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And yes, there is a reason I call this transanity. It is not to attack those struggling with gender confusion but to expose the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of our culture. At what point do we, as a society, cry foul?
In day 9 of our Unsettling Advent devotional series, Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor reflects on racial injustices in the U.S. and how this helps us understand the birth of Jesus.
Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. But so was Rogen, though unknowingly so. The actor played the predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich who master ignoring — and navigating around — the misery of others in their midst.
The above is not intended as a piece of Protestant triumphalism. Rather, it is a call for more self-awareness regarding the matter of the problems of our present age.
Fallen humanity’s plight, prone to exploitation and tyranny, saddling some while booting others, would be hopeless but for providential interventions through flawed instruments like Jefferson. New York’s city council is self-righteous to think themselves his superior. Instead we should give thanks that God deploys the unworthy to achieve His will on earth.
So, let us press in to God like never before, also asking for His mercy on our land after the shedding of so much innocent blood and after so much indifference from so many of us. Let us seize this holy, historic moment and not let it go – for the ultimate good of all Americans.
We cannot effectively preach what we do not live out ourselves. If we are to reach those not experiencing the hope of Jesus, then we first need to take a personal assessment and ask ourselves if we are living proof of that hope.
Pop culture wants us to believe that we are simply natural, physical beings, and therefore we should seek our answers in only natural, physical solutions. But we are so much more than flesh and blood. We are eternal, created in the image of an eternal God, with an eternal purpose to fulfill. The quicker we realize this truth, the quicker we will start to truly live.
Of course, racism is a horrific evil. But some critics are concerned that rather than responding to actual racism, The Salvation Army had aligned itself ideologically with the Black Lives Matter organization, which leverages unfalsifiable and amorphous charges of “systemic racism” to drive racial grievances.
Stop settling for convenient lies. Stop transgressing on God’s power. And stop using the world’s tactics for the pursuit of love.
