"Are you on social media? Do not delete your account. Are you off social media? Do not get an account. But if you post you do not sin, and if a person with no social media joins, she does not sin. Yet those who post will experience distress in this life, and I would spare you that."⚓️🕯️
The New Christendom has already here. And it's... a fandom. The most understated savagery you'll see this year from John Ehrett.
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Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
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Today I tackled a morally tricky but personally important issue for me: the question of culpability when it comes to mental illness and how to make amends. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/am-i-at-fa...
I wrote about Restorative Reproductive Medicine for this month's column at CT.
My verdict? It's not the cure-all some promise, but it would be better for all of medicine to be more like RRM.
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tfw ur priest is soft on crime
Here's something I wrote while I was off social media for Lent about Casey Means and how she talks like someone who just hasn't taken care of enough sick people in her career.
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Happy Easter, friends! Here are some pictures I took from the top of Mt. Kenya yesterday with my family.
I wrote about why killing people is not the same as allowing them to die and why that matters for our debates about euthanasia:
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/kill...
If you're curious to find out more about why I wrote the book and what's in it, InterVarsity Press and I cooked up a little PDF explaining what it's all about: www.ivpress.com/Media/Defaul...
My book has a cover! I wish I could share it with you right now, but unfortunately you'll have to wait until August 18, 2026. But you can preorder it now if you want.
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This is quite a post
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I wrote about vaccines, wisdom, and doing your own research for @christianitytoday.bsky.social :
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/how-...
it's funny (sad) how there is exactly one financial relationship that Basham will never, ever criticize and it involves a gay heretic
Denmark's geopolitical superpower is how even the most powerful leaders turn into happy little kids when they get a cool Lego model
me too
there have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water
if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
The authoritative reflection on It's a Wonderful Life for our time.
I wrote about how people misunderstand porn--particularly the wrongheaded notion that if a wife simply pretends to be her husband's "personal porn star" that it will cure his porn addiction:
mereorthodoxy.com/misunderstanding-porn
Merry Christmas, everyone! Please remember in your prayers Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot kidnapped in Niger back in November.
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tfw u learn about all the doctrines of grace:
Video from last week's Trinity Forum Michael Gerson Memorial Prize event is now up! (My speech is at the very end, for those curious.)
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I don't think this is going to work. The Case for Christian Nationalism is almost entirely exegesis-free; they very deliberately state that tradition/natural law is necessary to discern a coherent political theology and quite frankly, I agree with them on that!
I don't need any gender fetishism, no. I think that looking at the world and saying "who needs the most support to flourish in the world? huh, looks like 'moms' and 'small kids' are big categories there!" is more than enough for me.
yeah, I think society should be more supportive of people the more dependent they are. if that means subsidizing drugs for prostatic hypertrophy because every old man's prostate blows up eventually so that old men are less likely to get renal failure, yeah. what that says about ontology idk.
no, what gives you the impression that either Leah or I believe that?
I mean the fundamental biological reality that women are more likely over their lifetimes to require aid from people around them in order to give birth and nurture children; society should orient itself around making this process less arduous and isolating for mothers as possible.
