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I'll go back to my routes and share some thoughts on the political landscape:

-The Presidential Primary is coming into focus.

-The surprisingly real corruption concerns in the executive branch.

-Republican bad strategy (let me expand on this one below).

The people who decide elections are largely suburban dwellers in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Las Vegas, and Atlanta. Those people are largely decently high-income earners, professionals, married with 1-2 kids, irreligious, and generally open to voting for a politician of either major party.

Right now, their concerns are that their budgets are stretched despite being high income-earners (because of inflation), that they feel nervous about visiting their awesome big cities on the weekend (because of crime), and that their kids education quality is suffering.

While those are their concerns, Republicans are giving time to Hunter Biden's corruption. That corruption is real, but it's not what the voters that matter care about. They tend to assume both parties are criminal enterprises.

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REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS - I'll provide a rundown of what happened at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting and ideas/arguments undergirding those events.

JUNETEENTH -- We should celebrate this momentous day.

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We can feel the world getting darker. In previous generations we perverted and misused good things. This age seems to reject the good things outright. That can get discouraging. But I want to offer some hope and what we can do with the opportunity we've been given as the church in the US.

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There's a disturbing story about public schools moving around sexual abusers instead of firing them. My own Convention (Southern Baptists) as well as other religious groups have been found to do the same thing. We have to align consequences with this heinous action.

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There's a lot more!

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The secular progressive religion that permeates America will observe its holy month in June (Pride Month). The normalcy of celebrating those sexualities is now eerily similar to the old civic religion of cultural Christianity. Starting with prayer at a secular meeting in 1970 was considered normal; now donning the pride flag is.

It is into that world that Christians go out every day to work, learn, interact, and generally live. I want to connect that reality to how we Christians communicate with people who are so discipled by the false religions of this world.

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ISRAEL'S BLUE PRINT

This story got me thinking. Israel's Orthodox community is having a great deal of influence after decades of marginalization. That's what I want for Christianity. So, how are they doing it? They are having, fostering, adopting a TON more kids than the secularists. And then most importantly -- they're DISCIPLING those kids. If we want a Christianized culture, that's the way forward. It'll take generations of faithfully raising kids and living in alignment with what we teach them. Israel is proving that will work.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIRE TWO EMPLOYEES OVER PRONOUNS

Houghton College fired two employees for violating a policy regarding pronouns in email signatures. I'll give details and commentary on why it's good for the college to stand by its standard and why pronoun use like that isn't as loving as these people think.

POLITICS UPDATE

On this episode, Nathan Mcdowell returns to the show. We discuss which party has gotten more extreme, the connection between ideology & mental health a ton more.

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THE CORONATION

The King's coronation invigorated a lively debate happening in Christian circles right now about the Christian's relationship to government and the church's relationship to the same. I came away with some thoughts to share on that.

TED LASSO THOUGHT

I've noticed that making points instead of telling great stories has been affecting secular art a lot lately. That's how Christian art has always been. I have an example from Ted Lasso.

THE CNN TOWNHALL

I have brief thoughts to the CNN townhall with the most recent former president. That entire exercise was good for the actors involved -- and bad for just about everyone else.

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LEARNING FROM THE DIVORCE OF A PROMINENT FIGURE

The popular Steven Crowder recently announced his divorce. What followed was a hard-to-watch video of his verbally mistreating his then-8-months-pregnant-with-twins wife.

I don't want to gossip. I want to learn. What I noticed in the video is that Crowder sees marriage as transactional (if you do wife duty "A," I'll do husband duty, "B"). That's not Biblical marriage. Especially for the men, lead. No matter what effort she's putting in, lead by putting your best effort into loving your wife.

RETHINKING "CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY"

I grew up denigrating cultural Christianity because it was the appearance of Christianity without people actually following Jesus. It was rule-following, but not genuine faith. I've begun to rethink that. Cultural Christianity was DEFINITELY better than the Secular Progressive age we're in. We need to go FURTHER than cultural Christianity, but I know humans would flourish more if we lived in that system instead of this one.