Alina Habba Makes 'Emotional' Move After Shattering Morale In U.S. Attorney's Office, Sources Tell NYT​

The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney's chaotic stint may have resulted in her preemptive act.

Trump’s former defense attorney admitted in a staff meeting last week that she “was unlikely to be appointed by the judges and offered an emotional, pre-emptive farewell,” according to NYT.

While in the U.S. attorney’s office, Habba boasted of her access to the White House despite claiming she is “not political,” sources told the newspaper.

Habba, who was previously appointed by Trump to serve as counselor to the president, also faces her own potential courtroom drama. She was sued by Newark Mayor Ras Barakafor false arrest, malicious prosecution and defamation after his appearance May 9 to protest an immigration detention center in Newark.

[That charge was dropped, but Habba has also pursued charges against Rep. McIver.]

And in other related news




Biden's doctor has also done the same:
Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s former doctor, also pleaded the Fifth to questions asked during his testimony before the same panel last week, which earned another rebuke from Comer.

“When Joe Biden’s doctor was asked under oath whether he had ever been instructed to lie about Joe Biden’s health, he pleaded the Fifth,”


Obviously pleading the 5th isn't, by itself, any indicator of guilt or wrongdoing. And sometimes lawyers will advise clients to do that if the question is either a no-win question or deliberately meant to obscure context/facts

However, if you look at the transcripts of the questions these three different individuals were being asked, they didn't seem to fit that mold - and were fairly straightforward, hence...some of these invocations of the 5th can't help but look a tad suspicious.


Were you ever instructed to misrepresent the President’s health?

Were you ever told to lie about the President’s health?

Did any unelected official or family member execute the duties of the President?

Did you advise President Joe Biden to pardon his son?


If the answer to those questions is a definitive "No", then why would they answer with anything but definitive and assertive "No"?


The other possibility, there are times where lawyers will all advise their clients to plead the fifth to hedge against additional charges of perjury if their answers don't line up.

For example:
If John Says: "I'll invoke my 5th amendment rights" to the question "Do you know who stole that car?"
And then Dave gets on the stand and says: "It was Chuck who stole the car, and John knew about it"

John would've been in a lot more trouble had he answered with "No"

I don't know which forum this belongs to. A priest (not mine) at church recommended that we attend a so-called "apolitical" presentation done by Hispanics. The presentation was at a different church. The presentation was supposed to be about the struggles of migrants irrespective of politics and was only going to focus on Church teachings regarding the matter.

Yeah right. Sigh. It doesn't matter right now who you side with politically, the direction of the presentation took a nosedive and inserted politics in a way that was completely uncalled for. Let me count the ways.

- It starts off by this seemingly liberal white woman saying that the only people who are truly not immigrants here are the Native Americans (I have a ton of sympathy for them, but I wish people would realize that we are romanticizing some of this - who's to say that no NA's did go to war with other tribes and take THEIR land either?)
- An Hispanic immigrant comes to the microphone and tells us how Trump wants America to be white again (race-baiting - hey I thought that this meeting wasn't supposed to be about politics?)
- A white guy (rather, white guilt guy) came up to the mic and tells us how Trump is a narcissist (I thought this meeting wasn't supposed to be about politics) and was talking against a federal judge who hid someone from the law who was supposed to be deported
- Another guy (or it could have been the same white guilt guy) said how we have a duty to take these immigrants in our house and hide them from ICE or be willing to break the law to take a migrant in our house

If these undocumented migrants have done nothing wrong, then why would it be considered breaking the law to take them in?

I thought this meeting wasn't supposed to be about politics

The Department of Justice confirmed Monday that it has received Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's criminal referral related to her bombshell claims that Obama-era officials "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, Fox News has confirmed.

The Department of Justice declined further comment, but confirmed to Fox News that the department received the referral.

Gabbard released unclassified documents Friday that reportedly show "overwhelming evidence" that then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump-Russia collusion probe after Trump's election win against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Hello, how is everyone doing? I hope you're all doing wonderful!

I have a question, I'm not too sure on how to ask and if this will make sense. However, I really hope it makes sense to at least some of you. I don't know if this is the right group to post in.

