Though I am a lover of soccer (international football), I appreciate American football, too. Got some of my current favorite beer, New Belgium Trippel Ale, chips and salsa, etc. Here’s to the game of America!
Month: February 2024
More China trouble
China has its tentacles into our
infrastructure. While the nation is diverted with other important issues. Also been watching the border situation get worse. When mainstream media outlets report on the issue then you know it’s not fake news.
“Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 37,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended as they illegally crossed the border; that’s 50 times more than two years earlier.”
Chaos reigns.
Old Friends
Met with my esteemed ex-Professor Art Seamans (https://www.facebook.com/art.seamans). Ate dinner and discussed PLNU, bible school, professions, (a little) politics, family. At 92, so sprightly and interesting.
Christian nationalism without the nationalism
Just watched the PBS Newshour segment on Brad Onishi, who is a former evangelical minister who once identified as a “Christian nationalist.” The term is just too broad. During the segment he assumes that white evangelicals are the source of pro-Trump activism. He now hosts a (supposedly-popular) podcast “Straight White American Jesus” and wrote “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next.” Let’s just say that not many people are going to buy something the mainstream media gives them for free every day.
His failure to differentiate a small minority of people who actually say they are “Christian nationalists” from other right-wing and mainstream evangelicals is just an attempt to promote himself. The segment interviewed no subjects who would consider themselves Christian nationalists.
Poor segment, poor analysis.