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That and the cellphones, the young people rarely pull their gaze away to even think on doing good for others, as they check to see what the 'latest' is in fashion, fads, or face creams to say the least, or ways to get more worldly possessions for themselves...

The dirt speaks, the rocks hum, and the gospel goes live from a pile of melted sand. The children were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David.” The priests hated it. That’s always the way with the truth. People in […] The post The Silicon Prophets: When the Children Go Silent and the Rocks Start Preaching appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom® - News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom. View the full article

Thanksgiving is a time when families come together. But for many immigrant families across the United States, a knock at the door could mean separation instead of reunion. It’s hard to give thanks when you’re afraid to answer the door. […] The post “Before the Knock” Video Offers Urgent Advice on Immigration Enforcement appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom® - News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom. View the full article

By Michael Peabody Scandal Before It BeganShe was young. A girl, really. Barely old enough to carry a child, let alone carry the weight of scandal. Mary knew what had happened. She knew the angel’s words, the promise from heaven, […] The post Born Under Judgment: The Scandalous Birth and Triumph of Mercy appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom® - News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom. View the full article

Churches seeking exceptions should tread carefully. When everything becomes a right, the system stops working. There’s a quiet strategy playing out in the case of Dad’s Place in Bryan, Ohio — and in courtrooms across the country. When regulatory pressure […] The post Shortcuts and Shields: Why Legal Workarounds Threaten the Longevity of Religious Freedom appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom® - News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom. View the full article

Letter calling for withdrawal from UN consultative status raises important questions but needs fuller understanding of what that status actually involves On November 19, 2025, a group of Seventh-day Adventist members submitted a letter to leaders of the General Conference […] The post Church at the Crossroads: Why Adventist Engagement with the United Nations Deserves Careful Study, Not Sudden Exit appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom® - News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom. View the full article

Interesting. Thank you for posting this. Yes, the free services are not free. Data brokers today are having a field day.

As an old guy, I never remember seeing this behavior prior to 2000s. I wonder if the Internet has caused/contributed to this?

I want to read that. Thank you for posting this.

Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-shooting-migration-17bc0655f4544cc702623574ed08eb62? ps:This is exactly what he was hoping for and fortunately it was not anyone living in DC, but from out of town from what I can gather!!

🎗️ Charities brace for rough holiday Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios As rising prices and fallout from the government shutdown squeeze Americans' budgets, many are unable to give back this holiday season — and charities are feeling the strain, Axios' Julianna Bragg reports. 🪙 The Salvation Army will need to surpass last year's roughly $100 million total to help the 28 million Americans it serves, national community relations and development secretary Dale Bannon tells Axios. 🧥 One Warm Coat, which provides outerwear to people in need nationwide, saw a nearly 25% increase in nonprofits applying for coats through the program this year. In Feeding America's most recent survey of partner food banks, 95% reported equal or higher demand in October versus September. The data reveals "the shock that the shutdown caused for neighbors needing food assistance and the food banks and agencies working to provide support," says Monica Lopez Gonzalez, the group's chief marketing and communications officer. Go deeper.

From the article: AT: What is your hope for your ministry moving forward? SG: I hope that through me, people can get the chance to really get to know a queer person as a person first, and maybe open their minds and hearts to others in the process. When they already know you, it is harder to judge a book by its cover because they already know that the content of the pages are filled with actual humanity. I hope that our churches become places where queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, and intersex people can feel at home, loved, and accepted. Where we can openly live our partnerships, and dress and present the way we want, just as our heterosexual siblings are able to.

