Jeanie Hannaman

July 11, 2024

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Freely Have You Received – Freely Give

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Matthew 10:7-15 - And preach as you go, saying, `The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without pay. Take no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts, no bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the laborer deserves his food. And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it, and stay with him until you depart. ...

July 11, 2024

(Biden) Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union. . . by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - Something similar has happened to a calcified America under President Joe Biden. Like the late-stage Leonid Brezhnev, Biden is now a president in name only. He has outsourced his administration to a vestigial hard-left apparat from the Obama years... Now, Biden can no longer even perform his assigned ceremonial tasks of putting a moderate veneer on radical, nihilist agendas that are stagnating the country... Yet our Pravda (Truth) journalists have sworn to the American people that, in private, the reclusive, three-day-a-week Biden outpaces the energy and drive of those half his age... our Pravda media go into overdrive to convince the public that what they see and hear is not real.

July 11, 2024

Vatican Confirms Third Study Group is Looking at Issue of ‘Female Diaconate’, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Mario Grech, a supporter of ‘ordaining’ women to the diaconate, said Pope Francis has tasked the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith of looking into the theme of ‘female deacons.’... Fielding questions after a Synod on Synodality press conference, Cardinal Mario Grech noted that Pope Francis has tasked the CDF to study the theme of “female deacons.” Responding to a question about “female deacons,” in light of the freshly released working document for the October Synod meetings, Grech stated that Francis has asked the CDF to study the theme of “female deacons” and that of ministry generally.

July 11, 2024

America’s Conflicts Are Not Primarily Political Or Ideological, But Religious, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - The conflicts roiling American society today are not primarily political or even ideological, but religious... America is supposedly a secular country, with separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, and so on. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of what amounts to a religious war. How could this be?... Because America, like all nations, is founded on religious claims, and relies on those claims for its coherence.