A conservative magazine at Harvard University was suspended by its board of directors Sunday amid scrutiny over an article published in September that closely resembled the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler.

In its September print issue, the Harvard Salient published an article by student David F.X. Army that read “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans,” echoing the words Hitler used in a January 1939 speech to the Reichstag in which he forecasted that another world war would lead to the annihilation of Jews.

The Harvard Salient piece also argued that “Islam et al. has absolutely no place in Western Europe,” and called for a return to values “rooted in blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own.” (The phrase “blood and soil” also echoes a Nazi idea that the inherent features of a people are its land and race.)

The school’s mainstream student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, published three opinionpieces criticizing the rhetoric used in the Salient piece, to which [Salient's editor in chief] Rodgers published his own article last week lamenting that “ordinary conservative thought is one headline away from criminality.”

To Tip or Not to Tip.... That is the question.... It used to be that full service restaurants would provide the little place on the receipt for a tip. In which I have no problem with. These days people are asking for tips in basic fast food restaurants where you have to wait in a line for food and then seat yourself. At what point should one tip?

In a video of a sermon he gave, Yosef claims that the messiah will come in 15 years and that 200 years after that, the world will end.

I thought YEC in Judaism was relatively rare. I mean this one guy doesn't make it common, but if his party is behind that, it represents about a tenth of the knesset.

I know this guy. We're not really friends, but we're very friendly with each other. We see each other fairly often in social settings, but in about 10 years there's only been 5 or 6 times when we were alone together.

Five or six years ago, in conversation I happened to mention to him that I enjoy watching the Little League World Series. I told him that I like youth sports better than professional or college, because there's no money involved, and I feel like kids are playing a game for fun as you should. He then mentioned that his young son had started playing (American) football. I said something to the effect of "I'd love to see that" or "can I watch him play sometime?" I don't recall what was said next, but nothing came of it for over five years.

Fast forward to last week. We were talking about whatever, and I asked him if his son was still playing. The son is in the 8 to 12 age range, I estimate. He said yes, he's got a game coming up. I asked "Could I come watch?", and he gave me what I felt was a very strange and insulting response.

He just said no. I asked why not. He said "you're not family" and then added "but you can hang around us here" (here meaning where we often socialize with others usually including his wife and kids).

I should also mention that years ago, I was riding in his car when we needed to go to his house to pick some things up. He parked on a crossroad near his street, and had his petite wife walk down the sidewalk carrying the items. I thought that was strange. Did he not want me to know which house he lives in?

Am I being weird or is he? I have zero interest in "hanging around" his family, and have never said or done anything to indicate that I do, other than asking about watching his son play ball. I've spoken very briefly with his wife a couple of times, but I've never said a single word to any of his children, not even a "hi". I don't even remember his two girls' names.

Was it weird of me to ask to go watch his son play? Or is he weird for treating an innocuous request as if I'm a pedophile or stalker or something?

President Donald Trump is taking action against Nigeria to combat the ongoing Islamist persecution of Christians in the west African country.

Trump announced Friday he is designating Nigeria a “country of particular concern” and urged Republican lawmakers to take further action to address the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria.

“Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a ‘COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN,'” Trump posted on Truth Social.

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I listen to Hillsong now and again, and my conclusion, for the most part their stuff doesn't seem a lot better or worse than older songs and choruses. I think most of it fits into the songs and chorus category rather than Hymns. But on the whole I think many of these contemporary songs are not a lot different from older ones lyrically in what they express.

Here's an example

From Hillsong: Jesus, I need you

Jesus, I need you
Every moment I need you
Hear now this grace bought heart sing out your praise forever
...

Remember Love, Remember Mercy
Christ before me, Christ behind me
Your loving kindness has never failed me
Christ before me, Christ behind me

There's a couple of verses, but these are the lines that often are repeated.



Now an oldie: I Need Thee Every Hour


There's five verses, but as you can see theres a lot of similiarity between it and Hillsong's: Jesus, I need you, in some of the lyrics

I need Thee ev'ry hour,
most gracious Lord;
no tender voice like Thine
can peace afford.

Refrain:
I need Thee, O I need Thee;
ev'ry hour I need Thee;
O bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee.





I think Hillsong worship and a lot of contemporary worship songs can be a bit derivative at times of older songs.