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Inside the White House meeting that launched Ukraine peace talks Skyline of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. Photo: Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images President Trump kickstarted the latest peace talks in Ukraine last week after Vice President Vance, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, made the case that a new 28-point plan could bring a breakthrough, administration officials tell Axios' Marc Caputo. Why it matters: Their White House meeting on Nov. 18 — unreported until now — laid the groundwork for the talks in Geneva last weekend that have given the administration more hope than ever of stopping the war. In the talks, U.S. and Ukrainian officials narrowed a list of 28 conditions in the proposed peace plan to 20 items, and reached substantive agreement on 18. A senior administration official said the other two points haven't been discussed publicly "because they're delicate issues." Those two issues are likely Ukrainian territorial concessions to the invading Russians and security guarantees for Ukraine to deter more Russian aggression. During the White House strategy meeting, Trump recommended that U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, a friend of Vance's, take the proposal to Ukraine because he already was planning to visit Kyiv to assess its fighting capabilities and spirit, another source said. "It was Dan Driscoll's role, basically, to take an honest assessment of where their military situation stood by interacting directly with their military," the official said. "One of the hardest things to judge is the will to fight." 🥊 Friction point: When Rubio flew to Geneva over the weekend to hammer out more details of the plan with Ukraine, it helped trigger an explosion of online chatter and news articles that claimed there was a divide between Vance and Rubio on Ukraine. Rubio took to X on Tuesday night to dispute a story about a "rift" with Vance, writing: "These people don't just get things wrong, they literally make things up." One of the officials said: "There's this false narrative that there are two competing teams — this Marco Rubio pro-Ukraine team, and then there's JD Vance anti-Ukraine team. It's just not true. ... You can't survive here in this administration if you take that approach. There's only one team here." 🔎 Between the lines: Administration officials and advisers close to Vance and Rubio say the two have worked as a tag team throughout the process, a vestige of their time as friends and allies when they served together in the Senate. Their top staffers are friends and the two share an adviser, Andrew Baker.

Prolonging the Conflict View in browser Pay attention to the dates, because the timing matters. Steve Witkoff spoke with Yuri Ushakov, a Russian official, on October 14. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on October 17. Trump had been hinting that he would offer to sell Tomahawks, long-range cruise missiles, to the Ukrainian army. But he did not. Why not? Perhaps because Ushakov listened to Witkoff’s advice and persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin to call Trump on October 16. Witkoff, in other words, may have helped block that sale. And that would make Witkoff responsible for prolonging the war. Let me back up and explain. Witkoff, a former real-estate developer, is supposed to be negotiating a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine. He is in theory acting on behalf of the United States but also on behalf of millions of people who want peace in Ukraine and security in Europe. Ushakov, a former Russian ambassador to the United States, has different interests: Like his boss, he wants Russia to win the war. A tape of the October 14 conversation has been leaked to Bloomberg. That’s how we know Witkoff suggested to Ushakov that Putin call Trump. He also offered advice about what Putin should say. The Russian leader should flatter Trump, of course, which is standard advice for speaking to the American president: “Compliment him on his great success in Gaza, congratulate the president on this achievement.” After that, Witkoff said, “It’s going to be a really good call.” Then, Witkoff advised, Putin should impress upon Trump this idea: “The Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. I told the president I believe that.” Together, the two of them would cook up a peace plan, just like Trump’s recent Gaza peace plan. Ushakov gave Putin this advice. Putin followed it. How do we know? Because Putin did, in fact, call Trump, on October 16. The call lasted for more than two hours. Trump said the call was productive, and that the two leaders would soon meet, potentially in Budapest (which never happened). During his meeting with Zelensky on the following day, he did not offer Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Instead, he became emotional and angry. In keeping with a long-standing Russian demand, Trump tried to persuade the Ukrainians to give up Ukrainian land in Donetsk province that they currently control—land that the Russians have not been able to conquer after more than a decade of fighting. This is what Putin wants: to obtain Ukrainian territory without fighting for it, to weaken Ukraine, and to use any temporary cease-fire as an opportunity to plan the next invasion. “With a single phone call,” one insider told Politico last month, “Putin appears to have changed President Trump’s mind on Ukraine once again.” This was Witkoff’s achievement. Working with another Kremlin insider, Kirill Dmitriev, he went on last week to propose the 28-point peace plan that could, if carried out, temporarily stop the fighting but position Russia to invade a weakened Ukraine at a later date. I’ve written this before, but it cannot be repeated often enough: This war will end only when Russia stops fighting. The Russians need to halt the invasion, recognize the sovereignty of Ukraine, and drop their imperial ambitions. Then Ukraine can discuss borders, prisoners, and the fate of thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children. But the only way to persuade Russia to stop fighting is to put pressure on Russia. Not Ukraine, Russia. The Ukrainians have already said they will stop fighting and agree to a cease-fire right now, on the current lines of conflict. Yet Witkoff is seeking to persuade Trump not to put pressure on Russia, and we don’t really know why. Witkoff has no previous diplomatic experience, so perhaps he is naive. He spent many years in New York real estate, at a time when Russians were spending fortunes on property, so perhaps he feels gratitude. Maybe he’s helping Russia win because he has “the deepest respect for President Putin,” as he told Ushakov, and admires his brutality. Maybe he, or others in the White House entourage, have business interests tied to Russia—or hope to. In addition to discussing “peace,” Witkoff has also been, according to the document made public last week, talking with the Russians about American investments “in the areas of energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data centers, rare earth metal extraction projects in the Arctic.” Whatever the reason, Witkoff is prolonging the conflict. He is not promoting peace. His call to Ushakov was not, as Trump said last night, a normal negotiating tactic. Every time he intervenes, advocating for Putin’s positions, he encourages the Russians to think they can get Trump on their side, pull America away from Europe, break up NATO, and win the war. In other words, every time he intervenes on behalf of the Russians, he contributes to the deaths of Ukrainians, the attacks on infrastructure, the ongoing tragedy that affects millions of people. If this were a normal American administration, he would be fired immediately. But nothing about this negotiation, or this administration, is normal at all. Related: Trump’s real secretary of state The murky plan that ensures a future war

