People seem to imagine that what the homeless need is more stuff. Most of the homeless I deal with on a daily basis have more stuff than they know what to do with. A good amount of the garbage the church pays to have hauled away is stuff abandoned by the homeless Image
The amount of sympathy for the homeless is a mile wide and an inch deep. By the time someone starts sleeping at my church they are the most hardcore homeless around. Mental illness. Drug habits. Complete rupture of their familial networks.
By the time they become my friend there is very little chance to reverse this death spiral. I've seen a couple people do it, but most follow a predictable pattern. Next will be an institution, usually a bad nursing home. A while there and then death. Some skip the nursing home.
City and state governments are trying to address the problem with billions of dollars. There are levels of homelessness that are helped by these programs, but the people that sleep here? no.
It will either need to be an involuntary program of some kind, or the program that catches them when all of their will is exhausted and they are catching their breath before the big sleep.

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30 Dec
I don't think most listeners have much appreciation for just how radical @holland_tom answer to @gavinashenden 's question is for drowsy secular liberals in the West.
Secularism, a Christian invention, is based on a sort of "opt-out" posture regarding "faith" positions. Human rights is the law of the West, the law of the United Nations, but @holland_tom asserts it's just as much an article of faith as Christ's resurrection.
I'm going to have to continue to ponder his advice to the church, because on the menu of options in the Protestant marketplace angels, miracles, deliverance are VERY much represented. It's certainly true of the church in the developing world.
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29 Dec
In today's video I offer one of the reasons I see for the success of @jordanbpeterson 's Biblical series.
The scientistic lab leak (removing the first personal from observation in an attempt to establish a monarchical vision) over-elevated a correspondence definition of "truth".
The "true" in vernacular, vaguely scientistic speech is what can be seen to correspond to physical observation.
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28 Dec
I've been doing "thief in the night" livestreams lately. I call them that because I come unannounced into the Discord server and see what mix of randos I can find and what kind of conversation we can generate.
One guy who I spoke with a couple of years ago who used to be an angry atheist shared how he was joining the Coptic church in the UK and wanted to talk about all the interest in Orthodoxy. Hence the meme I made. Image
He also had some strong opinions about music. He felt that he had used music pornographically in the past and appreciated the restraint shown in the Eastern churches he was in the process of joining.
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9 Sep
Today's video is a massive mess teased by a click-baity title. I also happen to think that the title is true.
The length is obscene which has the beneficial effect of mostly limiting the content of the video to my core audience that usually for vocational reasons can digest VERY LONG video content.
I make these videos not so much for the promotion of ideas but to spur insight, engagement and discussion.
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3 Sep
@SteeleMannFS @holland_tom this is like a guy coming back from a California reservoir with a glass of fresh water declaring "we absolutely must NOT get our water from the clouds..." OK...
@SteeleMannFS @holland_tom He imagines his support for gay marriage was cooked up in some Christianity free clean room. I suppose his immune system is so strong because it never met a germ.
@SteeleMannFS @holland_tom In some ways their ignorance of how history works parallels creation ex nihilo. Only someone who doesn't know Voltaire would imagine he said "and let there be godlessness..." and it was evening and morning, the first day.
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10 Jun
I'm getting so old. I remember in the 1970s the "cutting edge" of "gender equality" was assertion that one's clothing, haircut, and various other lifestyle expressions and choices didn't define you.
Boys could have their hair long, girls could wear pants. Boys could talk about feelings, girls could play sports, that was OK.
There has now been a strange inversion where there's an expressive essentialism. It used to be that the dress didn't make the woman, now it does. I noticed representation in children's animated stories in my news feed.
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