Lost And Found

I was raised Roman Catholic for the first nineteen years of my life, and I have lived as a Protestant for the past fifty-three. Over that time, I have served as a layman, as a deacon, and now as a pastor within Baptist churches shaped by Evangelical Reformed theology. For that reason, the version of Protestantism described by many Catholics on X does not correspond to anything I have known in doctrine or in practice. Protestants do not approach baptism casually, as if it were something to be repeated at will. Scripture speaks clearly of “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph 4:5). Baptism marks entry into the covenant community as a public profession of faith, grounded in union with Christ in his death and resurrection (Rom 6:3–4). It is not a ritual to be multiplied, but a once-for-all sign of that union. In the same way, Protestants take marriage with full seriousness as a covenant before God. From the beginning, “a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (Gen 2:24; cf. Matt 19:4–6). What God has joined together is not to be treated lightly or dissolved according to preference. Our teaching and pastoral practice aim to uphold that lifelong covenant, even as we carefully work through the difficult pastoral cases addressed in passages such as Matt 19 and 1 Cor 7. Protestants also do not understand the church as a building. Scripture consistently speaks of the church as the gathered people of God: “you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house” (1 Pet 2:5). The church is the assembly (ekklēsia) of those called out and joined together in Christ (Heb 10:24–25), who meet regularly for worship, for the preaching of the Word (2 Tim 4:2), for prayer, and for mutual encouragement as we persevere in faith. With respect to the Lord’s Supper, Protestants do not treat it as a mere symbol devoid of spiritual reality. It is an ordinance instituted by Christ—“Do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24–25)—in which we proclaim his death until he comes (1 Cor 11:26). In that act, we look back to the cross, we examine ourselves in the present (1 Cor 11:28), and we look forward to the marriage supper of the Lamb (Rev 19:9). And while we deny any change in the elements themselves, we affirm that believers truly commune with Christ by the Spirit. As Paul writes, “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?” (1 Cor 10:16). The presence we experience is not physical, but it is real—mediated by the Holy Spirit and received by faith. I could continue, but the point is straightforward. The Protestantism I see described by Catholics is not one I recognize from Scripture, from church history, or from a lifetime within Evangelical Reformed Baptist life. It bears little resemblance to the convictions that have shaped my faith, my ministry, and the churches I have served.

Turns out "separation of church and state" just meant no Christianity.

Students should read 25 books or book-equivalents each year. In every elementary grade. Looking back at the standards my Mom worked from in the 2000’s, I’d say we lost something.

@AndrewKolvet @KenPaxtonTX @bennyjohnson @AndrewSypher @tpusastudents It is my hope that Baylor alums do some SERIOUS buttkicking on this, and the legislature and Atty Gen need to determine if laws were violated. People need to LOSE their jobs. This is NOT Texas values.

So let me get this straight... Baylor tells TPUSA we can invite community members (non-students) to our event, but then reverses their decision after some progressive students complained, forcing us to tell 4,500 ticket holders not to come. Baylor then greenlights a progressive counter-programming event "All Are Neighbors" and decides community members CAN attend that. The Southern Baptist school's hypocrisy is documented right here in the student newspaper for all to see. What gives, @Baylor?

⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it. The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts. But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build. 272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market. The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills. The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction. And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them. The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price. That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third. And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth. That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral.

NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs. In reality, this tells a darker story—we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological.

SCOOP In an unearthed video, Senator Cornyn’s team forgot to delete a video from YouTube where Cornyn advocates for amnesty for illegal aliens. It would be a shame if every Republican in Texas sees this before the May 26th runoff. No amnesty!

He gave you a very simple, very logical answer, and you still failed to grasp it. Excluding an option from the ballot box is against the core of democracy. That is the point. If the people are sovereign, then the people decide. Not you. Not your ideological comfort zone. Not some self appointed gatekeeper deciding in advance which outcomes are allowed. And the fact that your problem is with constitutional monarchy is baffling. Japan. Sweden. Denmark. All constitutional monarchies. And if you ask me, all three look a lot more democratic than France does these days. So what exactly are you arguing here? That democracy is sacred, unless Iranians might vote for something you personally dislike? Because that is not democratic principle. That is political narcissism dressed up as virtue. And I am pretty sure when Plato warned that democracy could one day become the death of democracy, he had people like you in mind: people so in love with their own version of freedom that they cannot tolerate the public choosing differently. You asked your question. He gave you a cleaner answer than you deserved. The fact that you still cannot process it is your problem, not his.

