Holy s—- that this is a thing shows that in all of the crap that is the world there is service and vocation and healing and grace and.... ‘cuse me I need a moment.😪
@BethMooreLPM
I’m German Lutheran with a degree in German Studies. I saw way more of *that* propaganda than anyone should like.
Commingling a political leader with the salvation of Christ was the tactic. It dripped with it.
It’s a satanic siren call.
Psalm 146:3.
@JackieHillPerry
@BethMooreLPM
@rachelheldevans
This is how Christians should rumble with each other. We rumble because it's so important to get it right, but the love for the person we rumble with remains.
We are in it together and for the same purpose. What a witness.
If you call yourself pro-life and your reaction to a jogger being shot is... I’m sure there’s some reason he deserved it... you’re the type of pro-life that embodies the worst assumptions pro-choisers have of us.
On the campaign trail, J. D. Vance regularly described himself as someone who will fight for Christian values.
“I just feel like people don’t actually have somebody that stands up and fights for them.”
I'm a door knocking Republican and bible thumping Lutheran. This tweets is 1000x worse than anything Starbucks or Target has done.
Christ👏🏻doesn't👏🏻need👏🏻help👏🏻to👏🏻be👏🏻great👏🏻"again".
Listening to
@mattklewis
rebroadcast
@TheRickWilson
reminds me of a phrase I’ve been using since 2016: what do you expect when you hitch your wagon to the crazy pony? 🤷🏻♀️
Connecticut is poised to commit its electoral votes to whichever U.S. presidential candidate wins the nation's popular vote — regardless of who wins the state.
I’ve been to Dresden as they were (still) rebuilding the cathedral and one of my relatives died in the bombing of Hamburg.
Friend, never let anyone, least of all Nazi apologists, describe it as an attack on Christians.
Ulysses S. Grant knew the principles that he and his men fought to defend—and that the ideas they believed in were even more important than the evils they were fighting against.
Be like Grant. Put principles first. Lead.
Every Lutheran I know ready to remind you that the Bible taught by government is not what any parent of any religious opinion wants their kids to learn.
OK Schools Superintendent Ryan Walters announcement today: “Every teacher, every classroom in the state, will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom.”
Originalism isn’t that we want the world to be like 1776.
It’s that we think judges can’t legislate. Only the people or their representatives.
Thx for coming to my Ted Talk.
#Figureskating
great Katarina Witt backed Russian sensation Kamila Valieva and pointed the finger at her entourage as the 15-year-old practices for her next event at the
#Beijing2020
Olympics amid reports she tested positive for a banned substance
The reason that this Lutheran Christian is so insistent upon a literal bodily resurrection of Jesus is because death is very real and that God would defeat it gives me breath.
@jsparkblog
I *very much dislike* these comments because it uses bad theology to paper over grief.
No. This wasn't supposed to happen. This is a fallen world and it's thick with shouldn't be's.
It shouldn't have been. The best comfort I know is that there's a God who thinks so too.
You gotta watch 98 (!!) year old Carl Reiner and friends call Congress to ensure older Americans can vote by mail this Fall. "Although we're dying to vote, we'd much rather just vote and not die.😅"
@robreiner
The pastor on
@NewYorker
Radio Hour.. echoing what I learned about the German faithful during the Third Reich.
There’s no one easier to control than people who are nominally Christian.
There is no one harder to control than people who believe in a living God and the Gospel.
My father died when I was 14.
My mother was a widow in her 40's.
1/3 of women become widows before they're 60, and 1/2 before they are 65.
Raising dependance on a man is not good legacy.
My daughters will go from being under my roof to under their husbands roof with nowhere else in-between.
And that is after these men are approved of.
This shouldn’t be considered controversial.
NPR played a clip from the priest of the Catholic church in Gaza.
He paraphrased Paul saying that we cannot approach God with hate in our heart including for our enemy and that Christmas is about reconciliation.
If that isn’t the simple glory and heavy burden of Christianity.
With the n—- Lutheran making splash in Rolling Stone.
I grew up in the LCMS. The congregation I grew up in South Dakota is where I learned that as a German-American and as a Christian, you fight Nazis.
They fed their kids on Bonhoeffer and the Ten Booms.