The other thing I have heard some ministers criticising Hillsong Church, and even calling it a false church (which is quite strong language), and saying churches should not use their songs, cause they have to pay for that and would be giving money to a false church.

I've never been to Hillsongs Church, but churches in any denomination and none, can be in various spiritual conditions right?, varying degrees of doctrinal correctness or incorrectness, and maturity or immaturity? So I think this "false church" language needs to be used with care.

Having watched some Hillsong stuff on Youtube however I am wondering if there are sermons or preaching at their services, or is it all singing? It seems to revolve a lot around singing, with the worship leaders sometimes sharing a few words in between songs, and sometimes a verse or two of scripture, but is there ever a sermon, or homily or anything more? Do they have communion services?

with the whole mess with SNAP benefits should there be anything food wise that cannot be purchased? How strict should it be?

I feel that no soft drinks nor pure junk food cookies, snack cakes ECT should be able to be purchased I do not believe, as I have seen at least one person say that everything boxed and certainly not everything canned should be off limits which if we really wanted to get super strict about junk food they would be.

St. Martin de Porres, who was led to heavenly glory by the path of humility, offered great comfort to my mother during some of the darkest moments of her life.

My mother, Gerardine Ann Frawley, a former publisher of the Register, was just 21 when she began her life-long devotion to St. Martin de Porres. And though the 17th-century mixed-race Dominican from Peru and the Canadian-born child of Irish immigrants would appear to have little in common, St. Martin offered “Gerry” great comfort during some of the darkest moments of her life.

The story begins in 1945. Gerry had just delivered her first child, Frances, in California. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, she had married my father, Patrick, toward the end of the Second World War, and the two were on their way to Nicaragua, where he would be working for his father, a successful British businessman.

But the young couple’s plans imploded when Gerry was diagnosed with active tuberculosis.

At the time, the medical community had yet to confirm the best medicines for treatment of this infectious disease. As a result, a TB diagnosis was a very serious matter, and could be a death sentence for some patients.

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WASHINGTON — National security consultant and conservative media personality Sebastian Gorka, who now serves as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism, suggests that Trump's response to his assassination attempt last year was "Christ-like" and an example of "self-sacrifice."

Gorka addressed a special Conservative Political Action Conference Summit on Ending Christian Persecution at the Kennedy Center on Thursday. His remarks focused on what he characterized as "the real moment" when Trump won the 2024 presidential election.

Gorka recalled how, while Trump was serving at the drive-thru at a Pennsylvania McDonald's in the weeks leading up to the election, he encountered an Asian immigrant who told him, "Thank you for doing everything you do for nobodies like us." He detailed how the then-presidential candidate responded by assuring him, "No one in America is a nobody."

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A United Kingdom-based developer has created a website that purportedly demonstrates how the Bible can be used to support two contradictory views on moral issues.

Created by developer Jon James, the "Bible Both Ways" website, which launched mid-October, gives users the chance to submit a moral or ethical question and then, according to the site's premise, generates two contradictory responses found in the pages of Scripture.

It works like any standard online search engine: type in your prompt, click the "Get Both Sides" button, and find out how, according to the site, "Scripture can be interpreted to support different perspectives on moral questions."

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Heavenly Father, God of truth and mercy, thou knowest the thoughts of all and knowest our necessities; in Thy boundless love, grant unto those souls wrestling with the late tidings within the Anglican Communion that their hearts and minds be drawn towards accord in Thy sacred truth; bestow upon them the graces requisite to pursue Thy divine intent, and upon us, who labour for concord 'mongst all professing disciples of Thy Son, grant us the means to find and bid welcome to all who seek assurance and fellowship in the truth, and divine consolation in the unchanging doctrine handed on by the Apostles; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God. No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other. Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice. Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian. Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer.

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Nicki Minaj Praises President Trump For Standing Up For Nigerian Christians – Nicki Minaj on X

Jews are already inherently unique. We don’t need to prove it by naming our kids Cinnamon, Aqua, or Afternoon.​

A clip from the second season of the Netflix series Nobody Wants This recently made the rounds in the parent-verse. In it, interfaith couple Joanne and Noah (Kristen Bell and Adam Brody) attend a baby-naming party and submit to only the most L.A. experience: pretending you didn’t just hear something completely, utterly, and offensively dumb.

