"When are we preachers going to stop apologizing for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ? It’s my belief that bolder and truer messaging will draw people back to the congregations from which they have fled in droves over the last decades."
—Will Mebane ’06 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our Reflections journal, focused on: Is Christianity losing its religion?
E.M. Bounds: Weapon of Prayer:
>The Christian man must in all things, first of all, be conformed to the will of God, but nowhere shall this royal devotion be more evident than in the salvation of the race of men. This high partnership with God, as His vicegerents on earth, is to have its fullest, richest, and most efficient exercise in prayer for all men.
"You can't have an intellectual conversation with someone who thinks Donald Trump is a Christian."
OMG 🤣
▶️Out-Dumbing Ignorant Bigots, and My Sister's Coming Out Story
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cygv52I0XIM&si=TClDmnIxIvexQWuW
Claiming that capitalism is good because the "communist" Polish People's Republic was "worse" is like claiming that Christianity is good because pre-Christian Poland was "worse".
#AntiCapitalism
"Die Flamme" 🔥 Mein absolutes Lieblingslied vom Album "Merkst Du schon was?" von Nicola Rost. Hier im Remix von Jan Driver. Der Text basiert auf einem Gedicht von Christian Morgenstern
https://open.spotif…
Long weekend in Germany (some Christian bank holiday tomorrow that is co-opted as "Father's Day") and a Friday that should be slow at the office since most have taken a day off.
Ready to binge the new #Andor season!
Trump signed an executive order decrying so-called anti-Christian bias in February,
and a hotline was created in April to encourage State Department workers to call in and snitch on their colleagues who might be acting with any kind of “anti-Christian bias.”
The Religious Liberty Commission was established via another executive order on May 1 during a flashy White House event.
Trump has even established his own Christian “faith” office in the White House, seemingly further…
New book published June 2025:
FRANK ZAPPA'S AMERICA
by Bradley Morgan
An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.
Publishing by Louisiana State University Press.
https://lsupress.org/9780807183922…
Statement by YDS Dean Greg Sterling.
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We are relieved that two members of the YDS community, Rev. William Barber and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, are safe and unharmed following their arrest while praying in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday. We applaud them for their courage in standing up for Christian values and doing so in accordance with the venerable tradition of nonviolent action.
ExoPhoto: A Database of Temperature-Dependent Photodissociation Cross Sections
Qing-He Ni, Christian Hill, Sergei N. Yurchenko, Marco Pezzella, Alexander Fateev, Zhi Qin, Olivia Venot, Jonathan Tennyson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22576
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CG/new
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- The Contiguous Art Gallery Problem is Solvable in Polynomial Time
Magnus Christian Ring Merrild, Casper Moldrup Rysgaard, Jens Kristian Refsgaard Schou, Rolf Svenning
S06E01: Defending Mother Earth from The Doctrine of Christian Discovery #NoKings with Faithkeeper Oren Lyons https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-01/
Apax: A Flexible and Performant Framework For The Development of Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials
Moritz Ren\'e Sch\"afer, Nico Segreto, Fabian Zills, Christian Holm, Johannes K\"astner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22168
On the orientation of historic Christian churches of Fuerteventura: conciliating tradition, winds and topography
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui, Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio, Carmelo Cabrera, Juan Antonio Belmonte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18161
Space magnetometry with a differential atom interferometer
Matthias Meister, Gabriel M\"uller, Patrick Boegel, Albert Roura, Annie Pichery, David B. Reinhardt, Timoth\'e Estrampes, Jannik Str\"ohle, Enno Giese, Holger Ahlers, Waldemar Herr, Christian Schubert, \'Eric Charron, Holger M\"uller, Jason R. Williams, Ernst M. Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Naceur Gaaloul, Nicholas P. Bigelow
📢 FDP hat neuen Vorsitzenden: Christian Dürr zum Parteichef gewählt
Der FDP-Parteitag in Berlin hat den früheren Fraktionsvorsitzenden Dürr zum neuen Vorsitzenden gewählt. Er erhielt 82 Prozent der Delegiertenstimmen. Dürr tritt die Nachfolge von Christian Lindner an, der die FDP 11 Jahre lang führte.
