Alex Ford
@alexford.bsky.social
Christianus sum.
PCA pastor in Wisconsin. Appreciates nuance. BCO nerd. Mostly harmless.
PCA pastor in Wisconsin. Appreciates nuance. BCO nerd. Mostly harmless.
Pinned
Alex Ford
@alexford.bsky.social
· Jun 14
κύριος Ἰησοῦς χριστὸς — οὐκ ἐστίν ἄλλη
This flow chart is also valid for predictions of the precise date of Christ’s return…
![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This flow chart is also valid for predictions of the precise date of Christ’s return…
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Ellis:
"It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."
"It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Ellis:
"It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."
"It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."
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A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.
Not sure if it’s rule #1, but it’s close to the top:
As a pastor, never evaluate Sunday before Tuesday.
Monday is brutal.
As a pastor, never evaluate Sunday before Tuesday.
Monday is brutal.
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Not sure if it’s rule #1, but it’s close to the top:
As a pastor, never evaluate Sunday before Tuesday.
Monday is brutal.
As a pastor, never evaluate Sunday before Tuesday.
Monday is brutal.
This is how you get Jurassic Park. And Planet of the Apes. And 12 Monkeys. And Terminator. And The Matrix. And Soylent Green. And The Stand. And...
August 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is how you get Jurassic Park. And Planet of the Apes. And 12 Monkeys. And Terminator. And The Matrix. And Soylent Green. And The Stand. And...
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The reason I don’t want a “Christian nation” isn’t because I’m against Christianity.
It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church crawling into bed with the empire.
The separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.
It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church crawling into bed with the empire.
The separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.
August 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The reason I don’t want a “Christian nation” isn’t because I’m against Christianity.
It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church crawling into bed with the empire.
The separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.
It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church crawling into bed with the empire.
The separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.
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The work of the church is not the call to ministry. Our true work is that of manifesting likeness to Christ in all things, whether in success or failure, criticism or praise. If numbers, growth, and fame were God’s measures, then Jesus would be deemed a failure.
August 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The work of the church is not the call to ministry. Our true work is that of manifesting likeness to Christ in all things, whether in success or failure, criticism or praise. If numbers, growth, and fame were God’s measures, then Jesus would be deemed a failure.
This is an amazing quote from Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, proud son of Virginia.
Thomas served in various post-war military positions in the South where he created military commissions to override local racist courts. He also used US troops to thwart KKK attacks.
Thomas also had VERY clear opinions on people trying to redeem the Confederacy or downplay its actions. /8
Thomas also had VERY clear opinions on people trying to redeem the Confederacy or downplay its actions. /8
![[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5h5jfgi7vuqp4bkfogcntzep/bafkreigrn5wdgi73kj332xmdann6wqj6xja4dndgq57kngn3ndbvtlfaie@jpeg)
July 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is an amazing quote from Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, proud son of Virginia.
"Robert E. Lee and Me" by BG Ty Seidule (ret.) is an excellent reflection on the effects of growing up in the cult of Lee and then learning to see the truth. (www.pritzkermilitary.org/resources/bo...)
July 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Robert E. Lee and Me" by BG Ty Seidule (ret.) is an excellent reflection on the effects of growing up in the cult of Lee and then learning to see the truth. (www.pritzkermilitary.org/resources/bo...)
The national stain of chattel slavery wasn’t sufficiently shameful, apparently. The Trumpets think we needed to emulate the worst parts of the Third Reich, too…
Reports indicate that several other red states are now considering opening camps similar to the one in Florida. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina publicly requested a facility, tweeting, “Dear DHS: We’ve got a swamp and a dream. Let’s talk. South Carolina’s gators are ready.”