Joanne asks the Jewish mom, played by a peppy Leighton Meester, an innocent enough question: “What’s [your daughter’s] name?”

“Afternoon,” replies the mom.

“That’s not a,” starts Joanne, before catching herself mid-snicker. She quickly reverts course: “That is … my favorite time of day.”

I know this routine all too well, the one in which we swallow our tongues, nod, and reflexively exclaim “beautiful!” while simultaneously relishing new fodder for group texts. “You won’t believe the name I just heard” has grown all the more frequent and yet all the more competitive: No longer does Republic, Churchill (for a girl), or even Quinoa raise an eyebrow. I recently overheard Farro (or Pharaoh—unclear!) at the playground, and my group chat pals were unimpressed: “I dunno, I could see a President Farro/Pharaoh.”

It used to be that faddish progeny trends were more prevalent within our gentile neighbors, but not us–we who name after our beloved Bubbes and Zaydes and a long lineage of Jewish leaders, Biblical characters, and that one female Israeli prime minister. I come from a generation in which every other Jewish kid was named Talia, Ilana, or Rachel. Now I see those very same peers opting for Coyote, Striker, and Roxstar.

It’s sometimes hard to square away these peculiar pairings—an unorthodox first name with an often Jewish surname. Gravity Cohen? Aqua Levenstein? Cinnamon Goldberg?

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She's got more than enough money for the Betty Ford clinic.

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Love to get reassurance like this about the fact hell isn't real, but heaven is.

Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston was once a skeptic of the famed Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth believed by many to bear a fascinating image created during Christ’s resurrection.

Johnston, author of “Peace of God Bible: Discover and Experience God’s Shalom Throughout the Bible,” told CBN News he is fully confident about the New Testament’s authenticity.

“The authenticity of the New Testament is without question,” he said. “The Bible is a historical book and … these are books about real people, real places, real events. Our scriptures are not fairy tales. They’re not legends. They’re not lore. And they are so well-evidenced.”

Among the elements that convince Johnston of the Bible’s real and authentic take are the findings coming from archaeologists who routinely explore information and relics dating back centuries.

“Archaeologists use six books to make sure that they’re digging in the right spot in Israel,” he said. “They always use these six books — Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the Book of Acts, and then they use Josephus.”

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Taunting Pope Leo about his favorite baseball team has become something of a tradition in the early months of his pontificate.

Images of then-Father Robert Prevost at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series – taking place at the home stadium of the Chicago White Sox – are circling Facebook. (The White Sox swept the Houston Astros that year, by the way.)



Since then, Facebook and X and other sites are showing Leo being presented baseball team shirts– sometimes for hated rivals of the White Sox, such as the Chicago Cubs.

Baseball is the national sport of the U.S., and as everyone knows, Pope Leo is the first pontiff from the United States.

Everyone, that is, but the Vatican – at least when it comes to language.

I worked for Vatican Radio for 15 years – serving under three popes – and it was made clear that the rise in the English language was to be resisted, at every level. To all appearances, it still is.

Pope St. John Paul II spoke perfect English, but when he spoke to groups of ambassadors, he spoke in French. Usually, these groups came from smaller nations that didn’t have embassies for the Vatican, so their Vatican ambassador was usually serving as an ambassador to another European country (ambassadors to Italy were not allowed to also be ambassadors to the Holy See.) These officials would often have lunch or dinner together after the pope’s address, and they spoke to each other in English, because that is the common language most ambassadors around the world speak.

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is scheduled to visit the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack announced on Saturday. The visit marks what will be the first-ever visit by a Syrian head of state and could cap off the months-long campaign to pull the new Syrian regime into the U.S.-led regional alliance system.

Accordingly, al-Sharaa is expected to announce that his regime will join the international coalition against ISIS, and the results of ongoing Israel–Syria security talks may also be disclosed.

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Hello, my name is Henrik Kochan. I'm an author living in Israel.

My books in Hebrew include The Meaning of Life – Socrates, Jesus, Nietzsche and Jesus and the Laws of Moses. I’ve recently completed my first book in English (not yet published), titled Steps to Heaven: On Morality, God, and the Soul. It explores themes such as salvation in Judaism and Christianity, Jesus and Paul, the Holy Spirit, atonement, and more.

