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In my mental hypothesis, those who grew up in Plain Anabaptist church would be expected to keep being Plain, and those who grew up in Evangelical churches and other not as disciplined backgrounds would be encouraged/expected to head in the direction of adding more disciplines to their lives, not le...

One of the themes in this thread is that it's the Ukrainians' fault that Russia invaded them them and that they should allow Russia to do whatever it wants since they are the most powerful country. In other words, might makes right -- Russia is right because they are more powerful than Ukraine and ...

MaxPC wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:25 am Thinking of moving? Your blue state may soon charge you an exit tax

I would like this, as I’d prefer wealthy vultures stop descending on red states and driving up property prices, voting in Democrats, and generally making the places they move to as bad as from where they came.

Ken wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:39 am If you are so wrong about those easily researched facts, it goes to the credibility of everything else that you write here.

Ken,

This may come as a surprise to you, but the victors in a war often downplay the atrocities they committed and frequently cover them up.

We, and the rest of the world, would all be "better off" to let Russia have all of the Ukraine, if it would save the lives of these people fighting in this stupid war. I don't think the rest of the world would be "better off" if Russia could take all of Ukraine. I don't think st...

I also don’t see it working to try to compose a church / school of people with wildly varying practices. It seems such a congregation lacks unity at a fundamental level. I don't know what you mean by wildly varying, but as I said earlier, there needs to be parameters of course. I'd rather be in a c...

Does this change in Pilgrim mean they will stop setting up in other churches “backyard” as you call it? I doubt it, since a significant portion of growth in Pilgrim churches is transfer growth from more conservative churches. This way of growing the church is a part of their model. It might make se...

It’s hard to imagine it working in principle. Could you imagine encouraging Holdemans not to share sermon recordings or listen to acapella gospel music recordings, or take photographs? In reality many people from less conservative practice view anything more strict as absurd and almost make it their...

I vaguely recall Ernie being the one who told me those details in the first place… feels like my memory may be failing me here.

PBs also don’t hold to nonresistance. At one time they did, or at least a sizable faction. Was surprised myself when I read the article on the subject. Interesting. I would suspect that was due to Quaker influences. In my own family lineage, we descend from a line of Quaker preachers, who migrated ...