July 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The national stain of chattel slavery wasn’t sufficiently shameful, apparently. The Trumpets think we needed to emulate the worst parts of the Third Reich, too…
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5 years ago, after doing some genealogy work where I discovered enslavement in my family’s past, I wrote this reflection on the Declaration of Independence that shaped the destiny of our nation and the wills that shaped the destiny of enslaved persons.
therodandstaff.com/2020/12/04/o...
therodandstaff.com/2020/12/04/o...
Owning Merica
Originally published at Real Clear Politics on July 24, 2020
I don’t know what I was looking for when I started researching my ancestry, but what I found was Merica.
Merica, short for America, w...
therodandstaff.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
5 years ago, after doing some genealogy work where I discovered enslavement in my family’s past, I wrote this reflection on the Declaration of Independence that shaped the destiny of our nation and the wills that shaped the destiny of enslaved persons.
therodandstaff.com/2020/12/04/o...
therodandstaff.com/2020/12/04/o...
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...
June 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...
“War does not determine who is right. Only who is left.”
— Anonymous
“You do not drift into peace: you drift into war.”
— Jessie W. Sayre
— Anonymous
“You do not drift into peace: you drift into war.”
— Jessie W. Sayre
June 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“War does not determine who is right. Only who is left.”
— Anonymous
“You do not drift into peace: you drift into war.”
— Jessie W. Sayre
— Anonymous
“You do not drift into peace: you drift into war.”
— Jessie W. Sayre
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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5. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
5. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop
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It's probably a good thing I am on break from my church work right now. Who knows what I might say tomorrow morning. One thing I know, we must pray for peace.
June 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's probably a good thing I am on break from my church work right now. Who knows what I might say tomorrow morning. One thing I know, we must pray for peace.
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me."
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
June 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me."
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
"War does not determine who is right; only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
I think that there are too many people on here (and other places, I'm sure) that are salivating over a civil war.
My war experience is limited, and barely enough to be mentionable outside of the most innocent company, but allow me to say this:
War is bad.
My war experience is limited, and barely enough to be mentionable outside of the most innocent company, but allow me to say this:
War is bad.
June 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"War does not determine who is right; only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
κύριος Ἰησοῦς χριστὸς — οὐκ ἐστίν ἄλλη
June 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
κύριος Ἰησοῦς χριστὸς — οὐκ ἐστίν ἄλλη
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The church has always been at its best when it stands with the crucified, not the crucifiers.
June 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The church has always been at its best when it stands with the crucified, not the crucifiers.
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“No King But Christ.” What does this mean?
Read my latest article here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/no-kin...
Read my latest article here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/no-kin...
"No King But Christ."
benjamin-cremer.kit.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“No King But Christ.” What does this mean?
Read my latest article here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/no-kin...
Read my latest article here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/no-kin...
Several years ago, the #PCAGA had the chance to declare that political violence was anti-Christ. A clear, well-written and -researched statement was presented to our national meeting for approval.
It is deeply to our shame that we weren’t willing to pass it.
We are not leaders, but captives.
It is deeply to our shame that we weren’t willing to pass it.
We are not leaders, but captives.
June 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Several years ago, the #PCAGA had the chance to declare that political violence was anti-Christ. A clear, well-written and -researched statement was presented to our national meeting for approval.
It is deeply to our shame that we weren’t willing to pass it.
We are not leaders, but captives.
It is deeply to our shame that we weren’t willing to pass it.
We are not leaders, but captives.
A warning from the past––and maybe a prophecy for the near future.
“The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available at too low a cost.
1/6
“The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available at too low a cost.
1/6
June 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A warning from the past––and maybe a prophecy for the near future.
“The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available at too low a cost.
1/6
“The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available at too low a cost.
1/6
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Christianity does not look like praying and singing and giving money while ignoring the screams, unspeakable suffering, filth, and death of others. Christianity is not calling others *them*—somehow unlike us, not human, deserving of their suffering.
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Christianity does not look like praying and singing and giving money while ignoring the screams, unspeakable suffering, filth, and death of others. Christianity is not calling others *them*—somehow unlike us, not human, deserving of their suffering.