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I’ve often been impressed by the ability of old African-American spirituals to treat serious subjects in a clear, memorable, and almost joyful way. This is true even of weighty matters like sin and judgment. During early November we are focused on the four last things (death, judgment, Heaven, and hell) and November is also Black Catholic History Month. So, this seems like a good time to look at some of the creative lines from different spirituals that articulate these topics.It can be very helpful to the preacher, teacher, and parent in recovering an ethos of coming judgment, but in a...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp certified the state's presidential election results Friday in favor of President-elect Joe Biden -- but called for another audit of the votes. Kemp told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution it was “completely unacceptable” that stashes of thousands of uncounted ballots were found in several counties during the manual hand recount after the initial results. After the hand recount, President Trump gained 888 votes, shrinking Biden’s lead slightly to 12,670 votes.

November 21 2020 Memorial of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary Thirty Third Saturday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 502Reading Rv 11:4-12I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me: Here are my two witnesses: These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone wanting to harm them is sure to be slain. They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of...

What an utterly shameful situation we are in. Biden is a corrupt cockroach, a truly compromised, no moral center opportunist, probably worse than the Clintons. https://twitter.com/brad89739161/status/1329969599870361603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1329969599870361603%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage4598582%2Fpg1

'We're going to have to file several lawsuits' CHRIS PANDOLFO Attorney Sidney Powell announced Friday that the Donald Trump campaign legal team will possibly begin making public evidence from affidavits supporting their claims of a "national conspiracy" of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election as soon as this weekend. POLL: Who is the most corrupt? Speaking to BlazeTV host Glenn Beck on the radio, Powell told Beck documents backing up allegations she made against voting system companies Smartmatic and Dominion in a press conference Thursday will be published online soon. "We will start putting documents online and sending them...

There were also as many hate crimes against Christians as against Muslims. Every time the FBI gets around to releasing the hate crime data for the previous year, the numbers reveal a wide gap between the media narrative and the reality on the ground. And the 2019 data is no different. After sifting through thousands of hate crimes from across the country committed by thousands of criminals, the final breakdown is that of 6,406 known offenders, only 52% of the perpetrators were white, and around 24% were black. The FBI measures Latinos as an ethnicity, not a race, so that...

It’s official: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the 2020 presidential election... **SNIP** “In short, I am so glad. The person we just voted out of the White House legitimized many racist, homophobic, and other ignorant beliefs of a dangerous crowd. It showed them that what they believe is valid. He also constantly attacked the media, including publications that I have looked up to for accurate information and which have served as inspiration for me as an early-career journalist. As Americans, I believe we are safer now that Trump is out of office.” -Lydia, 22, Virginia **SNIP** “It’s long...

China is using a new study about the early, hidden spread of coronavirus in Italy to cast doubt on the firmly held assumption that the Asian nation was the birthplace of the pandemic, according to reports. Officials in Beijing are pushing a new study that suggests the contagion may have been spreading in the European nation as early as September — three months before it was confirmed to be spreading in the long-assumed epicenter in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Times of London noted. The Asian nation has also previously questioned Spain about the origins of the pandemic, as...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, both Georgia Republicans, teamed up on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Friday, calling for Omar to be “expelled from Congress” and accusing her of marrying her brother. “Ilhan, We saw the video of you smiling and laughing while talking about al-Qaeda & 9/11,” Loeffler told Omar after the Minnesota Democrat referred to one of the senator's tweets as “blatant lies” and brought up accusations of “insider trading” leveled against Loeffler that were ultimately dismissed. "We know that you funneled MILLIONS of dollars to your new husband’s ‘consulting’ firm. And we know that...

This will be a weekly post. Count is now 227 judges confirmed. 3 Trade Court judges 168 District Court judges 53 Circuit Court judges 3 Supreme Court justices On Wednesday the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on several judges, including Thomas Kirsch to fill Amy Coney Barrett's vacant 7th Circuit seat. Democrats are VERY upset that the Senate keeps confirming judges, even in a lame duck session. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey's reaction to the President nominating Puerto Rican conservative Raul Arias to the 1st Circuit vacancy was delicious. If confirmed, Kirsch and Arias will be President Trump's 54th and...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has won this year's International Emmy® Founders Award for his "dramatic and convincing portrayal of a man who cares about people" during the 111 daily briefings he gave on the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. International Academy President & CEO, Bruce L. Paisner said "Gov. Cuomo effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure. The way he wheedled more than his state's fair share of medical equipment out of a befuddled President Trump was masterful. The quantities of ventilators and hospital beds he persuaded Trump to hand over resulted in...

