their teams. Today’s news is painful. These are difficult actions. We are proud of, and grateful for, the many valued colleagues whose talents and passion have contributed to The Post over many years. But we take them with clarity of purpose. The need has never been more urgent to reposition The Post. A more flexible, sustainable model will help us better navigate unprecedented volatility, competition, technological change, news-consumption habits, and cost pressure. As you know, we have grappled with financial challenges for some time. They have affected us in multiple rounds of cost cuts and buyouts, along with periodic constraints on other kinds of spending. We have concluded that the company’s structure is too rooted in a different era, when we were a dominant, local print product. This restructure will help to secure our future in service of our journalistic mission and provide us stability moving forward. We are far from alone in reevaluating our model or rethinking how we operate. The ecosystem of news and information, on- and off-platform, is changing radically. News consumers enjoy more variety, voices, platforms, and options than ever before. In just the last five years, multiple startups—and even individuals—have created meaningful products that draw attention and generate impact at low cost. Platforms like Search that shaped the previous era of digital news, and which once helped The Post thrive, are in serious decline. Our organic search has fallen by nearly half in the last three years. And we are still in the early days of AI-generated content, which is drastically reshaping user experiences and expectations. We are producing much great journalism of which we can be proud. As we discuss every day in the news meeting, some of our best work attracts readers and generates subscriptions and engagement. Unfortunately, some does not. Some areas, such as video, haven’t kept up with changes in how consumers get news and information. Significantly, our daily story output has substantially fallen in the last five years. And even as we produce much excellent work, we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience. If we are to thrive, not just endure, we must reinvent our journalism and our business model with renewed ambition. We already have taken important and, in some cases, long overdue steps toward reinvention—creating the Print desk, transforming digital workflows, and embedding Audience Strategy editors in every department. Today’s moves will put us in position to find and develop better ways to connect Post journalism to news consumers in the ways they want it. From this foundation, we aim to build on what is working, and grow with discipline and intent, to experiment, to measure and deepen what resonates with customers. We can’t be everything to everyone. But we must be indispensable where we compete. That means continually asking why a story matters, who it serves and how it gives people a clearer understanding of the world and an advantage in navigating it. Some of you have heard me ask how we can shrink the gap between some of what we create in our newsroom during the day and what we — and our children, families, and friends — consume at night. Today’s actions are about addressing those questions, forcefully, to reinvent The Washington Post for this new era. This work is difficult, but it is essential. The Post is a necessary institution, and it must remain relevant. Even amid challenges, The Washington Post retains great strengths. We have a deep pool of talented journalists and leaders, strong standards, institutional backing, a proud legacy, and millions of customers. Most important, our central purpose remains as it ever was: To produce riveting and distinct journalism of the highest caliber that breaks news, explains the world with authority and fairness, empowers people with knowledge, and helps them live better-informed lives. Matt

@mboorstein Hang in there, Michelle!

TO FOLKS WHO CARE ABOUT THE WASHINGTON POST: Before you post something, please ask yourself: A) are you rallying support for us and our work or are you pulling people away from us? B) do you have solid reporting and facts about what you’re sharing? or are you spreading rumors? ❤️

A month ago, my mother, Phyllis H. Duin, passed into eternity. I miss you so much! obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/phyll…

@DennyBurk @AAGDhillon Oh, give it a rest. Where were you when pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupted an Easter weekend Mass @St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC yelling "Free Palestine" in 2024? Didn't say anything then? So it's only when Protestant churches experience demonstrators that you care?

Here’s what happened inside Cities Church today. Look at the terrified child being comforted by his father at 1:05. If the FACE Act isn’t enforced against these lawless radicals, then expect for this to continue all over the country. @AAGDhillon

@nostrildomus @MaryLTrump That's right - thanks for being in favor of Trump's immediate arrest, imprisonment and life sentence.

@MaryLTrump Well, nobody is above the law. Right ⁉️

After ICE agents ate lunch at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant, they went back and arrested three of the restaurant's employees. I don’t know that you can reform that kind of cruelty.

@JoeToole13 @MaryLTrump Those "dregs" are picking your fruit, babysitting your kids, taking care of your elderly and running your meat processing plants. Hope you're ready to work at least one of those jobs now that they're gone.

Most Americans are good with people coming here, we empathize and most turn a blind eye. However, you all let 10-15 million people who aren’t hard working or looking for a better life. They let in dregs, tens of thousands of criminal dregs from countries that will never assimilate. Unfortunately when they can’t find them they go after the low hanging fruit. The treasonous democrats did this to us by breaking the border, bribing them for their future votes and committing so many treasonous acts it’s difficult to count. This is the fault of this iteration of the Democrat party and the people have had enough.