Correct-- which is why the better name for this isn't Just War Theory but rather Justifiable War Principles.
The issue is whether and if so penance can be granted at the end. If the war is not justifiable, whatever penance is grantable will also be necessarily substantial.
I didn't watch. Wrote three sermons instead (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter).
An update from 20 years ago... The older one identifies now as an atheist, and their job with the health department is all about getting justice for poor people. The younger builds organs for churches and is very active in his local Episcopal church.
The non-drowsy ones are the worst for this. The drowsy ones are better-- you can work through the drowsiness and it offsets the anxiety. Walgreens Cold and Allergy D (formerly called Wal-Act, the original formula of Actifed-- behind the counter) works for me when needed.
That is, marginalization and inequity.
I hate the word resilience. It's humanistic speak for works righteousness. Both are illusions created to justify marginalization in inequity.
My wife's church has a museum curator among its members who provides the artwork for Advent, Christmastide, Holy Week, and Easter. So you might look for not just living artists, but museum curators, to assist with this sort of thing.
According to the scriptures, God is doing this very thing now, and however Christ finally judges such for entities as nations and corporations in the age to come, may do so again.
This is beautiful and faithful, Joseph. Thank you for sharing it here.
My spouse was associate rector at Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis in the early 00s. Brian told her in Charlotte how important the parents group she organized (which was doing exactly this) while she was associate rector there was for the parents he interviewed there.
He authorized it. He will take exaggerated credit for anything it accomplishes. He will assign blame for anything that goes awry. He will take no responsibility for providing a plan-- that will be Hegseth and the military leaders.
This is an abdication of the core duties of a commander in chief.
Unless you are Jewish, most of them might want to get you saved before the Rapture happens. Because after that, it's too late. But if you're Jewish and in Israel, you are just an instrument in God's hand to bring about The End. Some might want to convert you, but not too many of you to stop things.
It's all about cruelty, racism, xenophobia, and suppression of free speech.
As for me, an Emily Dickenson poem comes to mind, especially the last line: "Orpheus' tale captivated-- it did not condemn."
I watched the TPUSA one today, and I was just sad. It portrayed "The Bible is an antique Volume-- written by faded men..."
allpoetry.com/The-Bible-is... 2/2
So I asked my students today to compare the halftime shows. They said both felt like worship, one a diverse fiesta, the other a contemporary white megachurch. One was about joy, solidarity, oppression and hope. The other: sin and maybe (?) redemption. One a spectacle; the other, a concert. 1/2
It's a fascinating story, well-told.
This is the official position of The United Methodist Church on migration in the US:
www.umc.org/en/content/b...
This isn't partisan. It's biblical. It was initially approved in 2008 (during a Republican presidency), then amended and renewed in 2016 and 2024 (during Democratic presidencies).
A small uptick in average monthly church attendance by churchgoing males in a 2025 Barna report was used to claim a major GenZ revival (nope). A new Barna report finds lower rates of pastors wanting to quit: (www.barna.com/trends/pasto...). So now some will claim there's a revival among clergy?
Can't take the Methodist out of the Episcopalian... or the Lutheran!
Glad the diocese and the church did this. Part time is enough to maintain a congregation and keep holding services-- and that matters, and especially mattered during the pandemic. It's not enough to grow a parish substantially.
It was nigh unto impossible to find decaf in Alaska. If available you had to beg for it.
Not a smart move, or the actual plan?
It's all about the posturing.
Or, as they like to call it when we do it, virtue signalling.
Or, as we like to call it when they do it, dog whistling.
Times New Roman is ugly and hard for anyone to read well.
So glad Bluesky doesn't use a serif font!
Only in Year C.
Has anyone, ever, though? Max might be about the closest, as anxiety-inducing as her situation is.
Thank you.
I also hate how people are instead regularly called consumers.
We know where this language comes from and what values that reflects.
I can tell you most Christian denominations that have addressed this have said LDS folk have not received Christian baptism. Therefore, we offer converting LDS folk Christian baptism, not rebaptism. United Methodists and the LDS agreed that they do not recognize each other's baptisms as Christian.
Whence this graph? And how are cases even being counted now that the CDC is tracking data only via wastewater now, which they say may (not does) predict risk, not actual case counts?
When you've spent a lot of money to get a bigger piece of land and then to get some kind of utilities connected to it, well, you're likely to defend this as better. Even if it's not. Sort of El Mystico and Janet Sketch in reverse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujR...
Usage certainly connects them in American English. I don't think it does in the same way in other languages. Other English speakers tend to use physician or surgeon rather than doctor for an MD.