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I'm getting grey and I am developing a bald spot (my barber tells me it is just "thinning"). Not thinking of going the razor skin head look, but the clippers on either a #2 guard or no guard at all. I'm on the upper end of my mid-40's so I think I'm old enough to make such a decision. I'm...

I know how this part smells.

Models are just models. North Korea, China and the Soviet Union are/were democratic republics, at least on paper. What counts is the internal relationships. All models can be subverted into unhealthy tyrannies. Correct. What we are looking at in this thread is functional governance. From that persp...

surely must have something to do with raw milk somehow

I don't know which model would describe conservative Mennonites. In some ways, since the leaders are chosen from among the church membership, they are representative, but not really, because once ordained, there is no further formal mechanism for the membership to inform the leadership. Because lea...

I know women don't serve in leadership positions in most/all? CM churches. But do women typically participate in congregational decision-making that involves voting? I honestly don't know the answer so I'm asking. The correct word for an organization run by men is "patriarchy" which might...

Yesterday Biden delivered remarks at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the US Capitol. One of his lies comments was “When my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq, came home with stage four glioblastoma and was gonna die”. All except Beau Biden came home from Iraq in September 2009. And...

I know of churches that basically operate as: Direct Democracies Representative Democracies Democratic Republics Totalitarian Democracies Monarchies Autocracies Oligarchies Puppet states In each of the above, it is assumed that Jesus is the head of the church and that the Holy Spirit is working thr...

What is the most concerning is how they claimed the stuff with Hunter and Ashley's diary wasn't true, when it actually was. It points to a complete lack of integrity. If they can't tell the truth about something like that, how can they be trusted on anything else? Exactly. Just like the bigger prob...

How do citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven go about getting the kingdoms of the world to stop developing and using nuclear and other bombs against other kingdoms of the world? You can become an advocate like Shane Claiborne and lobby against things like nuclear weapons and the death penalty, while re...