The Liturgist said:

Aside from St. Cleopa who I did not encounter until later I was surprised by the amount of overlap in what we read.

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The Church thinks that Yoga is not acceptable for Christians.

5'8". I wish I were taller, but I'm taller than both parents, so I can't complain.

DOJ’s misconduct complaint dismissed against judge in Alien Enemies Act case​

The Justice Department accused Judge James Boasberg of making prejudicial comments about Trump, but a judge for the Sixth Circuit said such comments are normal.

In his newly released dismissal of the misconduct complaint, Jeffrey Sutton, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, said that the DOJ failed to provide sufficient evidence of Boasberg’s supposedly prejudicial statements and noted that such conversations between judges are normal during this kind of event. Sutton’s decision was issued Dec. 19.

“A key point of the Judicial Conference and the related meetings is to facilitate candid conversations about judicial administration among leaders of the federal judiciary about matters of common concern,” Sutton wrote. “In these settings, a judge’s expression of anxiety about executive-branch compliance with judicial orders, whether rightly feared or not, is not so far afield from customary topics at these meetings.”

Juan Brown breaks down the NTSB's video simulations from the helicopter and the jet....

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Trump says Kennedy Center is closing for 2 years for 'complete rebuilding'​

"The Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex. Financing is completed, and fully in place!" Trump wrote on his social media platform.

In February 2025, Trump fired multiple members from the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees and became its chairman. Several of his administration officials were then installed as board members -- including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, second lady Usha Vance, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor.

Trump announced in December that the board at the Kennedy Center had voted "unanimously" to rename the building the "Trump-Kennedy Center."

Despite Leavitt and Trump's claims that he has rescued the building financially, the Washington Post reported in late October that ticket sales have plummeted since Trump’s takeover.

Several high-profile artists and shows have canceled appearances at the venue since Trump became its leader, including actress Issa Rae and the Broadway show "Hamilton."

Trump says Kennedy Center is closing for 2 years for 'complete rebuilding'

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will be temporarily closing entertainment operations at the Kennedy Center for "approximately" two years.

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Michie said:

What we need and what we get after someone is elected is two different things. Look at the history of politics, nothing has changed. Trump will be president till his second term is over. I’m not going to waste time or energy with the obsession with him as far as that is concerned. When people do, it makes everyone look crazy all around. There are just better ways to handle things. Right now, it looks like the inmates are running the asylum.

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Yup. Both sides of the asylum.

SabbathBlessings said:

No, but not everyone believes and we are plainly told unbelief, sin, disobedience and rebellion are all interchangeable Heb3:7-19

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The ones that don’t believe do not enter Jesus rest. It is that simple. All of us sin, all of us are disobedient, but those that believe have an advocate in Jesus.

“If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

You are adding works to the salvation by faith formula so you are preaching a faith plus works salvation. Good luck saving yourself.

Is it hemp, cannabis or marijuana?

That depends on who's discussing the enigmatic plant that's legal in some forms (for now) but faces new restrictions in other forms this fall.

The confusion comes as no surprise to Nick Johnson, author of the book Grass Roots, which looks at the history of the cannabis plant and its use as both an industrial material and a drug.


"It's one of the world's oldest domesticated crops," Johnson says of cannabis. "And it's also incredibly cryptic. We still do not understand everything about its biology and why it does the things it does, how it creates the compounds and molecules it does."

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Lauren_ said:

Test all things by being a good Berean we should always use Scripture as our authority. I think things can get confusing when we use outside books to introduce new teachings if we feel God is silent. God isn't silent we have his Bible to speak directly to our hearts. Just read it several hours a day and you notice a big difference. God bless.

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But God didn't just give the Bible for the edification of his Church, he also gave teachers according to Ephesians 4:11-16, also for the reason that you implied, that we may be "no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine".

So we shouldn't think of either having the Bible or teachers when we ought to have both! However, as a good Berean, as you wrote, we must test every teaching with the Bible.

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Say it aint so said:

No doubt.

At some of the town-halls Dems are hearing that disappointment live and in person with strong choruses of "do something". What's the reasoning? If you read the polling (HERE) since the OP doesn't provide the actual polls. It's Dems not happy with the Democratic party, as the party is too fixated on "protocols" "parliamentary rules" and "tradition" while the GOP have jettisoned that long ago and are just taking a flame thrower to democracy.

