Founder, The Gathering and author of “Where The Light Divides” and “The Edge Of The Inside.”
Tyler, TX
Joined March 2009
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Fred Smith retweeted
Just to be clear, Biden freed these hostages, who Trump left to rot and did nothing for, and part of the deal is that he unfroze some Iranian assets we had seized. No US tax dollars used. Something Fox won’t mention and their audience won’t know.
Fred Smith retweeted
“NO ONE—whether a funder or a donor, of ANY amount—deserves their own special snowflake report about how their specific contribution was deployed or what it achieved”
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Fred Smith retweeted
Those who gather in Nashville are in part a bulwark against the takeover by megachurch music, known as “praise and worship” songs. Critics say these songs come with a theological vagueness and a musical blandness.
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Fred Smith retweeted
Allowing Trump to lie on @MeetThePress and leaving “fact checking” to the website is not how we should be treating a man who launched an insurrection. It’s 2023, we should have learned this lesson over 7 years. Ratings aren’t worth our democracy
Fred Smith retweeted
@GivingReview and @IPS_DC partner with @Philanthropy on September 26 webinar, “Reshaping the Conversation: How to Rebuild Public Trust in Philanthropy” … @Chuck99to1 @RCK52 @janmasaoka @DeanZerbe @stacypalmer thegivingreview.com/giving-r…
“Human morality must win this war,” Zelensky said. And our success, the specific success of Ukraine, depends not only on us, on Ukrainians, but also on the extent to which the entire vast moral space of the world wants to preserve itself.” nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opini…
Fred Smith retweeted
🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert:
@MittRomney: “I’m not going to be supporting Donald Trump under any circumstance. I happen to believe character is destiny.”
Enough said. Thanks, Mitt.
Fred Smith retweeted
This is fun to see. Our story about Stephen Mason (aka Soccer Moses) was picked up by the AP.
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“(Romney had long been put off by Pence’s pious brand of Trump sycophancy. No one, he told me, has been “more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God’s will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.”)
Fred Smith retweeted
A lot in here, but here's Mitt Romney on Mike Pence, per @mckaycoppins:
"No one, he told me, has been 'more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God’s will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.'" theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Fred Smith retweeted
Mitt Romney: “A very large portion of my party...really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”
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Fred Smith retweeted
“I had a whole entire life before this”: Must-read recap of the story of Brandon Cammack, a young attorney who testified that he was hired, misled, used and then stiffed by Ken Paxton to help Nate Paul. via @McGeeReports @TexasTribune texastribune.org/2023/09/12/…
Fred Smith retweeted
“Practices like participatory grantmaking and unrestricted support have their proponents, but they also raise uncomfortable questions about what all these highly educated, pedigreed personnel actually bring to the table.”
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Fred Smith retweeted
A post on a relatively obscure blog about quitting the pastorate led to a national conversation about the challenges that clergy face-- and whether or not its ok to talk about them
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@iamfujimura “Lang’s congregation gave him a piece of Kintsugi art — made from broken pottery mended with gold. That kind of pottery was a metaphor for his life, he said, that despite the struggles and his own failings, there is still beauty.” religionnews.com/2023/09/11/…
“Roberta Green Ahmanson writes about Augustine's City of God and considers how throughout history Christians have sought to portray the new Jerusalem through their church architecture.” mailchi.mp/ttf/what-were-rea…
“Yet whether Soros sincerely believes in the righteousness of the causes that he sponsors or whether he thinks they serve his material interests, is beside the point.”
@battleforeurope wonders in @unherd “whether it is acceptable, in democratic societies, for a single individual to use his wealth and influence ... to shape the culture and politics of entire nations.” unherd.com/2023/09/is-this-t…
