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Liturgy Matters

A cautionary tale for pastors who want to monkey with the liturgy, especially by replacing or removing the creeds, severing your connection to the ancient Church by commission or omission, and not practicing and teaching the sign of the cross:

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Is Diversity our Strength?

Is diversity a strength?

We’re told over and over again, like a mantra or a litany that “Diversity is our strength.” It is not just a possible strength, not a strength in some situations, not even merely “a strength,” but it is “our strength.” And it is stated as a dogma, one that calls for the excommunication of anyone who denies this particular confession of faith.

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Cancel Culture and the Cross

I have to admit that I’m not a big podcast guy. I don’t spend time commuting, and I just don’t have a lot of opportunities to invest the time needed to listen to all of the great podcasts out there. But podcasting is a tremendous vehicle for a wider diversity of voices to speak and to be heard, to bypass the Marxist and Luciferian gatekeepers of media and popular culture, and to hear alternative points of view - which are essential to the well-rounded mind.

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The Red Trojan Horse

John Lennon’s Imagine is a true Marxist anthem, one that some have suggested replace the allegedly racist Star Spangled Banner, as our national anthem. Indeed, it became an ironic act of megarich celebrity do-gooderism that was hilariously panned even by the New York Times. The proposed canonization of this persistent Communist pop-song is one small part of the current disorienting and revolutionary Anschluß against anything traditional in American culture.

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