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Given how 2025 has gone with Dems frankly over performing and winning districts that Trump had won by double digit points, again the reason why Dems had such poor polling. The reasons why I laid out above were, and are still true. It is about "do something" and apparently no one wants what the GOP are currently doing, even in red districts.

In the shadow of a bitterly cold winter, Punxsutawney Phil has made his prediction: more winter.

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Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025.

The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year.

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn't schedule the first round of voting until November.

Abbott had argued that Houston officials needed the six months between Turner's death and the first round of voting to prepare for the special election, but Democrats criticized the long wait as a move designed to give the GOP a slightly bigger cushion in the House for difficult votes.

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You must be mistaken as I have been assured on more than one occasion that the Democratic Party is thoroughly despised and in steep decline.

All Praise & Thanks to Jesus Christ for ensuring that India would Stop buying Russian oil so that Russia will have less money for war against Ukraine:

Advice for a Dad Facing His Daughter’s Live-In Boyfriend​

A RECENT CALLER to my daily radio showposed an important question about something I have some experience with. He asked my advice on how to handle a situation in which the guy his daughter is shacking up with is gearing up to ask permission to ask for her hand in marriage.

Aside from the cohabiting part, which I didn’t apply to any of my five lovely daughters, I did indeed have “the talk” with all five of the men who asked for their hands in marriage. I raked each of them over the coals in a friendly and polite but very direct way because, as my daughters’ father, I am the man who stands between them and any guy who might want to marry them. To borrow a slightly modified line from Charlton Heston’s rancher character Henry Hooker in the movie Tombstone:

“Don’t worry. They want her, they gotta go over me first.”

There’s much more I could have said, but time constraints are always a consideration on live radio. Here’s my verbatim conversation with the caller, Jim:

Jim:
So tomorrow my wife and I are meeting with my daughter’s boyfriend, and I am quite sure he is going to be asking for her hand in marriage.

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Hans Blaster said:

You're going to trust a *woman* to tell you that?

So their calling it "conservativism" this time? Last time it was "socialism". Go figure.

According to Ms. Andrews, which is less reliable: The woman or the AI rewriting her words? That's a tough one.

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Well, at least when Musk's AI company (xAI) was started in 2023 it was made up entirely of men.

I guess that means it is totally infallible right?

I’ve posted a ton of crap too, some here on CF, a lot elsewhere. You can post still if you’d like to.

Apparently, this was a special election which notoriously have low turnouts. Another election comes in November. They'll have to do it all over again then.

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Analogical imagination is
a cognitive and theological approach that understands new, complex, or divine concepts by drawing parallels to familiar, earthly experiences, recognizing "similarities-in-difference". Popularized by theologian David Tracy, it uses existing knowledge and cultural "classics" to interpret reality, preventing thought from collapsing into strict, rigid definitions or chaotic confusion.

Hillary speaks, but she doesn’t listen. She half-absorbs events and the lives of other people, and coughs out a kind of instinctive Reader’s Digest annotated version, but mangles all the details as efficiently as bad AI.

If Michael Kelly can rise from the grave, this will be the week. He’s been summoned.

Kelly was the most relentlessly savage chronicler of the Clinton administration, and of the Clintons personally, but his opening shot was so subtle you had to squint to see what he was doing. In a long feature story that appeared in The New York Times Magazine in May of 1993 under the that’s-not-a-compliment title “Saint Hillary,” Kelly very quietly mocked Hillary as a preening know-it-all who didn’t know much of anything.

He wrote that she represented “the message of the preacher,” with a way of speaking that delivered a stream of moral lectures, as if she had the authority and the wisdom to direct others in the act of moral reconstruction. If you click on the link and read the whole story, you’ll want to watch for the transitional paragraph, the switch from mostly description to mostly derision. It begins with the words, “It is at this point that some awkward questions arise.” Next paragraph: “If it is necessary to remake society, why should Hillary Rodham Clinton get the job?”

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His painting of Jesus is my favorite Rembrandt painting, but I like this one a lot too (Belshazzar’s Feast)