Simple question...Just where is Attorney General Bill Barr and the entire FBI....Does anyone in the the USA, or, the world know where Bill Barr & the entire FBI are? Shameful response & performance over voter fraud, by our federal law enforcement!!! Democrat, Corrupt, Joe Biden & Criminal, son, Hunter should be in jail...period. I guess the Russians & Chinese have ordered the FBI to lay low and keep hands off the Biden crooks!!! Go figure!!! What language should I learn to converse in, Russian, Chinese, Farsi, or, just simply all of them!!!

Britain will become Europe's greatest naval power again after a £16.5billion boost to defence spending, Boris Johnson vowed yesterday. The Prime Minister said he would 'restore Britain's position' as the ruler of the waves rather than allow the UK to 'curl up in our island and leave the task to our friends'. Billions of pounds of the extra defence cash would go towards the next generation of warships, including advanced new Type 32 frigates which will be armed with lasers.

We’ve uncovered a second secret agreement between corrupt Georgia election officials and the Democratic Party machine. This agreement is also illegitimate and its purpose too was to steal the election. We previously reported about the corrupt actions which Georgia’s Chief Elections Official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger took to help steal the 2020 Georgia election for the Democrats. That involved a secret March 6, 2020 “Consent Agreement” to alter absentee ballot procedures, between Republican Raffensperger and his State Election Board as defendants against the Democratic Party. But then we found another election law complaint, this one filed by Stacey Abrams’...

Federal Elections Commission Chairman Trey Trainor says new analysis by professor Steven Miller "adds to the conclusions that some level of voter fraud took place in this year's election." VIDEO In a sworn declaration, a respected mathematician says his analysis of election data and phone interviews with Pennsylvania voters raises questions about as many as 100,000 absentee ballots requested in the key battleground state where President Trump and Joe Biden are separated by just about 82,000 votes. Williams College Professor Steven Miller, a Yale and Princeton trained math expert, said he analyzed Pennsylvania ballot data collected by former Trump campaign...

One week before the 2020 election PBS went to Georgia to do a deep dive of their Dominion Voting Systems. One of their experts, Harry Hursti from Nordic Innovation Labs, told PBS the Georgia system does not seem to have any safeguards. Georgia’s vote tabulating system was a complex system of laptops, ipads, magnetic cards, touch screens, printers and scanners. Investigators found several troubling issues before the election. One expert said it would be easy to duplicate the ballot codes and make up new ballots. It’s pretty clear this was a stolen state from President Trump. What an outrage. TWEET:...

President Donald Trump accused pharmaceutical companies Friday of purposely delaying a coronavirus vaccine until after the election, in order to prevent his reelection. “Pfizer and others even decided to not assess the results of their vaccine, in other words, not come out with a vaccine, until just after the election,” Trump said. The president accused the companies of purposely delaying the vaccine results, noting that they had planned to assess the data as early as October, but postponed it.

President-elect Joe Biden is considering Federal Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland for the Attorney General position under his administration, according to a new report. Sources told NPR that Garland, 68, is among the names that Biden is considering for the position, which is currently held by William Barr. Garland was the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit until his seven-year term ended in February 2020 and continues to be a circuit judge, a position he has held since 1997.

President Trump is reportedly considering signing an executive order ending birthright citizenship before he leaves the Oval Office. On Friday, various sources told The Hill that members of the Trump Administration have been discussing the issue with increasing frequency. They are hoping to push the President into taking action before Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20. Under current law, all babies born in United States are automatically granted citizenship, regardless of whether or not their parents are American. An executive order signed by President Trump would likely put an end to such legal protections.

President-elect Joe Biden got testy with a CBS News reporter who asked him a question on Friday about his plan to get children back into classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tense exchange took place just as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were wrapping up a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Wilmington, Delaware. ‘In my Oval Office, mi casa, you casa,’ Biden, who turned 78 years old on Friday, is heard telling the senior Democratic Party leaders.