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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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You Don’t Get to be Uncomfortable About Women’s Health
Mar 5, 2026

An argument for professional accountability in pastoral and leadership roles

A recent post from Christianity Today made the rounds with a well-meaning message for spiritual leaders: addressing women’s health issues might feel uncomfortable, especially if you’re not a woman yourself — but every time you avoid it, you miss a chance to show God’s love. It was framed as an encouragement. A gentle nudge toward growth.

But there’s a problem with that framing. A serious one.

Treating discomfort around women’s health as a relatable quirk to work through doesn’t encourage growth. It normalizes a failure of professionalism that, in any other context, we would recognize as a red flag.

Praying in Public, Ignoring the Poor: The False Christianity of Persecution Politics
Mar 3, 2026

When India’s Allahabad High Court ruled in January 2026 that no government permission is required to conduct prayer meetings on private premises, it delivered a judgment that was constitutionally sound, theologically appropriate — and quietly devastating to a certain kind of persecution narrative.

When India’s Allahabad High Court ruled in January 2026 that no government permission is required to conduct prayer meetings on private premises, it delivered a judgment that was constitutionally sound, theologically appropriate — and quietly devastating to a certain kind of persecution narrative.

The court was clear: private worship is fully protected under Article 25 of India’s Constitution. What is not automatically guaranteed is the right to extend that worship onto public roads and public property without prior notice to authorities. The ruling drew a simple, reasonable line — and in doing so, exposed a more uncomfortable one: the line between genuine religious persecution and the grievance of losing public dominance.

That distinction matters enormously, not just in India but in the United States, where Christianity has become increasingly weaponized as a political identity — and where the loudest voices claiming persecution are often the least engaged with what Christianity actually demands of its followers.

When the Businessman Goes to War
Mar 3, 2026

How the Trump administration bypassed Congress, bent international law, and set a precedent that may outlast this presidency.

There was no address to the nation. No prime-time speech. No solemn walk to the podium. Instead, on a February evening, the President of the United States announced that American forces had struck Iran — in coordination with Israel — with an eight-minute post on Truth Social. Bombs had already fallen. People were already dead.

This is what it looks like when a businessman goes to war: fast, transactional, and with little apparent concern for the constitutional architecture designed to make such decisions slow by intention.

What followed — the legal justifications, the congressional responses, the international condemnation — tells us something important not just about this moment, but about where American democracy and global order may be heading.

How COVID Tech Is Curing Cancer
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(Or: Who’s Getting “More Stupider” Now?)

I grew up hearing the playground rhyme:

Girls go to college To get more knowledge Boys go to Jupiter To get more stupider.

It was harmless nonsense. A sing-song jab. Nobody cried about educational collapse because of it.

The Day the Order Collapsed
The Day the Order Collapsed
Mar 3, 2026

Verse 1

Verse 1

If Deborah speaks, the sky will crack,
The stars will fall and not come back,
The moon will blush, the sun will flee,
This ain’t how it was meant to be
If Priscilla explains the Word,
Heaven trembles, so I’ve heard,
The throne of God might shift an inch—
We simply can’t take that risk.

Pre-Chorus

AI Isn’t the Problem.
Mar 2, 2026

Shrinking Vision Is.

There’s a difference between using technology to expand your mission and using technology to protect your margins.

And readers can tell the difference.

When a struggling local newsroom experiments with AI to survive, most people understand the pressure. Journalism’s business model has been collapsing for twenty years. Ad revenue evaporated. Classifieds moved online. Facebook swallowed distribution. The pie shrank.

The Burden We Built Ourselves
Mar 2, 2026

When “We Don’t Know” Is a Weight God Never Gave Us

Someone you loved has died.

Maybe they went to church their whole life and drifted in the last decade. Maybe they never went at all. Maybe they said things in their final years that made you wonder. Maybe they were angry at God, or angry at the church, or just — quiet. Unreachable on the subject.

And now they’re gone, and you are standing in the middle of your grief carrying a question you didn’t ask for:

Ma’am, Your Husband Is Bored and Catty
Mar 2, 2026

On adult friendships, ego bruises, and why not every drift requires a war

Two women can grow tired of each other without it becoming a moral indictment.

This used to be common knowledge.

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You realize the group dynamic feels competitive.
You notice you don’t leave gatherings feeling better.

