All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.
Hal Borland
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No need to pick a side, read both points of view and think what would God have you do?
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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate, Harper's
Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts.
But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second.
The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally...read more
| Cancel Culture is Not the Problem, L.A. Times
Here’s how you know that satire is an elemental force of the universe: Even as many were celebrating the firing of the “I feel threatened” guy — a Florida man made infamous by a widely circulated video of him screaming threats at a woman who had asked him to wear a mask in Costco (which requires masks) — Harper’s magazine published an open letter, signed by many famous and well-respected people, criticizing progressives for, among other things, creating “a
vogue for public shaming and ostracism” that has led to folks being fired.
In other words, a call to cancel cancel culture. OK, boomer. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
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MY DAD HAS COVID
Please pray for my father. My father is in the still in the hospital on a ventilator due to COVID. There is worry that his liver could be failing. The doctors are still unsure on what may be occurring. I continue to ask for prayers to help him in this time to continue to push him, both spiritually and mentally. I have been trying to continue to be positive but it is harder as the days go. I pray that things improve, and that he comes home to be with us, his family. I thank God for everything
he has blessed me with, and all opportunities he has given me.
- michael
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