From the difficult-to-watch documentary (available on Netflix), One Child Nation. So profoundly sad and sobering.
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
(Romans 2:14–15 ESV)
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, by Jonathan Rauch (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021).I have such mixed feelings about this book. I so much want so much of it to be true and right. I hold a minority worldview in my society;...
Turn to Matthew 22 please. We’re going to read Jesus’ love commands like we did yesterday: love God and neighbor. If you can’t find this passage, you probably have the Political Partisan Study Bible. You might have to look on with your neighbor. Now as you turn, guest...
Intro Turn to Matthew 22:34, and some of the most familiar but important words of the New Testament. In honor of my own infotainment documentary tonight, I’ll be reading from the 1611 King James Version. But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees...
Robert E. Lee: A Life, by Allen C. Guelzo.Complicating current efforts to remove any monuments honoring Robert E. Lee, there was a genuine nobility in the man that everyone—his friends, foreign journalists, even his Northern abolitionist opponents—often recognized....
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Lacey and I just watched this last month. I felt ashamed at my ignorance of the whole thing.
They had reasons for not wanting the world to be as aware as the documentary makes us.
I remember as a teen learning of the child sacrifice to Moloch and thinking how barbaric some dark ancient cultures were. Blind, wicked people.
But understanding what is really going on today, around the world or in my own hometown, to the gods of government, self, and convenience: it’s too awful to comprehend. I hope this cannot go on for more years until history justly despises us.
Dear God, send the Redeemer!