God’s final word is called ‘Jesus’ – Pope Francis
“…kids sacrifice so that adults can follow their desires.”
If you listen carefully you can hear the collective crack of ulna’s breaking as the self-congratulatory crowd pats themselves on the back over their Tolerance and Acceptance of the transgendered. Big Media, cultural elites, and gollygeewillikers even the White House are falling all over themselves to swoon over Mister Bruce Jenner and his “transition” to womanhood. Some of the adjectives bandied about describing his coming out include “Brave” and “Courageous”, but all I see is a man lifting a life-long burden from his shoulders and placing it squarely (pun intended) on his children. 
“Oh no no no!” you say?
Because you’ve seen nothing but support from his family, right? This despite some of his children refusing to be involved in the reality TV series documenting his “transition”, and a clip of one daughter who, left the room in tears because she was “simply overwhelmed” when Bruce announced his desire to be a woman.
Overwhelmed with joy, of course. Right?
If all…
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“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me” (John 6:56)
“organizations must rapidly evolve their operating models to adapt to the rules of the digital networks. Some have, but most still have not.”
I’ve spent much of my Memorial Day Holiday here in the United State pondering the Red Queen Effect vs. network effects, seminal laws of technology and business both, that are often held as gospel by their adherents who believe they are the natural and intrinsic properties of their operating environments (digital ecosystems in this case.)
Both hypotheses apply to any connected, relatively closed environment of some kind, which very much includes everything from marketplaces, online communities, app stores, cloud services, SaaS, enterprise social networks, social media, cable/video networks to e-mail, telephones, and package delivery. I cite these, as many of them don’t look at system concepts when trying to figure out why they aren’t succeeding as hoped, despite those very ideas defining the rules of the playing field.
Both Red Queen and network effects have years of rigorous research and thinking to back them up, and as far as…
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“Because we are the Body of Christ, what happens to one, in a sense, happens to all. Whether we know it or not, we are affected when someone leaves the Church. It has to do with being part of the ‘communion of saints’: our actions do impact one another, for good or for bad.”
“Ecclesial sensitivity” urges bishops to “go out to the people of God in order to defend them from the ‘ideological colonization’ that takes away human identity and dignity,” he said. In the past, the pope has used “ideological colonization” to refer to the strong pressure being used to convince people and nations to adopt practices such as same-sex unions and abortion.”
A $20 program that’s better for image noise reduction than Photoshop.
“A Christian faith without Jesus and his radical mission at the center is superficial.”
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article in Time. He writes:
A Christian faith without Jesus and his radical mission at the center is superficial. Too often those entrusted with passing down the faith of Jesus Christ have instead reduced it to what Pope Francis calls “a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.” This version isn’t a meaningful faith that provides life-long meaning for its people and that stands the test of time. It’s a faith without a future.
Make no mistake: Leading with doctrine instead of the person of Jesus simply will not work among today’s skeptical young Americans who are constantly inundated with the false god of consumerism, empty political rhetoric, dictatorships of relativism, a historical fundamentalism, systems of ethics lacking goodness, and intellectual discourse high on privilege and short on wisdom.
The full article can be read here.
‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ – Matthew 25:40 NRSVCE
What about children’s rights?
As you know I am now an Official Bonafide Jet-setter and as such I was in DC (people who move and shake drop the Washington part and now that I am so worldly, well, you know) last weekend for a panel discussion hosted by Alliance Defending Freedom called “What about the children?” They invited me to speak alongside marriage law expert Caleb Dalton and Dr. Paul Sullins who happens to be The Go-To Man on the impact of same-sex parenting. He is responsible for studies that capture data representative of more than all of the oppositions studies represent combined. So basically, with a legal expert and social scientist at my side I just got to show up and blather. Here’s a few blather-inspired video clips:
Is “love makes a family” really a fair thing to say to kids?
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