How do I help with the numbness of things that's happened in the past? I've had childhood trauma, never actually dealt with it. And I feel like all numb inside. I'm trying to get closer to Jesus. I'm wanting to pray and read my Bible everyday. But I feel like Satan keeps distracting me so that I can't. I know Jesus is coming back soon. And I'm trying to get closer to Jesus so that I can help my family get closer to Him as well. I just feel so empty inside. But I'm struggling so hard. I'm really in need of some help, somehow. Please, any help would be very appreciated!

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Pam Bondi Grants Hillary Clinton Email Probe Request Amid Epstein Furor​

If this doesn't work, expect cries of "Laptop! What about the laptop?"

Or maybe an investigation into Obama's birth certificate. Anything to stop the bleeding.

Trump can't stop MAGA from obsessing about the Epstein files​

Even his supporters recognize that it's extremely suspicious that he won't come clean on the list that could clear him of pedophila. Assuming he's not on the list.

Shalom

The first Jesus March will take place in Salzburg, Austria, on October 31, 2025.

On this day, when the world celebrates death, we want to exalt the Lord of life here over this city and over this country.

We ask for your support in prayer so that the name of Jesus will be glorified here, in Jesus' name, Amen.

Thank you for your prayers!

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38; Job 42:10) and may he bless Israel in Jesus' name, Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

Who is our #1 teacher we are to be listening to and following? God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. And he speaks to us through the Scriptures, and he speaks to us through his Spirit who lives within those of us who believe in Christ. For the Word of God is implanted in the hearts of those who believe in Jesus. And we are taught of God by the Holy Spirit who lives within us. But within the body of Christ we also have Christians with the gift of teaching, and we can learn from them, too, but we must test what they teach against the Scriptures, taught it context, so we believe the truth.

For we want to be taught the truth, which is of God, so that what we end up following is the truth, and not the lies which are spreading so rapidly. We should want to know the way of the Lord and of his commandments so that we will now walk in them, in truth and in righteousness, until the very end. And we should inquire of the Lord for understanding of his Word so that, by the Spirit, we will walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commandments (New Covenant), and so we will keep his Word wholeheartedly. For we should be those who delight in walking in the ways of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, not only should we pray that our hearts will be inclined to receiving, believing, and putting into daily practice the testimonies of our Lord, written down for us in the Scriptures (taught in the correct context), but that our hearts will not be inclined to what is dishonest and to what is vanity. And this is why we must be students of the Scriptures who study them in the correct biblical context, so that we are able to discern truth from error (from lies), so that we end up obeying the truth and not the lies which are spreading so rapidly today. For many teach lies as truth and truth as lies.

So God is the one to establish within us what is true and to let us know what is false. And the Word of the Lord, written down for us in the Scriptures, if taught in the appropriate context, should be that which produces reverence for God. And reverence is respect, honor, and worship, which includes us denying self, dying to sin daily, and walking in obedience to our Lord according to his commands. It includes us humbly surrendering our lives to Christ, to do his will, to answer his calls, to walk in his ways, and to honor him as Lord of our lives. For to this we are called of God, to serve Him.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Your Word

Based off Psalms 119
An Original Work / December 27, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Praise You with an upright heart as
I learn of Your righteousness.
I seek You with all my heart;
Do not let me stray from Your law.
I have hidd’n Your word in my heart
That I might not sin against You.
Open my eyes that I may see
Wonderful things in Your word.
I am a stranger on earth.

I have chosen the way of truth;
My heart is set on Your word.
I will walk about in freedom,
For I have sought out Your truth.
Teach me knowledge and good judgment,
For I believe in Your law.
Your hands made me, and they formed me;
Give me understanding, Lord.
I put my hope in Your word.

Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light unto my path.
You are my shield and my refuge;
In Your word I put my hope.
My heart trembles at Your word, Lord.
May my lips o’erflow with praise.
May my tongue sing of Your truth, Lord.
Your salvation, Lord, long I.
Your word, Lord, is my delight.

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That Which Produces Reverence for God
An Original Work / July 21, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Luis Leon, 82, lost his wallet which contained his green card issued in 1987 after receiving asylum from Chile post-torture. He went with his wife to an immigration office in Philadelphia for a replacement. From there, he was disappeared.



