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Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 7d

Obviously, the hidden message is that they’re *actually* drawn to the Book of Common Prayer…

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Gen-Zers “bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare,” writes Daniel K. Williams, a historian of American religion and politics.

And what that might mean for the future of American politics.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

What does it mean for Christians? The present state of the world continuing on without change? I’ve had lots of questions from parishioners about exactly what continues on.

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

By explanation, I just mean we have to explain ages, forever, world, etc and whether or not it means we’ll be ordering from Amazon in the New Jerusalem. Any version has to be unpacked because they’re either opaque or invite uninformed assumptions.

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

It’s the older English idiom for “unto ages of ages,” which is more often translated as “for ever and ever.” I think that in the context of the traditional Glory Be, the clarity is at least equivalent to “for ever and ever” because each requires an explanation about what it means.

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13d

Sometimes nowadays Watergate can feel almost quaint, but this is a good refresher on Nixon's corruption and poor character, and how Nixon wrote the playbook in many ways for Trump: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

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Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

in "God rest ye merry, gentlemen," where all the popular Christmas albums still say ye, and congregants are stumbling over "you" because it was presumed it would be more common. Decisions about what is or will be popular made in isolation from actual practice.

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

into a miniseries (2012), various songs titled as such, including A.A. Bondy's (2007), Five Iron Frenzy's (2000), and a plethora of contemporary worship songs. This strikes me as the same sort of lack of recognition of what is actually translatable in culture as the desire to change "ye" to "you"

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

judgements have not always been borne out regarding what would be appropriately contemporary, to say nothing of pet theological critiques. In regard to "world without end" it is still variously used in popular culture today, such as in the novel of that name by Ken Folett (2007), which was then made

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

they're revised. Like the excision of portions of the prayer of humble access (that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body and our souls washed through his most precious blood) I think time has shown that the revisers/compilers of the 1979 BCP were hypersensitive to some things & their

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 13d

It's easy for me to slip into being a contrarian, so I don't always know immediately whether my sentiments are me being grouchy or if there's more behind them. One example--I think there must be other folks who think we should restore "world without end" to the contemporary language liturgies when

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 20d

There's a saying I heard somewhere attributed to a Russian (?) former communist who said re: the party, “everyone who left before us was a traitor, everyone who left after us was a fool.” wish I could remember the source.

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 21d

I've been thinking—before the announcement, & forthis & other reasons--about Rowan Wiliams’ comment that to be a Bishop is to disappoint people. Especially, it seems, to be Archbishop, given some polarized responses I’ve seen. Prayers for her, the C of E & the Communion.

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Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 22d

Telling on themselves, as the saying goes…

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million

Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 23d

I guess visible tattoos will be exempted from this effort…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24d

This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity.

This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24d

This passage nearly broke me.

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Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · 24d

The sad thing is, it seems like our parties are just fine with blatant corruption becoming a norm.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Alphabet settles with Trump instead of fighting lawsuit over January 6 suspension.

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Jody Howard @thegospelplow.com · Sep 23

Thanks for the conversation, and for pulling these threads apart so at least we can have a conversation about each part. Maybe that offers hope for a better/clearer articulation.