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Category: <span>Paradigm Shift</span>

Category: Paradigm Shift

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Is abortion the only thing that matters to Jesus?

“I have felt a heaviness in my soul lately.” by Jennifer Abel For the past couple weeks, I’ve felt it.  A weight.  The heaviness.  So this morning—when a block of time unexpectedly opened in my schedule—I closed myself in my room, read some of John’s gospel, opened my journal, and prayed, “Okay, God.  What is it?  My heart feels heavy.  I need to write.  But I don’t have words.  What is this feeling?” And I began to write:  Heartbreak.  It’s heartbreak.  And disillusionment.  I’ve been here before—so many times since 2016.  And here I am again. I keep seeing Christians …

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Would you elect—and fund—a leader with no agenda?

Alarm bells sounded this week when the Republican Party announced on the eve of their convention that, for the first time in their history, they had decided not to present a party platform.  They ruled “out of order” any attempts to adopt one and opted instead to “reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration” and to “adjourn without adopting a new platform until 2024.” Really? Racial injustice, life-threatening global warming, the Covid-19 death toll which in 6 months is  already triple the U.S. casualties from the brutal Vietnam War, millions unemployed and without healthcare, refugees …

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Why did Americans move from pro-life to pro-death?

By “pro-life” I’m not talking about the political movement but the capital-L American value that is enshrined, along with Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, in “The Declaration of Independence.” Yes, there are glaring inconsistencies—too many to list—which run antithetical to both a pro-life society and a political movement, policies and systems which negatively impact Americans’ quality of Life.  But most Americans would not willingly endanger someone else’s life. Until now. During a worldwide pandemic, millions of Americans refuse to wear masks—despite incontrovertible evidence it saves lives. HOW did we become pro-death? We succumbed to propaganda.  Before you stop reading, …

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