“This is shocking. It violates the most elementary notions of civil society. Civil society grants the church autonomy in ritual, belief, and practice — up to the limits of criminality.” —Dr. Charles Krauthammer Continue reading
“I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.” Continue reading
Toby Sumpter will act like a 12-year-old who needs his diaper changed for as long as people give him attention. Therefore, it behooves everyone to ignore him. Cut off his supply. This won’t make him grow up, but it will make him find another string on his banjo. Continue reading
Absolute power. Continue reading
“All of the evidence that we have is that the slaves were extremely unhappy. The vast majority of the slaves wanted out and when they had the chance they got out.” —IRA BERLIN, award-winning author and professor at the University of Maryland Continue reading
Original story here. Continue reading
“If we ought to forget a war which has filled our land with widows and orphans; which has made stumps of men of the very flower of our youth; which has sent them on the journey of life armless, legless, maimed and mutilated; which has piled up a debt heavier than a mountain of gold, swept uncounted thousands of men into bloody graves and planted agony at a million hearthstones — I say, if this war is to be forgotten, I ask, in the name of all things sacred, what shall men remember?”
“Jesus mocks hypocrites, and he particularly hates how they miscarry justice, straining out gnats while swallowing camels.” —Toby Sumpter
Steven Sitler’s son unavailable for comment. Continue reading
It is NOT AN APOLOGY if you can’t identify what was done wrong and the consequences that resulted. Stop saying you are “sorry it happened”. Apologize for what your people did that LET IT happen. With specificity. MSU. USAG. USOC. #Churchtoo.https://t.co/iTietyTeHH
— Rachael Denhollander (@R_Denhollander) May 25, 2018
These men know (and can prove) that Mr. Jones, from his place of work, accessed a website (let us call it Bikini Bimbos.com), and was on that web site for 45 seconds. And so the data wonk says, “J’accuse.” Left out is the fact that he did so because Mrs. Jones, having just caught their Billy on the same site at their home computer, called her husband, and asked him to see how bad it was. Or contrariwise, remembering the condition our world is in, Mr. Jones might have just been sinning.
Douglas Wilson
When working with any Christian leader who has abused power restoration should not be the goal or even on the table. The long, hard work of life-changing repentance is what matters.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) April 13, 2018
True repentance means being more concerned for the offended one rather than the self.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) May 11, 2018
Bonus track: “Man of Peace” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdLpYdiYrU
