Melissa Leanza

What we lose when the Bible is only on a screen: 1. You remember where the verse lives on the page and aids memorization. 2. The page shows you much more at once. You see the context, not just a few verses at once. 3. The page keeps your notes. Years from now they will still be there, in your own hand. 4. The page cannot distract you with a notification. It only asks to be read. 5. The page is something your children watch you open and they know it’s the Bible. The screen gives much. The page gives more.

Every accusation is a confession

@JonahDispatch In all the confusion did Pippa forget what day it is?

Walked the beasts on the mean streets of downtown DC around 4:45 AM. They are still adjusting.

@mattvanswol They have twisted scripture to fit their idea of what God is like. This is idolatry. God is who He say He is, and where his word speaks He speaks. The people you describe deny creation order we find in Genesis 1 and the rest of it is made pretty clear in Romans 1

I could use some help... I came back to church after years away and I'm still figuring a lot of it out... but what is going on with the "Christian Leftists"???? These are people who know Scripture better than I do... but the SAME PEOPLE turn around and tell me a kid in elementary school can know 100% that they were born in the wrong body. That puberty blockers are healthcare. That get flustered and extremely angry at any reasonable question I throw at them about it. That actually to question any of it is a form of sin in someway? These people will literally say the church is too White. As if whiteness itself is a big problem or a sin and that we need to repent of being white, and fix it in a room full of people who showed up to worship Jesus. Can someone explain this to me? How on earth does this make any sense from someone who is supposed to be a Christian? How did these Christians get to this place? How did a faith built on the goodness of creation, the dignity of the body, the truth that every person bears the image of God regardless of skin, end up getting SO sucked into these Leftist slogans? What I notice is that every position the Christian left holds happens to track PERFECTLY aligns with the cultural arguments of the Leftist political movement. Every single one. Trans kids. Race. Sexuality. Borders. Guns. Climate. And they'll use the Bible, in genuinely bizarre fashion and slogans to uphold these political beliefs. Like "love thy neighbor" for example, to say that illegal immigrants didn't do anything wrong. "The least of these" somehow means trans kids or something? "Turn the other cheek" somehow means that criminals should never be held accountable for crimes. It seems, and I could be wrong, that a LOT of Christians are using politics to shape their faith. Not the other way around Maybe I'm missing something. I'm willing to be wrong. But from where I'm sitting it looks FAR LESS like Christians are wrestling with hard questions and more like a version of Christianity that has agreed to push forward every argument the culture wants it to... What's going on with the Christian church??????

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@BrandiKruse @EWErickson The lesson will be repeated until the voters learn

Seattle has had deeply unserious mayors before, but there is no precedent for Mayor Katie Wilson. She came in as an East Coast nepo baby with no applicable life experience. This is a five-alarm fire. How does the city survive three years of this?

@foster_type @EWErickson Plus they are doing these invitational and second chance 🙄 but have eliminated the college and teen tournaments

Everything about Jeopardy sucks now, the questions are half logic gimmicks and word games, the contestants--which used to include housewives and shop foremen and a wide range of normie American--are now increasingly from the same narrow band of midwit masters degree dorks who all seem like they have substacks.

If @Jeopardy wonders why I stopped watching the show after being a lifelong fan, here's a big clue: The current host is a deranged political extremist who won't shut up.

The Christian principle on human worth is this: Every human being—regardless of any distinguishing classification or whether a particular human capacity is ever fully actualized—bears God's image and possesses innate, irrevocable, and immeasurable dignity. Sound social orders require a sound account of the human person so that its foundational precept—the existence of the person and the existence of the political community—is secure. One of the obligations of society, then, is to respect the nature of the human being in law. It's worth laying out first principles because when I see the modern progressive movement shift from "safe, legal, rare" to "shout your abortion," or when members of Congress demonstrate callous disregard for human life, such a shift needs to be named for what it is aiming to accomplish: The narrowing of the law's protective canopy to protect human life. Reflect on the irony of this. The modern progressive movement purportedly exists to endlessly expand "rights" for any number of identities or experiences. Yet, when it comes time to protect the one population that is literally the most voiceless and most vulnerable, modern progressivism restricts and revokes the application of legal protections to those most in need of them. That, my friends, is evidence of a deeply inconsistent and deeply crippled worldview. Christ can free you of such bankrupt thinking. But until human dignity means more to our society than the right to exercise one’s libidinous powers, or more than the encumbrances that come with caring for all human beings, our society will rest on a faulty and deadly anthropology.

and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Every time I see or hear people wish death or harm on someone I cannot help but pity them. In Matthew 12:34-37, Jesus tell us: For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good…. 1/2

@LRacheldG Congrats on the Fox News gig!

Corrine Baum has been fired. My latest ➡️ foxnews.com/media/ohio-tea…

@AndrewTWalker The best time to delete this kind of nonsense is before he tweets it, the second best time is now

It’s not too late to delete this shining example of foolishness laundered under the veneer of academic respectability.

@ErikReed @AndrewTWalker @albertmohler Bet he’s wearing a buttoned down shirt and tie under it…bow tie?

I knew @albertmohler was a hoodie guy! I knew it!! 😎

.@realDailyWire asked me to expand my analysis of the Allie Beth Stuckey-David French debate into a full column: The avowed atheist Friedrich Nietzsche would have no problem calling Talarico a non-Christian because of the orthodox doctrines that Talarico rejects. Why can’t David French? dailywire.com/news/allie-bet…

Four years ago, when I posted a video explaining why I won’t congratulate gay men who purchase babies via surrogacy, there were very, very few conservatives on my side. In fact, several called me cruel. Things are different today, and I thank the Lord for that. The tide has shifted. Let’s keep pushing! Shoutout to @Katy_Faust & @JenniferLahl who have been on this beat for years, and who educated and inspired me back in 2020 to speak up about surrogacy, IVF, & sperm/egg selling. Many don’t realize how much their work has helped shape this conversation

This is just one of many reasons why Democrats must be defeated. They'd rather see kids confused, drugged, and mutilated than raised in Christian homes.

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@conservmillen So lying is polite when he does it?

Last year, David French received backlash for calling his trans-identified male colleague, “she.” In 2018, he’d written that calling a man by female pronouns is a lie he couldn’t participate in. I asked him about this seeming change. “Do you equate calling a man who identifies as a woman “he” as being unkind?” French: “I don’t see the value in saying something that I know and they know is going to be hurtful to them. It’s just normal, complete politeness and manners.”

There is not a social ill that Christianity has failed to diagnose accurately—whether in the confusions of gender ideology, the erosion of marriage, the far-reaching harms of divorce, the rise of recreational drug use, the consequences of normalizing homosexuality, declining fertility, or the pervasiveness of pornography. The list could continue. This consistency in moral assessment is not accidental. It reflects a moral vision grounded in what is true. Which raises a deeper question: what if Christianity’s reliability in moral judgment flows from its reliability in theological judgment? Jesus is Lord. His lordship exposes and corrects every false way our world attempts to order itself. We come to recognize this either through joyful obedience or through painful regret. Yet it is never too late to turn, to repent, and to follow Him. He remains the only hope for every sinner—and every society.