If the only way “Law and Order” can be had is by sacrificing innocent mothers … then it has never been about law and order … but law enabling tyranny.

For the first time in their lives ... a lot of white Americans are suddenly understanding what the black community has been trying to tell them for a century. Their going to have a very rough time climbing out of the hole of their cognitive dissonance.

Basic rule for anyone dealing with American Evangelicals in 2026: When someone opens up a discussion with "God is sovereign" ... you can generally toss everything they say after that into the trash. It's a cop-out phrase uttered most often by the theologically shallow. Same for "natural law."

1/ A reminder: Caesar’s tools cannot and will never build the coming Kingdom of Christ … nor can it build a flawed facsimile. Likewise, nothing born of Christ, Christ’s character, or Christ’s mission which represents the heart of God … will ever build anything remotely akin to Caesar’s kingdom.

Dear @homelandgov.bsky.social, I refuse. Your MAGA will gleefully Seig Heil Trump and his murderous MAGA ICEnsatzgruppen, but the uncompromised never will.

"The bottom-line is this: When an overseer tells you to do something, you do it and you don't get beat." Rep. Hunt has apparently never found a limit to the number of boots he is willing to lick.

Gestapo tactics always yield Gestapo results.

Yes. I can: They often staff the jobs white Americans are too lazy to do, help build the tax base, increase the national birthrate, improve diversity, bolster the American ideal by pursuing it relentlessly, and provide an example of community that many Americans have forgotten in their selfishness.

1/ This is, in a way, a Trump iteration of Stalin’s Great Purge. People should examine how Tukhachevsky and many others were treated. Hegseth is a drunk coward bolstering Trump’s illegal acts.

Everyone really needs to stop crying “My God, what happened to Rubio, he’s changed so much.” Friends … this is what Rubio has always been. Trump doesn’t change people. He strips them to their rotten core.

Machado prostrated herself and genuflected in front of Trump, even offering him her Nobel medal ... and he turned around and slapped her in the face. This is what MAGA is. Use someone until the next mark steps up. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Replace “Venezuela” with “America” and you have Trump’s tweet on the eve of 2026 midterms.

Venezuela is the new Sudetenland.

1/ For 2026 the yearly declaration: I will continue. I will strive. I will grow. In the midst of those things, I will stand against every tyrant. I will name the oppressor and those who believe that liberty is for themselves, only. I will place myself between the racist and my brother.

Food for thought: The "Tradlife/wife" paradigm is what makes people like Tate, Fuentes, and Wilson possible. And the "Tradlife/wife" paradigm cannot exist with them, either. Cosplayers supporting other cosplayers.

Starving a populace, denying them medical care, and blowing up children seems to be all Netanyahu wants to do these days. Because he cannot see the inherent humanity of his foe he has become a monster. He won't even let others try to mitigate suffering. The wheel has turned full circle.

This is how a rapist blames the victim. "Yes, the rapist hit her to disable her ... but she hit back. I mean, that's not really fair is it?" America, you had a good run.

Just for the record: The “Somalis run fake daycares for cash” is the new “Haitians are eating your pets.” Same bigotry as impetus. Same vehicle for MAGA hate.

I can’t understand why social media is full of images of guillotines these days. Something, something, cake.

Reminder: One of the primary reasons MAGA Christen stand with the Trump admin and their ICEinsatzgruppen stormtroopers isn't because people are undocumented. It's because it helps them erase their praxis failure and their refusal to treat the stranger as Christ commanded.

1/ A Christmas Homily: Christ, carried by a refugee. Born amidst the rubble of human nature God, come down to be one of us His birth song first sung to the lowly To tell of His love and our holy liberation A babe worshiped by kings Now, we carry the light of His holy fire Emmanuel has come!

Trump says this class of ship will be very special to him ... because the crews will be under 18.

1/ New Episode! @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk with John Musser about refugees, the recent changes and upheaval in that area, and then John teaches us a strong Christian ethic on refugees and those becoming a part of our communities. Don't miss this one.

On this final Advent Sunday, a note from my homily, today: As we celebrate the coming of our Savior who will dry every tear, gather all to Him, and dispense justice ... let us remember that justice, to Christ, isn't about punishment, but about restoring the wounded and hurt.

TPUsa will make Kirk’s reliquary out of the tent he was sitting under when killed.

We're picking up our daughter from university today, and I'll be dropping the rest of the Bonhoeffer's Child 2025 Christmas cards in the mail while there. If anyone missed getting their name in, I have some extra I can send when home next week. They'll be late, but ...