We Made This Bed: America, Iran, and the History We Choose to Forget
Mar 2, 2026

The United States is bombing a theocracy that American foreign policy helped create. The children dying in the rubble deserve a more honest accounting of how we got here.

On Saturday morning, as Iranian schoolgirls between the ages of seven and twelve sat in their classrooms at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, a missile reduced their building to rubble. Iranian state media reported a death toll approaching 165 children. The U.S. and Israel said they were checking into the reports. The school, it emerged, was near an IRGC naval base — as if proximity to a military target might eventually explain away the screaming in the footage that human rights organizations have already verified.

On the same day, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — the man who had ruled Iran for 36 years, overseeing executions of gay men, the brutal suppression of the 2022 women’s uprising, and the imprisonment of journalists, artists, and reformers — was killed in the joint U.S.-Israeli strike. His daughter, grandchild, and son-in-law died alongside him. Iran declared 40 days of mourning. Across social media, Iranians who had suffered under his rule wept with relief.

Both of these things are true at once. That is the nature of this moment, and the reason it demands more honesty than most public commentary is currently offering.

You Need a Hobby
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Emotional maturity means being able to share space without consuming each other

A woman recently shared that she had read five books in ten years.

Not because she was busy. Not because she had children. Not because she lacked interest.

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Ash Wednesday Isn't Real
Ash Wednesday Isn't Real
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And neither is Monday. So here's what they're actually for.

Every year, around this time, the internet rediscovers that Ash Wednesday “isn’t in the Bible.” Someone makes a graphic. Red X marks appear. Matthew gets misquoted. And a thousand Christians who just came from a Wednesday morning service wipe the smudge off their foreheads and scroll past it.

They’re not wrong, exactly — the critics. Ash Wednesday isn’t commanded in the New Testament. Neither is the word “Trinity.” Neither is the practice of singing hymns in four-part harmony, or having a church building with pews, or calling the person who leads your congregation a “pastor.” Many of the forms through which Christians practice their faith are not found in explicit biblical legislation. That’s kind of the point.

The Person in the Ditch
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There is a detail in the parable of the Good Samaritan that we almost always overlook.

There is a detail in the parable of the Good Samaritan that we almost always overlook.

We spend a lot of time on the Samaritan — his ethnicity, his surprising compassion, the scandal of his goodness in a story told by a Jewish teacher to a Jewish audience. We spend time on the priest and the Levite, parsing why they crossed to the other side of the road. We spend time on the theological question the parable was answering: who counts as my neighbor?

What we almost never spend time on is the man in the ditch.

The Parable Standard
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Jesus never asked “did this happen?” He asked “which one was the neighbor?” We need that question more than ever.

There’s a moment Hank Green describes — almost in passing — that might be the most honest thing anyone has said about living right now.

He’s talking about deepfakes, and he says: “I’ve seen videos that I thought were real. And I didn’t even ever find out that they weren’t real. I watched it, I thought it was real, and I moved on with my day.”

No dramatic correction. No fact-check that arrived in time. Just a false thing, received as true, folded quietly into his picture of the world. He moved on. So did you, probably. So did I.

Don’t Back Up Into That Space
Don’t Back Up Into That Space
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Parking advice, design asymmetry, and the strange rise of tactical grocery shopping

There’s a piece of modern driving wisdom that gets repeated with near-religious confidence:

“Always back into a parking space. It’s safer.”

The argument sounds airtight.
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Better visibility. Faster exit. Tactical readiness.

Have You Listened to Your Wife and Fed the Baby?
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Leadership is hard.

Anyone who has led a church, a business, a ministry, a classroom, a household, or even a team of two people knows the weight of decisions. The anxiety can be suffocating. We want to do the right thing. We want to follow God’s will. We don’t want to ruin the plan. So we pray:

“Lord, what do You want me to do?”

That sounds spiritual. It sounds humble. It sounds faithful.

Repentance, Hockey, and the Use of Daughters as PR Shields
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When the U.S.

When the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team laughed as President Trump joked that he would need to invite the women’s team too “or I’ll probably be impeached,” many people felt something instinctively.

Both teams won gold.
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Both represented the country.

But in that moment, the women were framed as politically inconvenient — and the men laughed.

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Provision precedes vision.

Before I started setting money aside intentionally, I had no idea what I would do with it.

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Bills.
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Small comforts.
Future contingencies.

And when you live at that edge — even comfortably — imagination narrows. Your thinking becomes reactive. You manage, you optimize, you respond. But you don’t build.