Although I’m not Christian myself, I’m deeply interested in these topics and would love to hear what my Christian friends here in the forum think about them.

The Expansion of Slavery or States’ Rights?

Lincoln’s Confusion Over Slavery and States’ Rights

Hey guys, wondering if there is any interest in this.

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Biblical Meditation, Discipline, Abiding in Christ - Morning Focus Stuff for the Word.

Love working on these things. Some of the music are my "remixes" too.

Cheers

Ask literally anyone to describe Jesus, and I’ll bet a year’s pay that “scary” doesn’t come out of their mouth.

That isn’t surprising because in Scripture’s one place that has Jesus describing Himself, we read: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matt. 11:29–30, my emphasis). That being the case, it’s certainly understandable why most people won’t connect the words “scary” and “Jesus” together.

But the fact is, there are more places in the Bible than you might think where Jesus says things that should cause us all to stand up straight. Let me give you just three off the top of my head.

Burned branches

The postmodern and post-truth philosophies that are lived out by the vast majority of people today are the antithesis of what you see Christ teaching in His four biblical biographies. Instead, they show Him stating that “true truth”, as Francis Schaeffer used to call it, exists and He’s it. Follow anything or anyone else, and you’ll be making a career decision.

Life apart from Him leads only to a terrible conclusion, which He begins to explain in a fairly famous section of John’s gospel: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:4–5).

Before we get to the foreboding part, let me add a quick aside and ask you to notice that in the above, you see anything but a self-effacing claim from Christ (“apart from Me you can do nothing”). Instead, you find a statement that helped fuel C. S. Lewis’ famous quote about Jesus: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.”

But immediately after that comes the real kicker: “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned” (John 15:6).

I'm not sure anyone reading this needs that imagery explained, but just in case, He’s saying, Me or Hell — you choose.

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When Donald Trump first ran for President in 2015 and 2016, all the usual people from the failed foreign policy uniparty establishment were up in arms. As NPR reported, “Retired Army Colonel Peter Mansoor once said Donald Trump would be a ‘foreign policy disaster for the United States.’”

Now, almost 10 years later — and nearly as many foreign conflicts resolved in just the first nine months of his second term — it’s safe to say those critics are eating their words.

Earlier this month, on October 8, 2025, Trump announced what has been nearly unthinkable for the last few years: “That Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan.”

He ended his post by quoting Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” (in all caps, of course, per his Trumpian style).

Following this historic deal and the mutual release of remaining hostages, the State Department posted an updated graphic highlighting that President Trump has ended no less than eight wars in a mere eight months.

And these weren’t just border skirmishes, either. Some of these conflicts were long-running disputes that had killed thousands and drained economies for years or decades.

Trump’s foreign policy runs on the principle of peace through strength. Build up the military, project power, then deal from there. It keeps American boots off foreign soil. No new wars started on his watch so far.

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Dear Mr. Vice President,

Last week, Archbishop Atallah Hanna of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem sent you an open letter, claiming to speak in “the language of love, faith, and humanity.” In truth, his letter was filled with distortion, resentment, and theological hypocrisy. It had little to do with the love of the One who conquered death by His resurrection, and everything to do with the political fear that has long governed dhimmi Christianity in the Islamic world.

As someone who left Islam and served Christ across the Middle East for 15 years, I must respond.

In 2008, after leaving Islam, I tried to contact a church in my hometown, Amman, Jordan. The first church I reached out to was the Greek Orthodox Church in Abdali, the very same institution under Archbishop Hanna’s jurisdiction. One hour before I arrived, Jordanian intelligence warned me not to approach any church. But I went anyway, longing to meet brothers and sisters in Christ, to feel that I was finally home. Instead, the priest publicly expelled me. He had been ordered by authorities not to welcome converts. That was my first encounter with the fearful, state-controlled Christianity that the Archbishop represents, a Christianity that bends its knees to tyranny instead of to Christ.

The Archbishop began his letter saying, “You will visit the Church of the Resurrection tomorrow and you will see doors open.”

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Friendship with Christ will only become perfect when we reach heaven where we will see him face to face. This life is a search for the face of God, since “now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Cor 13:12).

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