Cindy Fogleman
@cindyfogleman.bsky.social
Independent. Shaped by experience with Congress, Executive Branch, private business and nonprofits. Jesus follower.
“According to the Pew Research Center, Americans now hold negative views of evangelical Christians in higher percentages than of any other religious group.”
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Evangelical Vatican’ - Christianity Today
Why Colorado Springs no longer shapes evangelicalism as it once did.
www.christianitytoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“According to the Pew Research Center, Americans now hold negative views of evangelical Christians in higher percentages than of any other religious group.”
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Big companies are running into a roadblock to getting all of their Trump tax cuts: the corporate tax increase that Democrats passed three years ago.
Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Exposing Companies to Biden’s Tax Hike
Democrats’ older alternative minimum tax claws back billions of dollars in savings from the newer GOP law.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Big companies are running into a roadblock to getting all of their Trump tax cuts: the corporate tax increase that Democrats passed three years ago.
I am “in.” Before the Christmas buying frenzy begins, consider signing up to support this initiative from the Center for Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. It says: “This holiday season arrives at a moment of deep moral and spiritual reckoning…”
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I am “in.” Before the Christmas buying frenzy begins, consider signing up to support this initiative from the Center for Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. It says: “This holiday season arrives at a moment of deep moral and spiritual reckoning…”
“Kevin Foster, 64, a retired business consultant in Lafayette, Calif., logged on to the state marketplace…The couple’s monthly insurance bill of about $580 will shoot up to more than $3,200, or an annual cost of more than $38,000.”
What to Know About Signing Up for ACA Health Plans as Rates Rise
This year more than ever, Affordable Care Act enrollees need to choose plans carefully because their insurance costs could increase substantially.
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Kevin Foster, 64, a retired business consultant in Lafayette, Calif., logged on to the state marketplace…The couple’s monthly insurance bill of about $580 will shoot up to more than $3,200, or an annual cost of more than $38,000.”
Well said.
Apartheid was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a matter of power, not justice. -Jose Antonio Vargas
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October 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Well said.
Please pray for Speaker Johnson. He is a Christian brother and Constitutional lawyer. How beautiful if his heart could be softened by listening not to Trump but to Jesus’ words on Truth, loving God and your neighbor, and caring for the Least of These. Speaker Johnson stands at the pivot of history.
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Please pray for Speaker Johnson. He is a Christian brother and Constitutional lawyer. How beautiful if his heart could be softened by listening not to Trump but to Jesus’ words on Truth, loving God and your neighbor, and caring for the Least of These. Speaker Johnson stands at the pivot of history.
Reposted by Cindy Fogleman
"A billion dollars in the bank account is the spiritual equivalent of radioactive waste in your refrigerator."
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A Christian Plan to Help Billionaires
There is no logical reason for people to live like this. We should help them.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"A billion dollars in the bank account is the spiritual equivalent of radioactive waste in your refrigerator."
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In Axios AM today:
“The Americans who own the most guns aren't hunters or veterans or cops — they're white evangelical Christians….Evangelicals also run major gun manufacturing companies,”according to a new book…”In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms."
“The Americans who own the most guns aren't hunters or veterans or cops — they're white evangelical Christians….Evangelicals also run major gun manufacturing companies,”according to a new book…”In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms."
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In Axios AM today:
“The Americans who own the most guns aren't hunters or veterans or cops — they're white evangelical Christians….Evangelicals also run major gun manufacturing companies,”according to a new book…”In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms."
“The Americans who own the most guns aren't hunters or veterans or cops — they're white evangelical Christians….Evangelicals also run major gun manufacturing companies,”according to a new book…”In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms."
Thank you, Mitchell Atencio @sojo.net ! Powerful interview with Lecrae: “But I do think there can be a healthy deconstruction. Jesus did it all the time. He would say, “You’ve heard it said … but I say.” Right? “Let me take down what you’ve believed forever and let me give you something different.”
How ‘Reconstruction’ Changed Lecrae’s View of American Christianity
From the existence of demons to support for Israel, the Christian hip-hop luminary says he rebuilt his faith beyond Western Christendom.
sojo.net
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thank you, Mitchell Atencio @sojo.net ! Powerful interview with Lecrae: “But I do think there can be a healthy deconstruction. Jesus did it all the time. He would say, “You’ve heard it said … but I say.” Right? “Let me take down what you’ve believed forever and let me give you something different.”
Love the full page ad from We Hold These Truths” in today’s WSJ. Once I saw that Judge Luttig signed, I signed too. Please join me.
We Hold These Truths
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September 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Love the full page ad from We Hold These Truths” in today’s WSJ. Once I saw that Judge Luttig signed, I signed too. Please join me.
Just this morning I wrote an email to a journalist for a center right publication, asking for factual reporting on Charlie Kirk’s words. Then I just found this. Please read if you have questions like I do. Thank you Baptist News Global!
Charlie Kirk in his own words – Baptist News Global
All these comments were either said publicly or posted on social media by Charlie Kirk, many of them in the last weeks of his life.
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September 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just this morning I wrote an email to a journalist for a center right publication, asking for factual reporting on Charlie Kirk’s words. Then I just found this. Please read if you have questions like I do. Thank you Baptist News Global!
Reposted by Cindy Fogleman
Frustration is growing in Israel over plans for a new military offensive in some of Gaza's most populated areas.
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Israel's growing frustration over the war in Gaza erupts in nationwide protests
Frustration is growing in Israel over plans for a new military offensive in some of Gaza's most populated areas.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Frustration is growing in Israel over plans for a new military offensive in some of Gaza's most populated areas.
