December 9, 2025:
Bailing Out a Sinking Ship With a Teacup
Zorek
Trump is bailing out farmers with $12 billion...the same farmers his tariffs devastated financially. Fortune Magazine reports: Trump’s $12 billion farmer bailout is a ‘Band-Aid on a bigger wound’ the American agriculture industry is still reeling from. But, of course, Trump but hasn’t freed the agriculture industry from worries of tight margins and volatile markets. He refuses to publicly acknowledge his tariffs have been very destructive to the economy. As the tariffs still are in place how many bailouts is he going to have to make? AS Fortune reported: Tariffs on farming-related machinery as well as products like seeds and fertilizer sit at 9%, costing U.S. farmers about $33 billion more, according to North Dakota State University’s Agricultural Trade Monitor. That includes a more than 15% tax on tractors and herbicides. He hasn't blamed Biden yet, but tomorrows another day. Comments can be made HERE
Just Something to Think About
Zorek
Dr. Holly Berkley Fletcher, the author of “The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism," recently said of her research that one thing she picked up from her interviews with others who’d grown up in evangelical missionary settings is “a myth that white evangelicals tell themselves,” she said. “It’s this idea that American Christians are key to the world’s salvation,” that “they see themselves as the default Christianity.
There are ideas about indispensability, about how good they are as people.”Just something to think about. I do see this "default" concept of Christianity as a very foundational part of Maga-Christianity. God is on their side and everyone else is wrong. Comments can be made HERE
There are ideas about indispensability, about how good they are as people.”Just something to think about. I do see this "default" concept of Christianity as a very foundational part of Maga-Christianity. God is on their side and everyone else is wrong. Comments can be made HERE
November 8, 2025:
The Undefined American Religion: Christianity
Zorek
"Christianity" in America is a vaguely undefined word. Not by design but by what it has become. The flavors of religions that use the word Christian are many and varying in beliefs and persuasions. Then there's the Bible teachings which are reinterpreted over and over usually based on the defining or redefining one word. In that perspective "many are called; few are chosen" makes sense. How many is a few? we don't know. How many is "many", again we don't know for sure. I embrace Christianity because I am "known" by God. (In that day he will say to many go from me I never knew you") (side note: I can trace that in my life all the way back to when I was 8 years old; and will expand on that sometime)
To many people who claim Christianity that will still not make sense to them. But I say emphatically that God makes the choice and I believe He does that not out of random desires of His own, but by being able to see within the heart of all men. He then chooses, sees us as we are, then He spends what time we have on earth creating us into what He has imagine for us, and may work in us to bring other people with us when that time comes. Man cannot save himself. It might very well be at that moment in a dark part of our life making that realization we begin to sense the power of God and we grow from there.
Too many "Christians" believe salvation and Gods favor can be accomplished through rigorous religious activities and even political movements. God is not interested in anyone's politics, big church, money, or any of that kind of status, as those are temporal things which fade as quickly as we pass through time in this world. Love one another. Don't let something inane distract you. God didn't save you to stop abortion or give you favor because you say you "love Israel," or dozens more things many American evangelicals believe are cornerstones that make them Christians.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind and then love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments hang ALL the Law and the Prophets. Again, it doesn't say politics as God in His sovereignty over nation will take care of that. The only thing that holds Him back are the people trying to do it all themselves for themselves or their country. God doesn't need your help or mine. And the days of yours or any country is numbered.
To many people who claim Christianity that will still not make sense to them. But I say emphatically that God makes the choice and I believe He does that not out of random desires of His own, but by being able to see within the heart of all men. He then chooses, sees us as we are, then He spends what time we have on earth creating us into what He has imagine for us, and may work in us to bring other people with us when that time comes. Man cannot save himself. It might very well be at that moment in a dark part of our life making that realization we begin to sense the power of God and we grow from there.
Too many "Christians" believe salvation and Gods favor can be accomplished through rigorous religious activities and even political movements. God is not interested in anyone's politics, big church, money, or any of that kind of status, as those are temporal things which fade as quickly as we pass through time in this world. Love one another. Don't let something inane distract you. God didn't save you to stop abortion or give you favor because you say you "love Israel," or dozens more things many American evangelicals believe are cornerstones that make them Christians.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind and then love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments hang ALL the Law and the Prophets. Again, it doesn't say politics as God in His sovereignty over nation will take care of that. The only thing that holds Him back are the people trying to do it all themselves for themselves or their country. God doesn't need your help or mine. And the days of yours or any country is numbered.
Zorek Richards
Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid City Right to Life