Chile's Pinochet was famous for disappearing its people. I think he has a modern day rival.

The Metropolitan Cathedral’s communications office in Mexico City expressed its dissatisfaction with the projection of pro-abortion messages on the façade of the church during a show organized by the capital city’s government.

The show, titled “Luminous Memory: Mexico-Tenochtitlan 700 Years,” takes place every night July 11–27 in the capital’s Zócalo (central square). It transforms the National Palace and the Cathedral into monumental screens to visually narrate the history of the capital, from its Aztec origins to the present day.

According to the Mexico City government, the narrative includes episodes such as independence, the Mexican Revolution, and "recent events such as the arrival of the first LGBTIQ+ Pride March to the Zócalo, the decriminalization of abortion, the election of two female heads of government, and the consolidation of a city of rights and freedoms."

Among the images projected onto the façade of the cathedral are women with green neckerchiefs, symbols of the feminist movement, and a sign reading "safe abortion."

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The second altar from Jewish Scripture that prefigures the Catholic altar is probably less familiar to most people than the bronze altar we examined in Part 1 of this series. Here in Part 2, we will focus on the “golden table” of the “Bread of the Presence.” 1Like the bronze altar of sacrifice, this golden table was located in the Tabernacle of Moses. Unlike the bronze altar, the “Table of Showbread” (as it is sometimes called) was not in the outer courtyard, but in the inner sanctuary of the Holy Place.

If we examine the golden table on which this bread was placed in light of Jewish Scripture and tradition, we discover that the Bread of the Presence not only prefigures the Eucharist: even more, the golden table on which it was offered prefigures the sacred tableof the Catholic altar, on which is offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Table and Tabernacle

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Seminaries are at the healthiest point they have been in for decades in terms of culture and quality of priestly formation, experts say.

For decades, Catholic seminaries — buffeted by the post-Vatican II turmoil of the 1960s and the sex-abuse crisis — have seen the ranks of candidates for the priesthood steadily shrink.

So far, that trend hasn’t changed, but it no longer reflects the reality within seminaries, which are at the healthiest point they have been in for decades in terms of culture and quality of priestly formation, experts say.

“I am convinced that U.S. Catholic seminaries are doing very well, better than they have in many decades. While there are statistics on seminary formation, my own conclusion comes down to personal experience and conversations with many other seminary rectors and formators over the 14 years that I have been doing this work. I would even call this a ‘golden age’ of seminary formation,” said Father Carter Griffin, rector of Saint John Paul II Seminary in Washington, D.C.

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The SkyWest pilot identified the second plane as a B-52 bomber. The Air Force said Sunday evening that it was "looking into" reports of a military aircraft “operating in the same airspace” as a commercial airplane. It added that a B-52 assigned to Minot Air Force Base had conducted a flyover of the North Dakota State Fair on Friday evening.

The pilot says that the ATC tower instructed him to turn right but that when he looked over, he saw a B-52 bomber. He says that he was then instructed to turn left but that at that point, he looked over and "saw the airplane that was kind of coming on a converging course with us."

The second aircraft was moving faster than the SkyWest plane, the pilot says, so he made the decision to turn behind it.

"So, sorry about the aggressive maneuver. It caught me by surprise," the pilot says in the video. "This is not normal at all. I don't know why they didn't give us a heads up."

In the video, the pilot also mentions that the tower that serves Minot International Airport does not have a radar and that controllers rely only on visuals to make calls.

The Air Force Base nearby does have radar, the pilot says, which causes him to wonder why nobody said, "Hey, there's also a B-52 in the pattern."

"There are many small airports across the country that have commercial service that don't have radar. Instead, they'll have some sort of coordinating communication with another radar facility several miles away, perhaps with a military base," [aviation guy] Guzzetti said.

The key question, Guzzetti said, is how much coordination there was between the Air Force base and the airport.

Fire was set to a church and dozens of Christian homes in As-Sawra al-Kabira (Al-Sura al-Kabira), a small village in southern Syria, according to multiple media reports.

