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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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Look at who isn’t fighting it.

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On the Golden Rule, its exceptions, and what actually moves people to act

There is a rule so universal that it appears, in some form, in virtually every moral and religious tradition humanity has ever produced. You likely already know it:

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Or in its negative form: Do not do to others what you would not have done to you.

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On dreams, partners, and knowing the difference between someone who challenges you and someone who contains you

There’s a quote that floats around the internet like it’s ancient wisdom:

“A man with dreams needs a woman with vision.”

It gets shared with wedding photos. Printed on mugs. Cited on Goodreads as though someone important said it once, in a room full of people who immediately wrote it down.

A Biblical Examination of the Pro-Slavery Catechism from Clotel
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William Wells Brown (1853)

This document examines each claim in the catechism against the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the recorded words of Jesus. The catechism was a real genre of instruction used to teach enslaved people to accept their bondage as divinely ordained. Brown includes it in Clotel to expose its theological corruption.

The catechism reproduced in Clotel belongs to a tradition of “slave catechisms” produced in the antebellum American South. These documents selectively cited, distorted, and invented scripture to construct a theology of racial slavery. What follows examines each major claim against the full witness of the biblical text.

The catechism’s defining move is this: it imposes obligations downward and removes them upward. It quotes every passage that can be made to require submission from the enslaved, and suppresses every passage that imposes corresponding obligations on the enslaver. That asymmetry is not a reading of scripture — it is a system imposed on it.

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Why the AI writing debate is really an argument about who controls meaning — and who gets access to it

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One group are writers. For them, the struggle to find the right word is the point. The craft is inseparable from the meaning. The sentence is the thing. That’s a legitimate and serious relationship to language — and it produces work that couldn’t exist any other way.

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First, let’s acknowledge what the “be grateful” crowd is actually saying. They’re saying that the gesture — the act of booking travel, the logistical effort of producing a confirmation number — is what matters. The thought counts. He thought of her. He wanted her there. Isn’t that enough?

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A practical ethics for people who use AI and know better

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If you’re waiting for the piece about men, it may be coming. But we’re talking about women right now, because the women are the ones losing the work right now, and most of the people replacing them with AI tools know it and are doing it anyway.

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Tit for Tat Parenting
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When a threat must be credible to work as leverage, mocking people for taking it seriously isn’t strategic genius. It’s a logical contradiction — and a dangerous one.

Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion, published a piece this week at American Greatness that deserves more scrutiny than it will probably receive. Not because it’s unusual — it isn’t — but because it crystallizes a logical problem at the heart of how a certain kind of commentary has chosen to defend the current administration’s conduct in the Persian Gulf.

The piece concerns what Kimball frames as Trump’s masterstroke against Iran: a campaign of military strikes, aggressive rhetoric, and ultimately a ceasefire that Kimball presents as a historic victory. The rhetorical centerpiece of that campaign was a Truth Social post in which the President wrote, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Kimball’s argument is essentially that critics who found this alarming were performing hysteria, and that the Babylon Bee had it right: Trump was simply taking “a seemingly extreme position to negotiate the best possible deal.”

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The Villain in the Fox Hole
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On borders, belonging, and what the Bible actually says

There is a document circulating in conservative policy circles right now called the Mass Deportation Coalition Playbook. It proposes removing over one million people from the United States in a single calendar year. It recommends worksite raids, bank account freezes, and what it calls a “whole-of-government approach” to locate, detain, and expel people who entered the country without authorization or overstayed their visas.

It is a serious document, in the sense that serious people wrote it with serious intent. And it ends with a flourish that deserves serious attention: a call, as America approaches its 250th birthday, for citizens to ask themselves whether they want to “preserve America for Americans.”

I would like to apply that principle consistently. Let’s follow it where it actually leads.