Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Troop Deployment in Chicago www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! (Isaiah 1:15 NIV11-GK)

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Neighbors Warn Neighbors As Fear of ICE Ripples Through Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8 NIV11-GK) accordancebible.com/link/read/NI...

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence. This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less. Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

This Sunday I start a 4 week Adult Class at @Christ_ChurchUS on Brand Evangelicals from the 60s–90s. All are welcome to join us at 10:30AM at the Oak Brook campus.

On this day 2025, the album Life of a Showgirl dropped. Opalite, Wi$h Li$t, CANCELLED!, Life of a Showgirl are my favs.

Many evangelicals think that with Trump they have regained the political power and influence they once had with Reagan and Bush. But the script is flipped. The political powers and principalities have the evangelical’s influence they needed to accomplish their agenda.

30 years ago today Oasis dropped this bombshell of an album on the world. What’s your favorite track? Mine Don’t Look Back in Anger

I encourage you to listen to this NPR reporting on Illinois professors that appeared on Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Professor Watchlist. I was one of the professors on the list that was interviewed by NPR.

We do not need martial law that escalates violence and puts more armed people on our streets. We need common sense laws that takes armed people off the streets and ends the senseless loss of citizens’ lives. We need to make America safe again.

Happy birthday sweet girl!

“What cause can justify the mobilisation of so many? Or rather, what hatred inspired them all to arm against each other? This is proof that the human race lives at the mercy of kings:

My latest at the Anxious Bench.

“The mood in the stadium appeared somber and reflective. There were talking points that were repeated from many of those memorializing Kirk. Common themes highlighted Kirk’s commitment to the fatherland, faith, and family.

“Charlie’s love for the fatherland took on a militant chord from a number of those offering tribute.” www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

My column at the Anxious Bench today: The Charlie Kirk Memorial: a Funeral, a Revival, a Rally “We may just have to get used to the embrace between the Church and State.” www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

I’m doing some crowdsourcing. So, please share if possible. Question Do you think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk is an example of Christians being persecuted? Please comment with Y/N. And explain why, if possible.

September 15, 2025 Six years of Letters from an American. I could not be more grateful to be part of this wonderful community.

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

Facts and data speak louder than rhetoric. Loud rhetoric often points to a lack of evidence that supports your argument.

I was interviewed by NPR today. They want to present a more complex and complicated portrait of Charlie Kirk. One that looks at the consequences of his ideas and his programs of censure (the Professor Watchlist).

The gift of writing a column for the @anxiousbench.bsky.social is that we have a set cycle and schedule, so whether I write with immediacy or take time to process and write carefully, my piece will publish no sooner than the 4th Monday of the month. This is a grace for me to appreciate.

Today we celebrate how death is no victor. “Ἀμήν, ἔρχου κύριε Ἰησοῦ.” Rev. 22:20

She said yes to my son. #HoCo2025

Excellent reporting from Jack Jenkins on Charlie Kirk’s rise and TPUSA’s politically right, national-populist, Christian coalition. julieroys.com/charlie-kirk...

TEMPERANCE Definition Moderation in action, thought, and feeling: RESTRAINT. Learn it. Value it. Live it. It will differentiate you in this age of utter political intemperance—where digital impulsiveness and rage rewards assumptions, biases & bigotry.

Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“The father-killer and the brother-killer are raging wolves ‘eating up’ the Lord’s ‘people like bread.’” St Patrick, “Epistola to the Soldiers of Coroticus” in St Patrick: The Man and His Works, Ed. By Thomas O’Loughlin (SPCK, 1999), 95–96.

In case you need more gelato eating K-pop demon hunters in your life, here’s a feed cleanse.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:18 NIV11)

The small arms industry is a thirsty God called Moloch.

Even when our cities are treated like occupation and war zones, we should know better than to think violence is the solution. It’s not.

College and Universities are places meant to safely express and debate ideas. Let’s stop turning them into places of terror.

Grateful that Van Wyk shared a complimentary copy of his years of scholarly labor. I look forward to reading and reviewing this book!

Yes… read this.

That story haunted me after reading it for the first time. I re-read it last year to a friend and it still fills me with such a deep unease, which is only amplified by the lack of empathy I see in the world today.

If you read only one thing today, read this. open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...

Great day at the park. Great Sox victory over the Yankees.

“The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.” Proverbs 15:29

The “For You” feed on X is basically a tabloid.

"PSA has become a shibboleth for Reformed Evangelicals and an essential doctrinal boundary for determining evangelical fidelity … to decide who is inside and outside the bounds of evangelical orthodoxy, and whether one merits a seat at the table of evangelical power and authority."

When John Mark Comer posted a pic in praise of Andrew Rillera’s new book on atonement, it triggered a flurry of responses from Reformed evangelical social media. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

In my 30s I wanted to change the world. In my 40s I want to take an afternoon nap.

“Comer possesses what historian Molly Worthen has recently argued is a powerful trait of leaders: charisma.” www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

My latest at the Anxious Bench— Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

New from me at the Anxious Bench— Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate “Reformed Evangelicals have scrutinized and surveilled John Mark Comer for some time, and his recent Instagram post presented a tactical opportunity to attack him.” www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Books on my mind.

On Monday my column about John Mark Comer and PSA (Penal-Substitutionary Atonement) drops at the @anxiousbench.bsky.social You may find it of interest.