HeyJaredAndy Smith
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For It Is In Giving... (opens the original)
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Perspective is everything. So is learning and thinking critically. So is self-reflection and, as importantly, self-denial, self-giving, self-limitation, and selflessness…for the greater good. Or, in today’s parlance, for “the big picture.” All of this is everything.Forces at work today in our country are the antithesis of the above “everything.” One person has brought up to half the nation and one of our two political parties to its knees. Demonstrably, the entire Republican party has sworn a cu
Will We Ever Be Outraged? (opens the original)
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Yesterday’s primary elections in six states brought interesting results. A moderate Democrat barely won the gubernatorial nod in Wisconsin over a Democrat Socialist. A progressive Democrat Senate candidate blitzed through a current moderate incumbent House candidate for the federal Senate seat from Minnesota. Lindsey Graham’s sister is being sent to a run-off in the South Carolina federal Republican Senate race.Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Tom Homan are tripling-down on ICE enforcement. Today, th
For Joy (opens the original)
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I am an ELCA Lutheran pastor. Proclaiming the Gospel is my highest calling and responsibility. The Gospel “good news” of the Christian Bible ultimately is “Jesus was raised from the dead.” If God could raise Jesus from death, God can raise you and anyone and anything from death. Period. And God does. This is the promise of faith.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Vo2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-medi
America the Fragile (opens the original)
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“I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”I learned this famous poem from a favorite Lit teacher. It resonated immediately. My parents were staunch supporters of teaching us that the easy road is most often NOT the road to take. The hard road is. The hard road teaches us to be awake and aware, wise and discerning, and apprecia
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