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On American Reformer, Bethlehem/Moscow’s Rigney does piece on socials’ kerfuffle at Wheaton abt PresTrump’s Vought appt. Delicately late to the party, he doesn’t mention Wheaton PresRyken/trustees’ slandering PresBuswell as racist.
Straining gnats The Anatomy of a Steer - American Reformer
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You want to be safe when you fly?
Forget it. You really must read this: The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal
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An interesting read, and scary!
On another note, I do appreciate the nuanced approach he took at the end of the article as to why there are DEI programmes at all. May I submit that we have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater?
Reading this aloud to Juergen last night, near the beginning I paused and said, “What’s next? Heart and brain surgeons?”
Air traffic controllers are near ground zero for the necessity of merit-only based hiring, evaluation, and promotion. Those choosing our air traffic controllers should never ever use their position to fulfill their duty to defend and advocate in behalf of the alien, widow, and orphan. They are to love their neighbor by keeping his plane safe. Full stop.
Second, DEI is almost never about helping the poor—not even (or especially) in ecclesiastical contexts and bureaucracies. It’s all about power with one side promoting theirs by grandstanding one way and the other by grandstanding oppositely. There was some innocence and righteousness in Job’s advocacy for the poor, a little less among the abolitionists, even less back during the civil rights campaigns in my youth, and maybe a microscopic amount in all the shrews’ anti-abuse sites online. But DEI?
Nah.
Which brings me to this final thought. DEI should never be legislated. It is mercy and compassion and should be the focus of NGO, church, and individual actions. We have lived under a DEI regime for decades now and it’s done nothing substantive to help the poor and oppressed other than build their sense of entitlement while our nation is split right down the middle. When a nation’s authorities oppress the majority by enforcing an authoritarian hegemony of a minority, you have Rwanda and Eastern Congo and Kigame taking over and restoring what the Tutsis had which produced the explosion of machetes during the genocide by the Hutus.
You have the MAGA world exploding in anger and putting PresTrump in office with the cries that follow him there being, “We’re not going to take it any more!”
Not saying I’m right in the above, but what I’m thinking currently. Love,
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I think that’s key.
There are a large number of pretty high-profile jobs whose combination of intensity and qualifications are going to result in unrepresentative demographic profiles relative to America’s diverse society. “Outreach” won’t solve this. (It’s 2025–we’ve been “outreaching” to women and minorities about computer science for more than a generation and it remains persistently male, white and Asian. As if everyone hasn’t understood how lucrative careers in technology are since “Microsoft” became a household word in like 1991.)
So when “outreach” doesn’t close these gaps, what do we have left? We can either admit that through some combination of interest and aptitude, many jobs are going to be unrepresentative of the population at large, or we can lower the standards. That’s it: those are the choices.
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Job laments to God: “Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been, carried from womb to tomb” (Job 10:18-19).
Job lived in his mother’s womb. Do those little ones no slightest harm. #abortionismurder
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Many reformed pastors claim they preach the Gospel, yet they systematically neglect the first half of it. The schoolmaster, God’s Moral Law. Speaking neverendingly of “grace,” they repudiate-by-silence the grace of the Law.
All of Scripture declares repentance and faith are one.
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Agreed; in your judgement, when did (too many) Reformed pastors begin to neglect the Law in the way you describe, and why?
To explain why I am asking. Years ago, I can recall asking Ray Comfort why and when it was that preachers had given up using the Law in evangelism. He wasn’t quite sure when; but on my later thought it might have been around the start of the twentieth century, when what we now call Modernism began to move out of the theological schools and into pulpits.
ABC names Mooresville High School intended shooter “she” & “Trinity Shockley” while CBS names her “he” and “Jamie Shockley.” Media can’t agree whether she’s man or woman, but they agree she’s trans & has “anger issues.”
Look what they’ve done to our children. #manorwoman
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His name is Jonah…
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Couple days ago, Wheaton College issued press release congratulating and calling for prayer for alumnus Russell Vought just confirmed as PresTrump’s White House Director of Office of Management and Budget.
Which, of course, infuriated all Wheaton’s Woke alumni who demanded PresRyken withdraw his congratulations.
Dutiful, he manned up and did so, but now Wheaton’s unWoke alumni are demanding PresRyken apologize for his previous apology… (Which he is abt to do.)
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Point to be made is Wheaton’s trustees/President Phil Ryken have spent many years cravenly submitting to WOKE loudmouths. Backtracking/apologies r not leadership. Apologizing to Blacks by slandering PresBuswell as racist or apologizing for Vought r equally craven. For shame.
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We need a Monty Python for Christianity. Certainly no lack of material for it.
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Don’t know, Ross. What I can say is that Luther describes precisely what we see and hear today as the problem of his time, also.
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Well, the Babylon Bee tries, but it doesn’t always land that well.
How come it says “nations?” Canada’s a state, right? Gotta go back and watch Canadian Bacon…
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