Value-Truth
“Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be “finished.”
Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle... See more
Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle... See more
“Success is often found by practicing the fundamentals everyone knows they should be doing, but find too boring or basic to practice routinely.”
A Theology of Community and Action (James McBride)
God is encountered not in purity or power, but in flawed communities that choose mercy over safety. Faith is proven through action, especially when institutions fail and outcomes are uncertain. Heaven touches earth when ordinary people protect the vulnerable, cross boundaries, and bear one another’s
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“oppression needs embodiment. The greatest defense against the dehumanization of a people is humanizing them. We need to say the names of those who are deported, disappeared, and mistreated. We need to insist on those names being heard and known, condensing sympathies with a piercing clarity. ”
The Dalai Lama on being honest:
“If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion, or jealousy.”
“If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion, or jealousy.”
The Spectrum of Independence
Writer G. K. Chesterton reminds us to not be carried along by life, but to live with energy, will, and conviction:
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
Source: The Everlasting Man
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
Source: The Everlasting Man
3-2-1: On the ultimate form of preparation, how to increase your power, and living with conviction
And inasmuch as MacArthur or any others reject or even obstruct the American church’s efforts to repent of injustice, imitate Christ, and heal our country’s racism, sexism, and economic inequalities, they will only find themselves fighting against God.
Justin Giboney • Why John MacArthur Is Wrong About MLK
And I include myself in the criticism. We as the American church need to take more ownership for our collective sin, our obsession with things that will not make an ounce of difference in heaven, and our failure (past and present) to stand up and speak up for the poor, for the stranger, for the ones who don’t look like us.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
American Christian.
Do we pursue so zealously foreign missions so that we can ignore the injustice we are complicit in?
Raising money and awareness.
“Slumming” to salve the festering boils of our willful ignorance of all that surrounds us and which we partake in, our complicity
Today - January 25, 2026 - we began carrying Camille’s passport.
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