Bill Alexy

One of my favorite GKC precepts. A virtues let loose, unrestrained by its neighboring virtues leads to madness.

On some level, all protestants understand sanctification. Even for hose who believe one can never lose their salvation they still believe that there are sins that signify that a person was never "saved." The dread and fear that besets one when he thinks he is saved, but has committed sins that signify he never was leads to self-condemnation followed by either a shipwrecked faith or a negotiated compromise. What helped me was being introduced to concepts of enabling grace, my culpability when offending that grace, and mercy through repentance.

Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines. A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us. For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when @OrthodoxEthos and @Acts17David were discussing and it is what I have seen in @gavinortlund's videos. In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on? I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.

@roosterniels @BishStrick Thanks, Niels. I think a lot of us are weary with this unnecessary infighting.

@wtalexy @BishStrick Thank you! Couldn't have articulated this better.

I feel it is important to address concerns regarding the recently released  Encyclical Letter, “Magnifica Humanitas,” of the Holy Father Leo XIV.  pillarsoffaith.net/a-catholic-dis…

@UnknownUserRhys @SkullnaughtS @TheHat2 That moment until they start compelling free speech, and parading naked with children and handing them the tools to mutilate themselves

@SkullnaughtS @wtalexy @TheHat2 Basic human decently = just let trans people exist without facing discriminated or hatred just for existing and not causing harm to others.

What if I told you that I've seen one of Anita Sarkeesian's private lectures that she gave to a game developer about 4 years ago?

@bennyjohnson Definitely on the Huberman protocol

New from President Trump on Truth:

@MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC Where’s the part where they fill the fish tank with water?

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

@TheHat2 She sounds practically evangelical

Here is the clip. Sarkeesian is responding to a question about what her biggest challenges are in trying to "shift the greater culture in games" and ending abuse and harassment. This is her complete answer to that question. No clipping, no edits, nothing out of context.

My friend Tim makes light look like a paintbrush. Beautiful photography.

I’m thrilled to share that one of my floral #photography portraits from my new collection, entitled Puffy Peonies, has been accepted into the Midwest Center for Photography in Wichita, Kansas. | @FujifilmX_US #macro #flower Find out more about the event at mwcponline.com/blossom.html

So let me get this straight, he's asking the state to deliver more revenue to the city. As far as I know, that would require more efficiency, less corruption, and taxing upstate New Yorkers even more. I'm all for the first two, but New Yorkers are exhausted carrying a heavy tax burden as is. Onerous regulation, taxes at every level of government, and expensive social programs have resulted in teacher layoffs by the hundreds, crumbling roads, and rotting houses. Key NY State Homeownership TrendsLowest in Nation: New York consistently ranks at or near the bottom for state homeownership rates. Declining Sales: In March 2026, closed sales in New York State declined by 5.7% year-over-year. Urban vs. Rural: Homeownership is particularly low in urban areas (approx. 49.8% in 2025) compared to rural areas. Rising Costs: Despite falling sales, median home prices in New York continue to rise, climbing 5% year-over-year to $420,000 in November 2025. Long-Term Projection: Projections indicate that New York is among the states expected to see some of the largest absolute declines in homeowners over the next two decades due to slow growth and affordability issues.

He’s so calm, and so wrong. St Paul would make mince meat out of him. St Augustine would rip him a new one. But gay clerics? They would applaud.

@grok @madsouris @dhh Even @grok calls X Twitter?

The "NaziBook 13 Pro" jab (and extensions to DHH/Omarchy) is hyperbolic name-calling from critics who dislike DHH's public pushback against cancel culture, DEI mandates, identity politics, and "woke" corporate practices. They equate his emphasis on merit, free speech, and technical excellence with far-right extremism. It's the latest round of guilt-by-association in tech Twitter: disagree with the ideology = Nazi label, then smear anything he endorses (like Framework's modular laptop). DHH's post calls out the endless demands behind it.

There's never any appeasement possible with these lunatics. Whatever concession or apology you offer, there's always another round of demands coming. The sooner you learn to say no to these people the better.

Allegory! And more on point without the blasphemy. Henry VIII was once promoted as the defender the faith for his defense of the seven sacraments and the pope. From defender to adulterer, from adulterer to slanderer, from slanderer to…

@DougTenNapel Unless it’s a real artifact. Then it’s just cool.

This is worse than what Trump did.

Doug as a brother in Christ I must disagree. Even allegorically this doesn’t work. “Truly truly I say unto you, unless a man gnaw on my bones and drink my blood, he shall not be saved.” …and many disciples who followed him left. The humility and authority of Christ is seen on the mounting of the cross, his descent into hell, and his incarnation as bread. For those that this offends they are counted among the disciples who left out of disgust for his statements.

Trump retweeted an allegory of him healing a sick nation. Learn storytelling. People are anxious to accuse Trump of blasphemy, then yawn at the Pope claiming to be a Holy Father. This not a literal depiction of Jesus and comes nowhere near what transsubstantiation does. The Chosen might be idolatry but this is not.

Radical idea. Get off the federal teat, build up the nuns and let them cook.

@dhh Great book. Validates a lot of instincts parents have had, while boosting their confidence to resist the leftavists

Can't recommend Abigail Shrier's book Bad Therapy enough for any parent who is considering therapy for their kids or has it pushed upon them by their school. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Afghanistan, reduced to rubble, remained a formidable threat. The notion that we must destroy a civilization to secure victory is clearly false. Furthermore, the idea that taking countless innocent lives is simply a means to defeat the enemy is not only impractical and vainglorious, but evil.

Pointing out that your several instances of supporting your otherwise sound arguments with junk videos isn’t us discrediting your points. It’s calling you out to a higher standard. The post preceding this was only one of many. So yes, it does matter. It’s been a careless pattern.

I’ve been informed that the video that prompted this tweet was AI generated, but of course that is completely irrelevant to the point, which is well-illustrated by countless other tweets and public remarks, such as this one right on cue: x.com/EricLDaugh/sta…