1/ When you realize that Meg Basham's book, which attacks every SBC leader that isn't MAGA or part of the Mohler/MAGA axis, is a continuation of her attacks on David Sills's victim Jennifer Lyell and her attempt to minimize his sexual abuse of JL ...

1/ I don't know who needs this reminder, but ... getting blowback because you breached journalistic ethics & offering to help a serial predator who used his pulpit to get blowjobs while his wife wrote in her journal "I hope David doesn't mess it up again" isn't "ending" anything.

One of the first signs of rot within any group is the belief that one's own group is "better" or more inherently virtuous than another group. Mike, a well-known "moderate" evangelical voice now sounds identical to Fuentes, Carlson, and Owens. Repent, Mike. Relearn your fear of God.

1/ There Are Only Two Possibilities: First, that Trump's staff knows he's so dementia-addled, so emotionally thin and hungry, and so narcissistic ... that they engaged in this stupidity to satiate his preening juvenile ego.

1/ I just want to make sure I understand properly: God intended for my godson to be born without one lobe of his brain? God intended for the little girl down the street to be born missing her legs? God, who makes no mistakes, killed my neighbor's baby in-utero 1 day before he was due? Right, Marg?

1/ The American Evangelical ecosystem didn’t elevate abortion to a primary issue because they care about babies. They did so because it provides easy cover for all they excuse, enable, and ignore in the pursuit of their power and policy lust.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but … grooming someone for sexual benefit is functionally & morally identical to rape. Even if the victim is not a minor. Those who cover for an abuser or minimize their predation would also hold a woman down for rape. Yes, this is a subtweet.

So ... this must mean that all the MAGA who got people fired when they talked badly about Charlie Kirk and his racism after his murder ... are now going to push to impeach Trump, right? Right? Oh, right ... MAGA doesn't have self-awareness.

1/ Women are Weak. Until One is Needed as a Sacrifice: One of the most diabolical things about current Meg Basham/Sills/Lyman discussion going around isn’t Meg Basham’s intentional breach of journalistic ethics when she used Tom Ascol’s email address to surreptitiously offer to an abuser her help.

Want to know what toxic empathy really is? It’s using your national platform to write a letter to a clerical abuser and offering to help him with a puff piece to help soften his sexual misconduct. No wonder Meg has joined the anti-empathy crowd. She’s still covering for her dad.

1/ Reminder: There is no such thing as a "conservative" or "progressive" Christian. There are only those who try to live sacrificially as Christ did, refusing to put their hands on Caesar's scepter, with a focus on the Cross and eternity ... and there are those who do not.

When wealth is used to gauge the value of a person ... inevitably those without wealth will be seen as less than human.

In case anyone at the DOJ reads my feed, I want to offer a little patriotic help to you in your search for the headquarters of Antifa. It's in Arlington National Cemetery.

I don’t know who made this cartoon panel, but speaking as someone who has a long-established and incandescent love for Fleming Rutledge … this is hysterically funny.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but ... if the United States has the martial ability to seize an oil tanker that is under way ... it easily has the ability to stop and seize a small boat with a couple of Mercury outboards, without murdering helpless people on the capsized hull.

Erika Kirk gets a prime-time slot on CBS to talk about Faith, family, and loss ... while Bari Weiss, CBS, and the rest of the Christian Nationalist cadre supporting Kirk say nothing about Charlie's racism, antisemitism, culture war, or the 800,000 kids being killed by MAGA. Christian America.

Of Fascists and Fonts substack.com/@bonhoefferc...

In 20 years, Trump's shrill rambling tweets will be seen by posterity the exact same way posterity views Hitler's shrieking gesticulations in his speeches. Not just for their wild motions, imagery, and self-idolatry ... but also because they express the same racism and narcissism.

1/ Friends, I'm going to be spending much of the next week or so in the body shop with a bit of empty time to fill. But ... I have a load of postcards and home-made Christmas cards in my desk and will have the time to use them.

Grandpa Pedophile is sundowning, publicly tonight, as he tells his supporters they only need 2 pencils and 2 toys for their kids. MAGA apparently is so Far Right, they've now officially joined the Comintern. "Da comrade, good MAGA reject Capitalist excess of 3 pencils, and only need 2!"

1/ When considering our current American milieu and the rise of the MAGA Kristen, one in which we are ruled by a despotic pedophile who is loudly and gleefully supported by countless American Evangelical clergy and laity, it is important we recognize several unassailable facts:

And Jesus said “It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a military operator who has blown away men surrendering on a capsized destroyed boat to see heaven.”

1/ New Episode
 Bon and Ben talk about Daniel Heimbach’s take on Just War Theory and how it applies to current events, the normalization and rationalization of violence by Christians, and the hope for mankind found in Advent!