DO NOT forget what prayer can do. Amid all else God’s calling you to do or speak, never for a moment forget that nothing’s more powerful than earnest audacious persistent prayer. The devil—yes, boomer here said the devil, the ever-real prince of vilest darkness—hopes we’ll lose confidence in prayer.

“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” said David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School.

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One *positive* thing that social media will never show you:

All the pastors and Christian leaders who are offered access to power, or photo ops with politicians, who say NO, because it will distract from their mission.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

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“Regardless of how the budget talks go, the biggest immediate beneficiary of the discussion will probably be Trump National Doral Golf Club, which faced steep declines in revenue six years ago.”

Money taken from marginalized Americans even as the president personally benefits from a GOP conference.

Even in the Rotunda during the inauguration ceremony, Boomers are pulling out iPads to take photos

Getting Son1 to submit his college applications felt like a lot of work, even for me, but then I had to submit the FAFSA and CSS and boy howdy.

Read what happened when, 45 years ago, a man holding a frozen chicken knocked on the door of Rob & Dianne Parsons’ home. Beautiful.

Featured in the Christmas edition of The Week. 🎄

I don’t really know what Hers is, but the TV has now told me they have a companion product called Hims. We already have a possessive masculine pronoun: why didn’t they use it? I’m worried about 2025.

Described by some critics as a “nun of art,” the never-married Rossetti was devoted to two seemingly opposing forces: deep Christian conviction and rich artistic sensibility. Both of these influences permeate “In the Bleak Midwinter”:

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The most important question is whether the film includes hippies who walk around and paint stuff, and who find a magical camel they must eat in order to survive.

Son1, sitting down in a chair and almost squashing the cat that's napping on the back cushion: "This cat is always here."

False: sometimes she's on top of the aquarium, under the car, or in the sink.

I'm taking a stand and choosing the "heart healthy" reduced-sodium cream of mushroom soup to combine with the generic Velveeta and canned peas for @serenitynigh.bsky.social 's requested "hot peas" at this year's #2 Thanksgiving dinner. Because holiday vegetables ought to be good for your heart.

Just purchased supplies for Fruitcake Evangelism.

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when you're old enough to have had a xanga and myspace and you're starting over on a new social media app in the year of our lord 2024: