Evangelicalism in the Trump Era

I grew up in the Evangelical Christian world. Its various tenets that were most vaulted were:

  1. Missions (spreading the Gospel to other nations)
  2. Marriage sanctity and nuclear family (one man / one woman, having children)
  3. Christian education (curriculum designed for Christian families to be apart from non-Christian public education)
  4. American patriotism (gun rights, strict Constitutional interpretation, nationalism, pledge of allegiance, etc.)
  5. Republican political activism

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Halloween streaming, 2019

[stextbox id=’info’ caption=’Authors note’]This post was written last year during October and was never released. If I’m going to be late, better to wait until Halloween 2020, right?[/stextbox]

Well, it’s that time again: time to watch an obscene number of scary movies and shows in celebration of the month of Halloween.

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Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives RevealedMaybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have 167 highlights and 11 notes in my Kindle for this book. That’s a new record for me. “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” is a beautiful book. Nearly every page is dripping with empathy, as Gottlieb tours us through her pyschotherapy practice, showing the inner lives and thoughts of her patients — and her own.
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