The modern age celebrates excess. Christmas announces restraint. The world chases control. Christmas reveals surrender. The culture crowns the self. Christmas bows before something higher. This is why it still unsettles us. Merry Christmas. #merrychristmas

Power ceases to serve moral ends and becomes an end unto itself. When authority no longer asks what is right, only what works, emergency becomes habit, force replaces persuasion, and restraint is dismissed as weakness. This is how power becomes an idol. Quietly. Respectably. Again. #revealtheidol

Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” #truth

No God. No names. Just the silence money can buy. #revealtheidol

Tolerance is a civic virtue, not a moral absolute. When a society becomes so tolerant that it tolerates intolerance, it abandons the very judgment required to defend pluralism. Virtues without limits collapse into contradictions. Unlimited tolerance is not wisdom—it is surrender. #revealtheidol

The Idol of Arrogance is the enemy of wisdom. The only door that locks from the inside. The arrogant man cannot learn, because he believes he has already arrived. Trapped in the small prison of his own certainty. Humility is not weakness. It is the only way to let the light in. #revealtheidol

Volume is not clarity. #concordstudios

The Idol of Safety seduces us with a lie: the goal of life is to simply survive it. But safety is a jealous god. It demands we sacrifice innovation, courage, and connection on its altar. As John A. Shedd wrote: "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." #revealtheidol

The Golden Cage of America. We are free to buy, free to watch, and free to consume. But are we free to think? Are we free to be still? We have confused "Standard of Living" with "Quality of Life." The first is about what you own. The second is about who you are. #RevealTheIdol

The deadliest idol is The Idol of Force. We saw its cost this weekend in Providence and Bondi. We confuse the power to destroy with the power to be free. We are told weapons make us sovereign. But if safety requires the threat of death, you are not free—you are a slave to fear. #RevealTheIdol

Unpopular opinion: "My Truth" is a broken compass. It’s just a reflection—valid, but derivative. If you navigate by looking down at the water (your feelings), you will get lost when the storm comes. You have to look up. Do you think "My Truth" protects us or makes us fragile? #revealtheidol

The loudest idol is the most comforting: The Tribe. It demands strict adherence to "Us vs. Them." But a mind owned by a faction is no longer free. Why is it so terrifying to disagree with friends? Fear of being wrong, or fear of being alone? #RevealTheIdol #PerformativeOutrage #EchoChamberExodus

The most dangerous idols look like virtues. Success turns toxic the moment it defines us. Let it serve you—don’t let it rule you. #RevealTheIdol #CivicRenewal #IllusionOfSuccess #HiddenAltars

The oldest idol is still the newest one: the Self. Social media weaponized it. Filters became fig leaves. Influencers became prophets. Selfies became digital temples. But no matter how carefully we craft the image, the self cannot save the soul. #revealtheidol #selfworship #ModernCulture

One sentence. What’s the truest thing you know? Leave your sentence in the replies. #TrueSentence #WritingCommunity #Hemingway #Reflection #Truth #philosophy

When allegiance drifts from country and conscience to tribe and team, the Republic fractures. Renewal begins when we remember our loyalty is to truth—and to one another. #TruthBeforeTribe #CivicRenewal

We build technology faster than children can grow into it. A new #CHOP study shows that kids with smartphones by 12 face higher risks of depression and poor sleep. Childhood moves slowly. Tech doesn’t. And kids need space to grow before the world speeds them up tinyurl.com/6yhhjjy7

Amid global division, a rare image of faiths meeting in peace — and a joint declaration rejecting violence in God’s name. This is the unity the world needs. El Fasher cannot remain in the shadows. tinyurl.com/3za2c3yu #Peace #Interfaith #Sudan #ElFasher #HumanDignity #ConcordSociety

As the great sales weekend crests, Thoreau reminds us: Life is "frittered away by detail." That frenzy swaps your purpose for transactions. Reclaim focus. Choose Moral Renewal. #Simplify #ConscienceBeforePower

The choice is not between fight or surrender; it is between discipline and destruction. We reject the descending spiral of violence. True civic strength is found in non-violence and the adherence to peace through order. This is the work of sustaining a republic. #PeaceThroughOrder #ConcordSociety