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Author of “Whose Kids Are They Anyway? Religion, Morality, and America’s Public Schools.” Pastor, professor, rock musician in the band Reckless and Wild.
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America gives up. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

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They defended it, will you? open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Will you defend the Constitution? open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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MAGA morality: Put thousands of federal employees on leave, cut aid that sustains countless lives, demonize your opponents, and then enjoy the suffering of your enemies. But then - when one DOGE worker is fired for vicious racism -say, "Where's the grace and mercy in this country?"

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Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect you from people out to steal your money using fine print & financial instruments they don’t want you to understand. Wolves out to eat your retirement love this tweet, but it is completely immoral, illegal, & unconstitutional.

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Vance reminds me of Jonathan Edwards’ essay “The Nature of True Virtue.” Read my note in Substack. substack.com/@raymondrrob...

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If you are guilty of the sin of empathy, I wrote a prayer for you… out of empathy? open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Elon wasn’t trying to make money. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Where we are. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Eliminating the Civilian Protection Center at the Pentagon is a form of national self-harm. Allowing the distinction to blur between combatants and non-combatants may permit a few short-term victories, but long-term it is self-defeating. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Pardoning the January 6 rioters is a blatant endorsement of political violence that undermines the Constitutional order. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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I am not the president but I am asking companies to break federal law and promising that when I become president they won’t be held responsible because laws only apply if I, personally, want them to. Cool. Cool.

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Politics that stokes anger without proposing solutions is not politics. It is manipulation. -Michael Ignatieff

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Lying corrodes the trust required for democracies to work. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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When I listen to the excuses for Hegseth’s defenders I think of this! youtu.be/T4TlVRsm8v0?...

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When I was in college a bunch of us occasionally simultaneously flushed while a frat bro was showering. He’d emerge cursing and vowing revenge. This caused the low pressure in LA… substack.com/@raymondrrob...

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Creation care is a human calling (Genesis 2:15). Turning away from our responsibilities is, in short, evil.

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Most democracy experts consider Trump’s suit against Selzer a threat to freedom of speech.

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Who can be surprised at Trump threatening Greenland. We knew he was insane. open.substack.com/pub/tracinsk...

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We have a republic if we (all of us) can keep it. youtu.be/8L2apt8WTeQ

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It is important to remember history. Particularly now. If we do not, January 6 may become like the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.

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Cutting the IRS budget is not fiscally responsible. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Is it too much to expect POTUS-elect to act like a grownup? open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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Wrote this Christmas song for non-readers. Ed Alstrom arranged it. www.facebook.com/share/1HYSVu...

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This line from Luke is sticking out: “This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths & lying in a manger.” What sort of sign is this? To let them know they weren’t just getting a birth notice, but getting noticed? He’s not lying in a palace, but a manger. It’s not rhetoric.

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Are there no prisons

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This aged quite well for McCarthy… and quite poorly for Gaetz.

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This did not age well…

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A Christmas meditation. raymondrroberts.substack.com/p/why-mary-a...

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Looking forward to adding new states to the Union, apparently Canada, Greenland, and Panama.

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At a time like this, the children of light can feel like chumps. We wonder, does might make right? Is talk of higher principles simply window dressing for evil? Do principles only matter when we can weaponize them to gain power? raymondrroberts.substack.com/p/the-childr...

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Reinhold Niebuhr speaks to the current challenges of democracy. raymondrroberts.substack.com/p/the-childr...

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Are we all happy with super wealthy Musk telling lawmakers that he will throw them out of power if they don’t fall in Line?

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Who is Musk to tell elected congressional representatives what to do?

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First Amendment freedoms are under attack. We need to step up. open.substack.com/pub/raymondr...

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It seems nuts to have post this, but here we are: Vaccines improve public health.

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