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If we exist for God’s glory, then beauty has moral authority.

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08.03.2026 01:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I hope you enjoy my new book, friends. Thanks.

28.02.2026 01:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Too much disobedience is whitewashed in the guise of not wanting to be a hypocrite by doing what one doesn’t feel like doing. Doing what is commanded when you don’t feel like it isn’t hypocrisy. It’s obedience. Christian, don’t let expressive individualism fool you.

15.02.2026 15:56 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The photographic negative of real Christianity:

07.02.2026 22:52 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Make America Beautiful Again

07.02.2026 02:42 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 2

The glib moral relativism of the 60s and 70s is dead. Our fashionable nightmare is finally over. Good.

Now, can we build shared moral structures without brutalizing one another?

Only the gospel of Jesus creates morally serious people who are also humble, gentle.

05.02.2026 01:49 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Nahum 1

Yahweh is:

Jealous
Avenging
Wrathful
Patient
Powerful
Just

It’s not multiple choice.

28.01.2026 11:12 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. John 12:24

13.01.2026 13:13 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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01.01.2026 13:47 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Tolkien’s epic helped me understand the Bible more clearly — the kind of narrative it really is.

01.01.2026 01:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We love you two! You’re a blast.

01.01.2026 01:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Both solemnizing and encouraging:

30.12.2025 22:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The future of education will be written by leaders bold enough to say, ‘This isn’t working. We can do better.’”

27.12.2025 16:43 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Jane Austen’s Novels Aren’t Just Romantic Why some have regarded the writer as the last great classical ethicist.

Today is the day! It is Jane Austen’s 250th birthday and Austenites have celebrated all year long! 🎂 #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten

ICYMI, here’s my essay at The Dispatch on Austen’s legacy as a virtue ethicist:

thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

16.12.2025 13:28 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
THE BLESSING KENYA
THE BLESSING KENYA YouTube video by Kanjii

Heavenly: youtu.be/G0BppDtl3_Q?...

13.12.2025 01:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Flying home last night. Thank you, Father.

10.12.2025 00:24 👍 72 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Great game!

29.11.2025 21:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Our sacred privilege, today and every day:

27.11.2025 15:00 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do I hold strong convictions without contempt?

Conviction can feel like a battle. And we're called to a different posture. Not soft on truth, but strong in love.

18.11.2025 22:37 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files

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We Can't Ignore This for Another Decade The Screen Problem Destroying Student Learning

We say one of the purposes of schools is to teach children to think critically. So why aren’t more educators thinking critically about edtech?

open.substack.com/pub/restorec...

10.11.2025 23:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you, Dad, for your service to our country. #veteransday

11.11.2025 15:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wisdom:

03.11.2025 14:26 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh, just another great win for Ohio State football!

02.11.2025 13:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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30.10.2025 15:31 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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28.10.2025 16:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This isn’t a list of winners in the eyes of the world. It’s a map for the spiritually homeless. The politically displaced. The weary, the wondering, the ones who whisper, “Surely this isn’t how it’s supposed to be.”

27.10.2025 19:58 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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25.10.2025 21:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Christian faithfulness:

24.10.2025 01:38 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Coming out in a few months. Enjoy!

15.10.2025 15:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0