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State of Washington recently passed law requiring those knowing of child abuse to report this to civil authorities. Roman Catholic priests receiving confessions were given no exemption. Archdiocese of Seattle warned any priest who complies that he will be excommunicated.

Why?

Longstanding context for this is Roman Canon Law 983. §1 “The sacramental seal is inviolable. Accordingly, it is absolutely wrong for a confessor in any way to betray the penitent, for any reason whatsoever, whether by word or in any other fashion.” https://archseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Archbishop-on-On-Clergy-Reporting-min.pdf…

Discussing AI, revered public intellectual Noam Chomsky declares, “There is no Great Chain of Being with humans at the top.”

And God—what does He say?

Man is at the top: “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him” (Genesis 1:27).
https://chomsky.info/20230503-2/

We, the people, are pleased to bear any hurt your discipline may cause. We have long been unutterably weary of your consistent antagonism to the Christian faith, as well as your fervid hostility to morality and truth and justice. Start with the genocide of baby-slaughter which, for decades, you have never stop serving as shills.

You have fully earned this discipline. You have betrayed the public’s trust. May God lead you to repent of all your wickedness. Many will have preceded you fleeing to His Cross.

Marriage is difficult. Chesterton said it’s not whether it will be a quarrel, but whether it can be kept a lover’s quarrel. Dad would remind us of a friend walking into John Wesley’s home and finding him kneeling on the floor with his wife standing over him w/his hair grasped in her hand.

Has any archbishop ever excommunicated even a lower level politician for supporting abortion?

The priorities come out into the open in funny ways.

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Back in 2007, for starters. But you’re point is right.

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Rather than a counter tenor. Has anyone else noticed how Apple Music Apple Classical is constantly feeding us counter tenors?

Stunning stats on violence from Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, admitting foreigners disproportionately commit violent crime. https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1907405669252178354?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1907405669252178354|twgr^fb4b7666dd9cfa0d3aad094170e7683aab9f3e64|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frmx.news%2Farticle%2Fare-men-really-behind-the-crime-problem-german-statistics-show-foreign-women-are-more-violent%2F

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Not I, I make no use of “Apple Classical.” I’m old fashioned, I still have LPs and CDs.

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Latest Out of Our Minds podcast:

Family table; we set the table with food, but also conversation and leadership

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Well done, brother. Statement from Stated Clerk Bryan Chapell - byFaith

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Tim and his wife, Mary Lee, respond to some comments on the Out of Our Minds episode, The Family Table.

Parents are to train their children in their own homes keeping in mind what their children will do when they are guests in others’ homes.

Parents need the help of pastors, elders, and their wives in the hard work of raising godly children. Sometimes, they appreciate that help. Sometimes not. What if Eli, Samuel, and King David were in our congregations. Would we have helped them raise their children?

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Pastor Joseph Spurgeon hosts “The Patriarchy Podcast,” and recently we talked about why serving as pastors and elders is filled with joy—and no grumps allowed Midlife Crisis? Do Not Become … - The Patriarchy Podcast - Equipping Christian Men to Build, Fight, Protect and Lead - Apple Podcasts

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The next time someone asks you to forgive them for something they did to you that was bad, remember you and I have often done badder things. Then we have taken them to our gracious Lord Jesus Who has forgiven us freely.

So forgive them with joy! This is the Christian life.

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This is Pastor David Crum. We’re at our mutual grandson, Daniel Crum’s, high school graduation party.

Newly called to a church at war with one another, I needed a Marine next to me who would stand firm. We called David and I had the privilege of a Battle of Huế Purple Heart at my side.

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If you know the President or Mr. Musk, tell them to grow up. We all think our fights aren’t about ourselves, but principles. In this case, the whole world knew from beginning there wasn’t room enough inside Beltway for both these men.

Stop already! You’re harming our country.

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Stupid me.

Turned it off w/2 mins to go at 102-108.

Stupid stupid me.

Fathers and mothers must be careful what Scripture diet they feed their children

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If dilution is the solution to pollution, Evangelical Bible publishers have done a great job diluting our culture’s androgyny. Deleting thousands of words with male components God Himself inspired, neutering is so ubiquitous across pages of our Bibles, no one notices.

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What is a positive response to our churches polluted by neutered Bibles in the pews and pulpit?
Petition for a congregational meeting to vote on removing and banishing them. You don’t want your children feeding on Bibles that have been poisoned.

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