Nick Fuentes will never be invited to Yale. He will never be at Vanity Fair parties. He will never sit down and have casual conversations about killing and stealing with someone from the Times. He won’t be defended by Ezra Klein. Hasan runs in the most elite circles. Wake up.

The big question now is what the IRS will do about the SPLC as this case unfolds over the coming years. There is substantial evidence of breaches of 501(c)(3) obligations, including misuse of the public tax subsidies, violations of private inurement and private benefit rules, illegal activities, and material misrepresentations. Unlike a criminal indictment, the administrative standard is much lower, essentially a balance of probabilities. Based on what is laid out in the indictment alone, the IRS already has enough to take action, from taxing diverted income to freezing bank accounts and placing liens on assets. The question is whether it is willing to act.

Beim Untergang der Titanic starben 80% der Männer, aber nur 25% der Frauen. Die Regel "Frauen und Kinder zuerst" wurde selbst von Superreichen im Angesicht des eigenen Todes eingehalten. Beim Untergang der MV Le Joola im muslimischen Senegal am 26. September 2002 überlebte von 600 Frauen nur eine Einzige. Beim Schulfeuer in Mekka im muslimischen Saudi-Arabien am 11. März 2002 ließ die Religionspolizei nicht "korrekt" verschleierte Mädchen nicht aus der brennenden Schule.

@athenaeumbc This is embarrassing. Didn't even use synonyms.

Insane to think this is a real SAT exam question. Attention spans are now so bad that some "reading passages" are just 24 WORDS. We are becoming an illiterate society. Why is nobody talking about this?

God is good if he gives you 3 kids in 4 years. He’s also good if he gives you 2 in 18 years. He’s also good if you have a bunch of babies waiting for you in heaven. He’s also good if you have no babies. God’s goodness is not based on what He does or does not do for you.

I had a FISA case once where they convicted the client with secret evidence he never got to see. In a domestic criminal case. Where the defendant was a U.S. citizen. People don’t realize how FISA really gets used. It’s an unconstitutional abomination.

Feminism is the belief that women should have authority without responsibility, while men should have responsibility without authority.

I blame SPLC for vilifying good men and sentencing them to death for their ideas.

@CatSchrodingrr @micsolana This implies you think there is justification for assassinations. So you want to live in a thugocracy just so long as you are on the side of the thugs. Maybe you should look a little more closely at the information sources that are telling you assassinations are okay.

@micsolana WHY are the assassinations happening? That’s what you should try to fix instead of wringing your hands.

the new york times politely discussed the assassination of a businessman with hasan piker, who made the case, in the new york times, for assassination. this is not a small thing. this is an insane, unacceptable thing that every liberal needs to denounce.

When the world shut down over a 99.9999% survivable virus, I had to tell a few dozen rig hands they were out of a job. Then I had to tell even more frac hands. Then snubbing hands. Then I went home to wait for my layoff. Then I spent 6 months applying for jobs with no interviews because corporate America had banned White men in honor of Saint George Floyd, Patron Saint of Fentanyl. A great Twitter friend who I am indebted to forever got me a job with a 25% pay cut, and I had to work physically harder than I had in a decade. Anyway. Nobody in news media ever reached out for my story. And it wasn’t a unique story, I was one of a couple hundred thousand guys going through this.

Klaviyo is the latest company to run ads in the San Francisco Chronicle explicitly asking applicants to email their resumes to their immigration department Should this qualify as legitimate attempts to recruit Americans to sponsor multiple visas?

We have been sharing this concern. So no qualified US Pediatric GI doc avail in an academic center? The large systems sure seem to want to replace American docs with H1Bs this just need to be stopped immediately. I don’t think the general public funding these academic centers wants this either.