Aid to the Church in Need identified the church as St. Michael (Mar Michael), a Melkite Catholicparish, and reported that 38 Christian homes had been destroyed. The homeless Christians took refuge in Shahba, a nearby small city, where “they are currently living in precarious conditions” in a church hall.

Reporting on the July 15 incident, Syriac Press quoted Father Butrus al-Jut, the parish priest:

They didn’t stop at the church. They burned and ransacked our homes. They shattered our windows, stole our belongings, and set our lives aflame ... This church is not made of stones. It is built on faith—faith that still lives in our hearts. And we will rebuild it.

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“The Mar Michael Church, a modest stone structure with deep roots in local tradition, has stood as a spiritual and cultural landmark in Al-Sura al-Kabira for generations,” Syriac Press reported. “More than just a house of worship, it served as a gathering point for community events and a symbol of resilience in a region long known for its religious and ethnic diversity.”

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Congressman Clay Higgins’ statement will likely cause some Catholic Bishops to lose sleep. Catholic NGOs collected over $3 billion in federal funds by trafficking illegal aliens under the Biden administration.​

This week, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing detailing how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helped facilitate and benefited from the historic Biden-Harris border crisis, as well as how far-left NGOs are still working to help inadmissible aliens undermine federal immigration law under the Trump administration. Tuesday, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen (R-OK) penned an op-ed in the New York Post outlining the importance of this hearing and the Committee’s investigation into these organizations.

Witnesses included Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project; Ali Hopper, president and founder of GUARD Against Trafficking; and Julio Rosas, a national correspondent for Blaze Media––all of whom have investigated or reported on how these organizations work with Democrat officials and open-borders advocates to advance a pro-illegal immigration agenda.

In the hearing, witnesses laid out in detail how NGOs received more than $6 billion from the Biden-Harris administration, including through grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and others. They also testified about how the Biden-Harris administration handed over unaccompanied alien children (UACs) to NGOs, primarily at the border, who then delivered them to poorly-vetted sponsors. The Biden-Harris administration then failed to ensure proper follow-up communications to check on the well-being of the children, leading to more than 300,000 children unaccounted for in the interior. Simultaneously, many of these NGOs and their executives enjoyed substantial revenue and salary increases thanks to the grants.

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When was the last time you felt like you could trust your government?

More specifically, when was the last time you felt you might be able to trust a particular politician?

I’d been on a long run of deep cynicism about all of it after the 2020 election. I neither believed that Joe Biden (who barely campaigned and clearly was suffering from the early stages of dementia) won the most votes in history, nor that the Trump camp’s bleating about a stolen election had anything substantial to back it up. I was caught in a web of improbability and lies, and becoming far too cynical to care. I was going through my own personal crisis of faith, and identity, and career, and the last thing I could get myself to care about was politics.

Although everyone’s experiences were different, I know many other Americans felt deeply jaded after the debacle of the 2020 election, the confusing narratives around January 6, and the promise of a “Kraken” that never materialized.

But for many of us, something changed in a very unexpected fashion on July 13, 2024, when Donald Trump, who felt like an at best dark horse comeback candidate at the time, narrowly missed an assassin’s bullet through an uncannily coincidental — some say miraculous — turn of the head.

Rather than be cowed by the ongoing gunfire and chaos, he struggled to his feet, and in one of the most iconic moments ever photographed in world history, raised his fist, and yelled, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

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Nestled within Whistler’s many snow-covered peaks, Our Lady of the Mountains Parish finds itself just months away from the grand opening of its newly renovated church, a multimillion-dollar restoration project five years in the making, which is set to embrace the town’s historic alpine atmosphere.

As the only Catholic church in the popular British Columbia resort town in the Coastal Mountains north of Vancouver, Our Lady of the Mountains’ transformation will see what was once no more than a quaint multipurpose hall become a fully functional sacred space for prayer, service, and evangelization as well as a visual testament to the community’s steadfast faith and perseverance.

Whistler is part of the Diocese of Kamloops but has long been a spiritual home for many Catholics in the wider region who flock there for vacation.

Whistler welcomes around 3 million visitors each year — about 45% in winter and 55% in summer — so thousands of Catholics are served by the parish during ski weekends and summer getaways.