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Thank you, @wsj.com for standing up to Trump: “The Trump team is claiming that college scholarships for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients somehow discriminate against native-born Americans. But this is really the government discriminating against DACA students.” Amen.
Opinion | Discriminating Against DACA Students
The feds claim schools can’t offer scholarships to the Dreamers.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thank you, @wsj.com for standing up to Trump: “The Trump team is claiming that college scholarships for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients somehow discriminate against native-born Americans. But this is really the government discriminating against DACA students.” Amen.
Love this story! For a minute I can forget the cruelty and corruption we witness daily in the highest office in the land and see the beauty of the human spirit from these students. ❤️
TJ Students Develop Tool Helping People With Disabilities More Easily Use Computers
An app seeking to make computer use more accessible for people with disabilities is the brainchild of local high school students.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Love this story! For a minute I can forget the cruelty and corruption we witness daily in the highest office in the land and see the beauty of the human spirit from these students. ❤️
What horrific depravity. Thank you, Baptist News Global, for revealing this history. There are not enough tears…Close Alligator Alcatraz immediately!
The forgotten horror of feeding Black babies to alligators
Beneath this controversial policy of Alligator Alcatraz lies an even more chilling historical echo, Edmond Davis warns.
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July 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What horrific depravity. Thank you, Baptist News Global, for revealing this history. There are not enough tears…Close Alligator Alcatraz immediately!
As John Lewis asked us: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
So let us rise.
Let us vote.
Let us speak.
Let us love boldly.
Let us get in Good Trouble—until justice prevails.
— Rev. Moya Harris, Director of Racial Justice, Sojourners
So let us rise.
Let us vote.
Let us speak.
Let us love boldly.
Let us get in Good Trouble—until justice prevails.
— Rev. Moya Harris, Director of Racial Justice, Sojourners
July 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As John Lewis asked us: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
So let us rise.
Let us vote.
Let us speak.
Let us love boldly.
Let us get in Good Trouble—until justice prevails.
— Rev. Moya Harris, Director of Racial Justice, Sojourners
So let us rise.
Let us vote.
Let us speak.
Let us love boldly.
Let us get in Good Trouble—until justice prevails.
— Rev. Moya Harris, Director of Racial Justice, Sojourners
Prove it. Gov. Youngkin should release the criminal records of all those arrested by ICE with VA law enforcement collaboration. I am so embarrassed my state is one of the top collaborators with ICE.
'They should be arrested': Youngkin holds firm on support for ICE raids at Virginia courthouses • Virginia Mercury
Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday doubled down on the controversial use of courthouse arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, brushing off criticism that some of the individuals ...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Prove it. Gov. Youngkin should release the criminal records of all those arrested by ICE with VA law enforcement collaboration. I am so embarrassed my state is one of the top collaborators with ICE.
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This shocked me. I live in N Virginia and there has been little on local news about this aggressive deportation policy. How can our Governor be one of Trump’s biggest ICE henchmen?
Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests
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July 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This shocked me. I live in N Virginia and there has been little on local news about this aggressive deportation policy. How can our Governor be one of Trump’s biggest ICE henchmen?
Anyone else watching House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries deliver a marathon speech against the Trump budget bill? I am in AWE. Almost 5 hours so far and no sign of letting up. Making history. All TV stations should be broadcasting it live.
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Anyone else watching House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries deliver a marathon speech against the Trump budget bill? I am in AWE. Almost 5 hours so far and no sign of letting up. Making history. All TV stations should be broadcasting it live.
Thank you, AOC. Words that need to be said.
The Truth
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingnewsworld/s/tSDkZwwtnB
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July 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thank you, AOC. Words that need to be said.
“We are called to dissent against complacency in our own churches.”
Dissent against injustice inflicted upon ‘the least of these,’
He received a sustained standing ovation — perhaps unprecedented in CBF’s history — at the conclusion of his comments as outgoing moderator.
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June 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“We are called to dissent against complacency in our own churches.”
“In a recent panel appearance, David Brooks argued that researchers at Boston University estimate that 55,000 adults and 6,000 children have died in just the four months since the dismantling of PEPFAR began.” For my Trump-supporting, pro life Christian friends, demand PEPFAR’s restoration! Please!
PEPFAR and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity - Christianity Today
It was Christianity that taught the world that every person ought to matter. Now is not the time to abandon or betray that truth.
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June 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“In a recent panel appearance, David Brooks argued that researchers at Boston University estimate that 55,000 adults and 6,000 children have died in just the four months since the dismantling of PEPFAR began.” For my Trump-supporting, pro life Christian friends, demand PEPFAR’s restoration! Please!
Maybe it is time for a change. Accrued experience with profit making insurance companies shows the free market is not delivering results, and middlemen and fraud are part of unnecessary costs. Health, like public education. Is a universal public good.
U.S. could have the best health care. But not if profit-driven private sector keeps control. • Kentucky Lantern
The U.S. could have the best health care in the world. We just can’t have it while leaving the private sector in control of our health care.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Maybe it is time for a change. Accrued experience with profit making insurance companies shows the free market is not delivering results, and middlemen and fraud are part of unnecessary costs. Health, like public education. Is a universal public good.
Love Maxwell’s “30 Second Rule” whether it’s in business or personal!
The 30 Second Rule
As Finance professionals, if we want to add value to our organisation, we’ve likely got to achieve it through others. And the ‘30 Second Rule’ might just help do that.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Love Maxwell’s “30 Second Rule” whether it’s in business or personal!