@danielwalbert.bsky.social

ThM DTS in historical theology and Spiritual formation // USMB Pastor // Husband + Dad to three kids, two living.

Theology 101: EITHER the ancient Nicene faith is true Christianity OR the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true Christianity (or neither is true Christianity). But IN NO CASE can they both be true expressions of the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

Not to be a curmudgeonly snob, but has anyone else noticed an increase in the social acceptance of blatant spelling errors? I see more and more well adjusted adults misspelling common words.

When a regime clearly holds the rule of law in contempt, and views itself as completely above the law, it and its agents don’t have any moral argument for the protections of the rule of law.

We have to smash the suffocating instinct to pretend that this is all normal. Nothing here is normal. You are living through the most open, shameless corruption of government in American history.

Christians cannot continue to use nationalistic warfare rhetoric and feed the hate-filled animosity that increasingly shapes the American socio-cultural, religious, and political landscape. When we think our fight is against flesh and blood, when this fight erases love, we've lost our way.💔

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

an absolutely monumental achievement! A massive congratulations to her for breaking barriers, challenging stereotypes, and proving that determination knows no bounds. Becoming the world's first practicing lawyer with Down syndrome after 5 years of hard work at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

MY DAUGHTER WITH DOWN SYNDROME JUST BECAME THE WORLD'S FIRST PRACTICING LAWYER AFTER FIVE YEARS OF LAW SCHOOL. TELL HER CONGRATULATIONS

The DOJ is reportedly considering dropping any audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses as part of a potential settlement of his bogus lawsuit against the IRS. That’s on top of the $10 billion in damages he wants. This is corruption on steroids — and taxpayers will pay the price.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

It’s not that PHONES EXPLAIN EVERYTHING. It’s that SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS EXPLAIN EVERYTHING and the phones have transformed the dynamics of social relationships, in large part by linking us into a huge and bizarre parasocial universe.

Sherlock Holmes on what might happen if humanity ever finds a way to prolong and rejuvenate our lives through some miracle drug. Reminds me of these transhumanist billionaires injecting themselves with their own kids' blood.

But it may recur. Others
may find a better way. There is danger there—a very
real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the
material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong
their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid
the call to something higher. It would be the survival
of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our
poor world become?”

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

Péter Magyar addressed the Hungarian parliament after being sworn in as PM.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Roberts $20 Million Bribery Scandal Justice Roberts failed to recuse from more than 500 cases argued at the Supreme Court by law firms that paid his household Millions. He wrote the Court’s ethics code, designing it to be unenforceable. Corrupt open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.

And you can too.

open.substack.com

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

You're in a chess tournament against last year's champion. He jumps a pawn clear across the board to take your rook. "That's not how chess works!" you say to the judge. That's when you learn the tournament's judges get appointed by the previous year's champion. (What reading the news feels like)

“The incredibly unpopular ruler, whose time is split between insane wars no one wants and building golden monuments and palaces honoring himself, has changed the rules so only his party can win elections” is a story that often ends on a scaffold

When the soul is fully satisfied with God's provision and presence, the Spirit cultivates soul-fulfillment to produce love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Imagine the capacity for love when one is fully satisfied.