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Turning Point Blank

Charlie Kirk should still be alive. He should still be free to speak his opinions safely in the public square. There is no justification for what happened on September 10th, no circumstance in which his assassination should be anything but a tragedy. His death was tragic and unforgivable, but he should not be lauded as…
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Crash Out

At that exact same time, the song from Andor Season 2, Niamos! shuffled on and I mentioned half-seriously, “what a song to have a crash out to.” Kelli looked at me, noting the sincerity in that bit of sarcasm and I just burst into tears. I felt big, and big was the absolute last thing…
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Did Superman “Go Woke”?

Instead of looking in, you are bombarded with the command to look out. Superman is a reminder that it doesn’t just have to be us or them. We don’t have to look out, we can look up.
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The Bunny Song

Injustice thrives in the periphery and the blind spots and lukewarm ambivalence does just as much harm as a full-bodied kneel. So yeah, all I have are these 2,000 words and a VeggieTales analogy, but I’ll be damned if I’m not using those to say that what’s wrong is wrong.
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Top Ten Movies of 2024

No, despite seeing Shrek 2 in theaters five times this year, it did not make this list.
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Top Ten First Watches of 2024

This year I found a lot of art therapy in these movies I’ve never seen before, and I think my Top Ten First Watches of 2024 will reflect that cinematic healing well.
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American Idol

I grew up under the firmly held belief that Christians could not be Democrats. I remember in 2015 talking to one of my most outspoken Christian friends and having my mind shatter when I found out she’d been to a Bernie rally. I remember how dark a day in our household it was in 2008…
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That’s Clearly Your Car

the former President is now trying to pin the tail on the donkey as if he hasn’t been flinging darts since 2015. Donald Trump created the mess and now, as is his custom, he’s blaming everyone else for its existence. To illustrate this issue and just how asinine it is, I’m going to pass this…
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The Bible Tells Me So

This isn’t to say that the Bible can’t inform politics, but that more often in this country it is the political slants informing Biblical interpretation. To illustrate my frustrations and the danger of politicians weaponizing the Bible, I’d like to make the following point; democracy is unbiblical.
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American Violence

” Violence is wrong. It was no more wrong on January 6th than it was this evening. When we as a nation can find no other means to discourse than to take arms, we are wrong. ”