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Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a video call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin and a visit to the Vatican Observatory, located on the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo, where he has been staying for two weeks.

According to the Vatican, the pontiff’s July 20 call with the 95-year-old Aldrin, the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member, included reminiscing on the historic 1969 landing and meditating together on the “mystery, greatness, and fragility” of God’s creation as described in Psalm 8.

Earlier in the day, Leo visited the Vatican’s internationally-recognized observatory, called the Specola Vaticana, where he was able to look through the astronomical center’s historic telescopes.

The Vatican Observatory has been located on the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo, around 18 miles southeast of Rome, since the 1930s, but the history of the institution dates to the 18th century. After several years of closure in the late 1800s, Leo’s predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, re-founded the observatory in 1891.

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Catholic images and crucifixes fill the walls in Times Square Tattoo. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Tommy Houlihan

In the heart of New York City, nestled among the tall buildings of Times Square, sits a small tattoo shop with two 17-inch signs of the Miraculous Medal hanging outside the front door. Inside, walls of rosaries, crucifixes, and religious images greet visitors, while an old church pew serves as a place to sit and wait. A glass jar filled with blessed Miraculous Medals sits on the front desk.

The tattoo parlor, Times Square Tattoo, is more than a tattoo parlor, according to owner Tommy Houlihan, who has a deep devotion to the Miraculous Medal and the Blessed Virgin Mary. The 55-year-old told CNA that he views his shop as a “ministry for the Miraculous Medal.”

Houlihan has been a tattoo artist since 1990. He grew up in a Catholic household in Hell’s Kitchen, a neighborhood on the west side of midtown Manhattan, and by the age of 18 began his career in body art.

An old church pew serves as a waiting area for customers inside Times Square Tattoo. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tommy Houlihan

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What does that feel like if our souls cleave to the dust, but we are followers of Christ? It sounds to me like depression. And it could have been brought on by some type of sin or misstep of some nature. So the need for revival could be of a spiritual nature involving repentance. Or it could be a need for restoration and renewal in a mental or emotional state where someone has been brought low and needs to be lifted up, encouraged, and restored.

And if we say that we have told the Lord of our ways, and we want him to teach us his statutes, that could be a confession of sin, and of a desire for renewal in the Spirit, or it could be that we have just called out to God in our difficult circumstances and prayed for guidance and direction in how to move forward and in what to do next. Perhaps we made some wrong choices, which were not sinful, but we need to make better choices in the future.

Either way, we are seeking the Lord for guidance and direction in knowing what to do next, in having a better understanding of what his word teaches us, so that we might make better choices in the future, and to not repeat the same mistakes (or bad or unwise choices). Regardless of the circumstances, we are seeking the counsel of the Lord, and of his word, to guide us and to direct us in the way in which he would have us to go, in order to please him.

But we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context, under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, who are seeking to know the will of God for our lives, so that we might do the will of God. We need to be in the Word of God every day seeking his will and purpose for our lives and to know truth so that we can obey the truth. And then we need to be putting the Word of God into daily practice in our lives.

So, if our souls weep because of grief, it could be grief over the loss of a loved one, or it could be grief over the loss of income and not knowing where we will get our next meal, or how we will pay our bills. Or it could be because we were judged falsely and treated badly by others. Or it could be because of sin. But whatever it is, we need the Lord Jesus to give us strength, according to his word, so that we might continue to walk in him.

And for him to remove any false way from us could be about repentance and spiritual renewal, or this could be for him to show us any false ways that we are believing, and to show us the truth, in opposition to the lies we have believed, so that we now follow the truth and not the lies. I know that I grew up believing some lies, and the Lord had to show me the lies I was believing and to reveal to me the truth so I would reject the lies and follow the truth.

But the bottom line here in it all is that this is about a desire to follow the ways of the Lord, and the teachings of the Scriptures, and to do the will of God, and to not go a wrong direction. And so we want to be shown, of the Lord, anything that we have been believing wrong or doing wrong (things we are not already aware of) so that we will no longer head the wrong direction, but now we will be going in the right way, which is the way of God.

