Thomas Watson, English Puritan, teaches on good works. Some flip out with “jealousy” when works are stressed, acting as if this were mere Catholic doctrine. But should we teach Jesus’ words, or fear men?

I’ve got those bruises, talking in conservative Lutheran circles.

How can you speak the truth as it is in Jesus?

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American Xenophobia is Not New, 1960–2000 Was an Aberration

A HN reader asks “What happened to the US in the past fourty years?”... The trend unfortunately dates back through history. The 1960s through 1990s were a high period of openness to foreigners and globalisation, across the political spectrum, though not universally embraced. ... But the xenophobic pattern is clear in the history of American Immigration law. Forced Mexican Repatriation (1932), The National Origins Formula (1924), California Alien Land Law of 1913, Anarchist Exclusion Act (1901), Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). The Page Act (1875) barring “immigrants considered ‘undesirable,’'....

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