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Sean Duffy turns military graduation into blatant ad for Christian Nationalism
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/sean-duffy-turns-military-graduation
Wie retten wir unsere Städte?
Das fragt Christian Sievers und fragt in Städten, die sich ihere Schönheit lebenswert erhalten haben, ist unter anderem in Freiburg und im spanischen Santander. Und er ist in Ludwigshafen, der schönsten Stad aus Beton für alle, die Autobahnen und Bundesstraßen lieben.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
Sean G. Sellers, Juie Shetye, Damian J. Christian, David B. Jess, Peter H. Keys, Gordon A. MacDonald, R. T. James McAteer, Jason Jackiewicz, Colin Hancock, Michael S. Thompson, Jamey E. Eriksen, Sara Jeffreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.…
On Friday, Right Wing Watch reported that President Donald Trump's religious-right activists have been nearly unanimous in their demand that the Trump administration lend its full support to Israel in its growing conflict with Iran because they believe that it is key to bringing about the End Times and the return of Jesus Christ.
On Saturday, after Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, MAGA cultist and self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau immed…
Well, there you have it...
The same year, Vance told the National Conservatism Conference that “we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” “We live in a world that has been made effectively by university knowledge” and to rebuild the nation along the lines of white Christian nationalism, the universities must be destroyed. Vance told the audience, “the professors are the enemy.”
Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Michael Johnston, Burkhard Ringlein, Christoph Hagleitner, Alessandro Pomponio, Vassilis Vassiliadis, Christian Pinto, Srikumar Venugopal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21467
Replaced article(s) found for math.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.LO/new
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- Equational theory of ordinals with addition and left multiplication by $\omega$
Christian Choffrut
Architectural mechanisms of a universal fault-tolerant quantum computer
Dolev Bluvstein, Alexandra A. Geim, Sophie H. Li, Simon J. Evered, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Gefen Baranes, Andi Gu, Tom Manovitz, Muqing Xu, Marcin Kalinowski, Shayan Majidy, Christian Kokail, Nishad Maskara, Elias C. Trapp, Luke M. Stewart, Simon Hollerith, Hengyun Zhou, Michael J. Gullans, Susanne F. Yelin, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, Madelyn Cain, Mikhail D. Lukin
In some Western countries, the Christian holiday of the Resurrection of Jesus is called "Easter". By elementary logic, we can conclude that, in some Eastern countries, that holiday is called "Wester".
Bei uns könnt ihr heute den Mond und den Mars gleichzeitig berühren! Christian Renggli hat uns heute nachmittag schonmal gezeigt wie's geht.
@…
#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps
Obzwar die allermeiste Werbung nicht schafft, mir einen Kaufanreiz zu injizieren, so doch mich zu nerven oder gar anzutriggern. Grad eben wieder „…reinigt neunmal effektiver!“ und in meinem Kopf geht sofort an: als was? Neunmal effektiver als Christian Lindner? Das ist ein Komparativ, verdammt noch mal! Der ist dazu da was zu vergleichen. Du kannst nicht einfach sagen „Drei ist kleiner!“ Also kannst du schon, aber das ist halt semantisch Blödsinn – insofern, paßt zu Werbung: da ist ständig i…
Die aktuelle Forschung zum Reichshofrat, im Speziellen zur grauen Eminenz Georg Christian Knorr (1691-1752) zitiert den 18. Brumaire von Marx.
