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Sanctuary Cities vs. Biblical Refuge

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This analysis compares the Old Testament’s cities of refuge — a divinely mandated legal system providing conditional asylum for those accused of accidental manslaughter — with Operation Midway Blitz, a 2025 federal immigration enforcement action in Chicago that employed military-style tactics to target undocumented individuals. While the ancient framework prioritized individual due process, public adjudication of intent, and equal protection under law, the modern operation emphasized demographic targeting and collective enforcement, resulting in mass detentions that included U.S. citizens alongside only two confirmed gang members. The comparison reveals a fundamental tension between process-centric justice rooted in individual culpability and outcome-driven enforcement that prioritizes administrative efficiency over individualized rights.

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So You’re Saying the Newman Effect Poisons Our Conversations?

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The “Newman Effect,” named after a viral 2018 interview exchange, describes the rhetorical tactic of misrepresenting someone’s position by starting with “So you’re saying…” to create easily attackable strawman arguments rather than engaging with their actual points. This communication breakdown stems from psychological biases, emotional triggers, and our tendency to seek moral superiority by demonizing opponents rather than pursuing genuine understanding. The antidote is “steel-manning” — deliberately engaging with the strongest version of opposing arguments to foster productive dialogue and collaborative truth-seeking instead of adversarial point-scoring.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Restoring Responsible Citizenship

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, once a prominent New Atheist who criticized Islam, announced her conversion to Christianity in 2023, marking a significant shift from her Muslim background through atheism to embracing Christian morality as essential for Western nation-states. In her recent ARC conference speech in London, she argued that Europe’s societal stability relies on Christianity as its “operating system,” warning that secularism’s push against it has destabilized the West, and she drew on biblical principles to highlight how Christian ethics underpin democracy, human rights, and good governance.

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Big Questions About Jesus Death and Resurrection

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Some people are not afraid to ask big questions about Jesus death and resurrection. Joe Rogan recently interviewed Wesley Huff for his podcast. Joe and Wesley discuss the historical evidence for Jesus’s resurrection. Rogan questions the validity of resurrection claims, while Huff approaches the topic as a historian. Huff points out that 400 people saw the resurrected Jesus, according to Paul’s writings in 1 Corinthians 15. He emphasizes that the gospels were written during the lifetime of eyewitnesses who could verify or deny these claims.

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Father Abraham sits near a colorful sand castle, under a brilliant night sky, contemplating the millions of stars, and millions of grains of sand.

Sands of Time Soliloquy

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Sands of Time Soliloquy – Background What is this sands of time soliloquy about? Last week I was talking to myself on Facebook, about the phrase “sands of time”, and more specifically “the sands of time are sinking”. No one responded, so I made a few more comments on that thread myself. The Meta/Facebook algorithm

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Princeton Seminary Students Ask For Reparations For School’s Role in Slavery.

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Quotes from an article by Sarah Pulliam Bailey — Princeton seminary students are asking for reparations for school’s role in slavery: “Princeton Theological Seminary last year released a report describing its founders’ and early faculty’s ties to slavery. Now, some of its students want the school to take it a step further and provide reparations

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