It seems that there is a distraction from the things of God among His people, especially His love when it comes to each other. A loss of Godly affection, true brotherly love, the caring for others and any anguish and contrition for harming one another and forgetting what we have been given, to love your neighbor. Instead Christians, have turned into the type of person who is beyond experiencing guilt, shame, or regret for their terrible actions against others, because they loose Godly affection and all they care about is themselves and nobody else.. They have become ‘remorseless', and 'uncaring', with only the things of self. They form a character defined by narcissism with an exaggerated sense of self-importance, looking for others to focus on them and give them worldly 'praise' and 'honor'. Many forget what God in His Word tells us... 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 2 Timothy 2:24-25 24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

Telescope in Chile captures stunning new picture of a cosmic butterfly CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. https://apnews.com/article/butterfly-nebula-telescope-space-2810ed49f9f4ee3c9a9ab58e878b5b7c?

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and Cyprus signed a long-delayed sea border agreement on Wednesday, ending an almost 20-year impasse that had stalled some oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean Sea, as Europe seeks alternatives to Russian fuel. https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-cyprus-maritime-border-gas-8c3124c682321f6cf9e1c7b0af146224?

Thel Seventh-day Adventist Church asks LGBTQ members and pastors who are not in a traditional marriage to live a celibate life. I note the Conference that employes him has stated, my words, that he had not engaged in any conduct that would warrant disciplinary action. Here is what the Conference actually said, in part: " That a thorough discussion had shown that there is no reason at the moment for the certification of Saša Gunjević to be withdrawn. That Gunjević had not committed a disciplinary offense that would prevent him from continuing to exercise pastoral ministry."

3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 36 dead and 279 reported missing Police in Hong Kong arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter, several local news media reported, in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 36 people and left another 279 missing in the city’s deadliest fire in years. Read more. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ WATCH: Many people killed by fire at a high-rise Hong Kong housing complex

🤖 House lawmakers want Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify about Chinese state actors using his AI company's tools in a wide-reaching cyber-espionage campaign, Axios' Sam Sabin exclusively reports. Go deeper.

👷 President Trump is sparring with his White House ballroom architect over the 90,000-square-foot addition's size, The Washington Post reports based on anonymous sources. Trump wants to go big. The architect has counseled restraint to avoid overwhelming the historic mansion. "As with any building, there is a conversation between the principal and the architect," one White House official told the Post. "All parties are excited to execute on the president's vision on what will be the greatest addition to the White House since the Oval Office." Gift link.

🏒 Pro women's Olympic moment Fans cheer on players at the PWHL's first-ever game between the Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes. Photo: Rich Lam/Getty Images Two new pro women's hockey teams — the Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes — are debuting with star power, sellout crowds and lots of pre-Olympic buzz, Axios Local's Christine Clarridge and Kyle Stokes report. 📺 A strong women's hockey showing at February's Winter Olympics could drive interest in the upstart Professional Women's Hockey League. 🇺🇸 PWHL stars make up most of the U.S. women's hockey roster, and all of the Canadian team. 🥇 That sets the stage for an Olympic showdown putting a global spotlight on the league's top talent. "If you look at the history of women's sports post-Olympics ... there's always a wonderful tailwind that you get to ride for a bit," PWHL executive vice president Amy Scheer recently told reporters. 🥅 "We're setting ourselves up to make sure we take advantage of that tailwind." Go deeper ..