So who is head of household? Husband or wife? Do I defer to my husband who can't vote in the US because he's a non-citizen or do I get to usurp his spot.
Lots of people like Hans. He regularly treats women like crap on a public level and he doesn't seem to see the problem.
Voting should be limited to heads of household over 21 who have passed a basic civics test. Likewise household votes should be weighted according to household size.
The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048.
Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.
Juneteenth is a beautiful holiday.
There is nothing more American than recognizing the dignity of every person.
There’s nothing more patriotic to face when this Nation has fallen short of that promise and celebrate when it has done better.
The St. Louis couple who threatened to shoot blacks marching peacefully in front of their mansion are getting a starring role at next week's Republican convention (via
@jdawsey1
)
“One of the most senior U.S. intelligence officials told me that many leaders in the Intelligence Community worry that we’re on the verge of a deepfakes [artificial intelligence algorithms that create convincing fake images, audio & video] perfect storm.”
Trump doesn’t deserve to be in office.
I’m to the point that if you don’t see it, I don’t care. Because your failure to see it isn’t a reflection of him, it’s a reflection of you.
Flee from those you lie to you that your fear of anything on earth warrants harm and oppression of neighbor.
Never forget. Christ was offered the world and chose the cross.
That is our road too.
@KyleJamesHoward
@allcurledup
Germans have a method of reckoning with the Holocaust that can be summed up by saying “we can’t ‘not know’” the atrocities.
Basically the knowledge leads to a commitment to do better.
As a German-American, there’s some s—- we need to implement.
I don’t think liberals have the best solutions or govern well...
The “conservatives” who dispense with and mocked everything that made me conservative broke my heart.
And you wonder why my fire is directed in-house?
I always say you learn so much about people by where they aim their fire. Really fascinating how many self-described "conservatives" are barely able to aim any fire at all against leftist threats but go full barrel against actual conservatives. Almost pathological.
"On September 5, 1942, United States Navy Petty Officer First Class Charles Jackson French, of Omaha Nebraska, swam through the night for 6 - 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark-infested waters after the USS Gregory was hit
An abnormal amount of my youth and my undergrad degree was spent on this question.
My community raised me and I raise the next generation to say "I would". With no hesitation. Even against the threat of death.
It's the legacy of Ten Boom and Bonhoeffer
#wouldyouhideme
#iwould
I’ve been to Dresden. My husband is descended from survivors of Allied bombing.
Victims of the bombing are in my family tree.
I don’t blame the Allies.
I blame the Nazis.
If you truly care about Palestinian children, you'll be in full support of Israel obliterating Hamas. Those kids cannot live safe or healthy lives until the terrorists controlling their communities and using them as human shields are gone.
Consider joining
@Principles_1st
. We don’t know where to go from here, but something must be done by democratic, pluralistic, foundational conservatives against populist nationalism.
Listening to
@JonahRemnant
talking homelessness.
That’s were the Remnant goes. The sober people for limited government, fiscal realities, human dignity.
Roll up your sleeves. Look around you and start the work. Love your neighbor.
Was trying to read a study about Germans minimizing the extent of their fathers/grandfathers participation in the Nazi regime with Batya Levine’s luminous new album on in the background but the dissonance was too much, honestly. Too much sacred beauty for this.
When did the test of deadly force go from "imminent threat to officer or public" to "disobeying an officer".
Am I the only one seeing that some people are moving goal posts? The only one who thinks this is chilling to anyone who wants government limited and life protected?
Things I enjoy about Lutheranism.
1. Assurance of Salvation
2. Freedom in Christ
3. Beer
4. My kids bopping to AC/DC at the Volleyball game while sitting directly in from of our pastor and having zero guilt.
This.
I'm a generally local government, responsible spending, lean social conservative, who has Reagan type foreign policy and democratic institutions and rule of law are non-negotiables for me.
No qualms voting Democrat now.
Evidently, Tom Emmer -- whose nomination for House speaker was quickly torpedoed -- had two main faults: He was not an election-denier and he favored aid to Ukraine. Those are deal-killers in today's GOP. Which helps to explain why many, over the years, have left the GOP.
Wait. Was Mollie Hemingway recently profiled in a LCMS women’s publication under the headline “I’m Not Ashamed?”
Because, girl, that’s clear but like, maybe you need to be.