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"To have a culture, mostly the same people have to live mostly in the same place for a long time."—Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance, p. 57
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This man has singlehandedly saved hundreds of babies from abortion.
Kenneth Calvin Jr. stands outside Planned Parenthood every week, talking to mothers and fathers who feel like abortion is their only option, and offering them real, tangible help so they don't abort their child.
In 2025 alone, he helped save 130 confirmed babies. And he trains other pro-lifers to evangelize, reach families outside abortion clinics, and save even more babies. He's a man of great faith, integrity, and boldness.
And with NJ Governor Mikie Sherill making it illegal to pray outside abortion clinics and MA Governor Maura Healey codifying abortions up until the moment of birth, his work is needed now more than ever.
But I just learned that right now, Kenneth and his family are the ones who need help. He underwent major heart surgery yesterday and is currently sedated and recovering in a resting coma. He won't be able to work or evangelize for months.
So his friends are raising money not only to support his wife and four children while he recovers, but to help Kenneth continue and expand the pro-life ministry he's built when he's back on his feet.
Watch his story. And if it moves you, please consider joining me in blessing Kenneth and his family with an incredible surprise by giving to his fundraiser below. 👇
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Our first contribution to the rebeautification of the USA, here in Washington DC.
As Frenchmen, we are honored to serve the friendship between our two great nations.
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Rutherford says there is a “political solution,” but that doesn’t mean only what you think—as if the “political” were restricted to the strongly worded letter. It flows from the natural right and duty of self-defense.
“Self-preservation in all creatures in which is nature, is in the creature suitable to their nature. The bull defendeth itself by its horns, the eagle by her claws and bill … So men, and Christian men, do naturally defend themselves; but the manner of self-defence in a rational creature is rational, and not always merely natural; therefore, a politic community, being a combination of many natures, as neither grace, far less can policy, destroy nature, then must these many natures be allowed of God to use a natural self-defence. If a king bring in an army of foreigners, then a politic community must defend itself in a rational way.”
Lex, Rex, Q31 [159-60]
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“As the crowd (mainline conservative Christians) mindlessly declares their denunciations, every one of them feels like a hero.”
-@PerfInjust
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Chrysostom on Galatians 3:13 and Christ satisfying the demands of the law:
“For the people were liable to punishment since they had not fulfilled the whole law. Christ satisfied a different curse: the one that says "Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree" Both the one who is hanged and the one who transgresses the law are accursed. Christ, who was going to lift that curse, could not properly be made liable to it yet had to receive a curse. He received the curse instead of being liable to it and through this lifted the curse. Just as, when someone is condemned to death, another innocent person who chooses to die for him releases him from that punishment, so Christ also did.... Just as by dying he snatched from death those who were going to die, so also when he suffered the curse he released them from the curse.”—John Chrysostom; Ancient Christian Commentary NT VIII (IVP Academic; 2005), pg. 40
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St. Cyril of Alexandria on justification and sanctification:
"For through [Christ] the Father is propitious to us. And, since the lawgiver justifies [Δικαιοῦντος] and releases us from every indictment, remitting the punishment for our transgressions, and furthermore since he sanctifies [ἁγιάζοντος] us intellectually through the Holy Spirit and transforms us—in a manner that he himself knows—into 'newness of life,' which is both self-controlled and virtuous, I could not tell you 'who is the one who still condemns' or what sort of dirt is still upon us." — Against Julian (7.43)
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“Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace; and so the whole soul is brought unto its rest in God.”
—John Owen, Works 1:383
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"[The apostles] proclaim the glory of God to us, which is the grace set in Christ Jesus for the remission of our sins. For all have sinned and are deprived of God's glory, and all are justified freely through Christ's blood. It is because it is free that it is called grace, for it would not be grace were it not given gratis. But gratis it is, because we had previously done nothing to entitle us to such benefits. Rather, because punishment would have been imposed deservedly, kindness was granted undeservedly. Our previous conduct entitled us to nothing but damnation. Yet Christ saved us through the water of rebirth, not on account of any righteousness of our own but because of his mercy. This, I tell you, is God's glory, this is what the heavens have proclaimed. Yes, I repeat, this is God's glory, not yours; for you have done no good at all, yet you have received so much good. If, then, you share in this glory which the heavens have proclaimed, say to the Lord your God, 'You are my God, for your mercy will forestall me' [Ps 58: 11 LXX]." - St. Augustine, Expos. 2 on Psalm 18 (n. 2)
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EO is when you deny basis tenants of Christianity and then call them "Western" and impiously ascribe your same errors to the Eastern Fathers.
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The Sufferings of Christ, compared with the sufferings of the damned in hell. 🧵🧵
Given all of the controversy recently with @Alex_Ortodoxie and the constant slander of the Eastern "Orthodox", where they assert that the Reformed tradition teaches that Christ was properly damned on the cross, I thought it necessary to make a brief thread answering such slanders.
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