An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Yannis Bertrand, Christian Imenkamp, Lukas Malburg, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Marco Franceschetti, Joscha Gr\"uger, Francesco Leotta, J\"urgen Mangler, Ronny Seiger, Agnes Koschmider, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Barbara Weber, Estefania Serral
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…
Christian Klein, SAP-Chef, warnt: Mit US-Hyperscalern wie AWS, Azure und Google Cloud zu konkurrieren, indem Europa zig Rechenzentren baut, ist „völlig verrückt“. Die Lösung? Nicht Infrastruktur, sondern intelligente KI-Anwendungen machen Europa stark! Die Zukunft liegt in smarter KI, nicht in digitalen Kraftmeiereien gegen US-Riesen. #Golem
Probing multi-band variability and mode switching in the candidate transitional millisecond pulsar 3FGL J1544.6-1125
Giulia Illiano, Francesco Coti Zelati, Arianna Miraval Zanon, Alessandro Papitto, Maria Cristina Baglio, Domitilla de Martino, Stefano Giarratana, Filippo Ambrosino, Francesco Carotenuto, Sergio Campana, Alessio Marino, Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres, Marcello Giroletti, Thomas D. Russell, Christian Malacaria, Caterina Ballocco, Enrico Bozzo, Carlo Ferrigno, Riccardo La Plac…
Much of what is going on under the present FFOTUS/maga-klan/white-christian-nationalist reign reminds me of a time in Florence, Italy in the late 1400s.
A nut named Girolamo Savonarola tried to impose a very regressive Christian policy onto Florence.
The people of Florence didn't like it and, in the end, gave Savonarola a rather hot time.
Klar wird im Nationalrat auch Politik gemacht. Manchmal fühlt es sich aber eher nach Polemik an.
So hat #SVP-Nationalrat Christian Imark gerade eine Interpellation mit «Digitale Souveränität der Schweiz ist Realität!» betitelt, selbstverständlich inklusive Ausrufezeichen.
Viel Substanz findet man allerdings nicht, wie genau die
Bundeswehr sieht keine Schwächung Russlands
Der Leiter des Ukraine-Stabes im Bundesverteidigungsministerium, Generalmajor Christian Freuding, erwartet keine unmittelbaren Auswirkungen des Israel-Iran-Kriegs auf die militärische Lage in der Ukraine.
Russland sei in den ersten Kriegsjahren zwar "sehr stark durch den Iran bei Drohnen unterstützt worden", sagte Freuding zu ZDF heute live. Diese Drohnen vom Typ "Schahed" stelle R…
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Measurements, simulations, and models of the point-spread function of electron-beam lithography
Nikolaj B. Hougs, Kristian S. Knudsen, Marcus Albrechtsen, Taichi Suhara, Christian A. Rosiek, S{\o}ren Stobbe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21236
Es ging doch nur darum, das Rezept für den übelst lekkeren Hefezopf, der immer bei den F-Runden serviert wird, vor den Grühünen geheim zu halten! 🥹
#FDP #Lindner
Quelle:
Here’s what Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia, a Republican and founder of Latinas for Trump, had to say about ICE’s raids:
This is not what we voted for…
I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens,
but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings
— in many cases, with credible fear of persecution claims,
all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation…
Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Mirza Arnaut, Christian W\"ohler, Pritish Halder, Goldy Ahuja, Shashikiran Ganesh, Megha Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21284
Robust and efficient pre-processing techniques for particle-based methods including dynamic boundary generation
Niklas S. Neher, Erik Faulhaber, Sven Berger, Christian Wei{\ss}enfels, Gregor J. Gassner, Michael Schlottke-Lakemper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21206
High-Efficiency Tunable Microwave Photon Detector Based on a Semiconductor Double Quantum Dot Coupled to a Superconducting High-Impedance Cavity
Fabian Oppliger, Wonjin Jang, Aldo Tarascio, Franco De Palma, Christian Reichl, Werner Wegscheider, Ville F. Maisi, Dominik Zumb\"uhl, Pasquale Scarlino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative.
He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.”
He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”;
abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark a civil war.
He told me last year that he regards the American state as the “biggest blasphemer” of them all.
But beneath the provocations is a vision of a remade
— and Chri…
"Many Christians can’t identify with the word Christian anymore. No wonder the New Testament mentions 'Christian' just three times, as if reluctant to endorse a term that would become so easily exploited or distorted."
—Reflections editor Ray Waddle on the question "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CG/new
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- The Contiguous Art Gallery Problem is Solvable in Polynomial Time
Magnus Christian Ring Merrild, Casper Moldrup Rysgaard, Jens Kristian Refsgaard Schou, Rolf Svenning