As a result of all of this, our hearts and minds will change, we will grow closer to the Lord in our walks of obedience to him, in surrender to his will, and he may call us to a specific ministry we would never have considered previously. And we will be better prepared to answer “Yes, Lord,” and to go with God, because we have a closer more intimate relationship with him, and because we have a better understanding of his will and purpose for our lives.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

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My Soul Weeps
An Original Work / July 21, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Hi, I wanted to try out this one trail, I don't know why, because I'm usually petrified of these things alone. I was literally the only person on that trail the entire time. It was so much walking that my head was starting to feel mushy. I had some Gatorade with me (plain water would not have done it for me) but there were no benches around the entire mega loop and I knew where I was thankfully, I wasn't lost, but I was waiting and waiting for the bench to finally show up (it did). The trail started near this small lake and was supposed to end at that same lake (looping back) and I was hoping so bad that the lake would show up again (it did). I have never been so tired in my life. It wasn't real exercise in the sense of brisk walking. I was slow-walking, that was enough. I kind of regret doing it but I had been curious about this place for awhile. I've done all the trails in the park except one.

When I was a very young child my grandmother had a print of a painting of Jesus sitting on hill. I asked her where he was, meaning in that particular picture. She responded; "Jesus is everywhere." I thought that was funny.
I found out later that it was by Josef Untersberger entitled Christ on the Mt of Olives.

I love art. Another one of may favorite is James Tissot

Is beauty intellectual, emotional, or experiential? Or perhaps none of the above?​

We are often told that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder” when confronted with an object whose beauty is open to interpretation. Why are we told this? Is it because beauty is intellectually subjective, or because designating something as ugly may insult the creator of the object, or because beauty is experiential and thus different to all? Some may say “all of the above”.

If all of the above responses applied —that beauty is subjective, personal, and experiential—then would it not mean that other aspects of our reality fall within a similar categorization? Religion is typically discussed in similar terms, making it difficult to reach a consensus. However, if it were true that beauty is highly personal, then why do so many people share an intrinsic understanding that some things are more beautiful than other things?

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Love not the world, but love your Lord,
And follow Him in one accord,
Walk in His ways, do what He says,
Give Him your life, in Him invest.

Now do His will, and don’t sit still,
Surrender all, all to His will,
Go where He leads, and speak His words
To all who’re living so absurd.

For Jesus died, he died for all,
That we would on our Savior call,
Repent of sin, obey our Lord,
Now walk with Him in one accord.

Believe in Him, die to your sins,
Commit your life to live for Him,
Submit your all to Him as King,
And praise Him, praise Him, when you sing.

For faith in Christ, not what we say,
But how we live for Him each day,
Denying self, self-sacrifice,
Give all to Him, to be precise.

No longer walking in our sins,
No longer living where we’d been,
For Jesus died to set us free,
So we’d now live in victory.

An Original Work / July 20, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Chesterton was half-right: America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” The other half of the truth is that many of our churches lack basic features of historic churchiness: sacraments, liturgical forms, settled creeds, authority. Like America itself, the American church seems a novus ordo seclorum. Our churchy national soul weirdly inhabits a body of peculiar, borderline-heretical actual churches.

In some respects, our unchurchy churchiness is no surprise. We’re Protestant, and Protestants have always been, as Alec Ryrie writes, radicals, lovers, and fighters, restlessly carrying on a centuries-long “open-ended, ill-disciplined argument,” churning out new ideas and rehabilitating old ones with “a certain generic restlessness, an itchy instability.” A “self-perpetuating dynamo of dissatisfaction and yearning,” the Protestant churches have been “one of the engines driving modern history.”
America was founded as a post-Christendom Christian nation. Christian, yes, profoundly so, but never Christian in the way Europe was Christian. Europe became Christian century after plodding century. We started out Christian. The Reformation battered and splintered European Christendom. Colonists brought their European splits with them, and proceeded to split even more. The church was the unifying reality of medieval Europe; after the Reformation, most European nations established one or another variety of national church. Free church Christianity was a late development in Europe. Free church Christianity is American Christianity. States retained established churches into the early nineteenth century, but that was a long time ago. Our default ecclesiology is Lockean and Baptist.

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