Last year, the UK approved a list of 63 specific genders and distributed it to all public schools in Great Britain requiring educators to follow these guidelines. ABC, here in the US, argued there were really only 58 genders, and then finally conceded to the 63 under pressure from the five genders feeling they were […]

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Here’s the transcript from the February 13, 2020, podcast. Not every podcast will come from my blog and not every blog will become a podcast, but once in a while, there will be intersectionality. If you haven’t visited the podcast you can hear it at: https://truthmatterswithteri.podbean.com/ – I try to do a podcast a day […]

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Remember the Academy-Award winning film, “Chariots of Fire”? It’s the true story of Olympic athlete and gold medalist Eric Liddell, known as the Flying Scotsman. Liddell had the eyes of the world on him when he refused to run his best event, the 100 meters, at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. He held the […]

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WOKE /wōk/ – adjective – [informal] alert to injustice in society, especially racism; referring to a perceived superior awareness of issues concerning social justice. A perceived recognition of social, racial, economic, and gender inequality. If you’re a woke Christian in modern evangelicalism, you’re intimately familiar with the alphabet soup all the in crowd is consuming: SJW, #LOVEWINS, […]

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Before starting, I’d like to say I’ve never read a Beth Moore Bible study or any of her books. I also want to say that my purpose here isn’t to denigrate my sister in Christ, nor is it to berate her. I have one purpose and that is to speak truth in love (Eph. 4:15). […]

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Steve Martin, the comedian, used to have a routine about what would happen if parents taught their kid the wrong word for everything. He imagined what that child’s first day of school would be like. Hand raised, the child asks, “May I cow patch to the banana moon?” It’d be a cruel joke. Sometimes my […]

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Recently I was reading an article by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In it, Bonhoeffer makes a statement that shook me to the core, “For the great and powerful of this world, there are only two places in which their courage fails them…These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ. No powerful person dares approach the […]

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There is no such thing as medical marijuana. “What about all those children with epilepsy and my great aunt with glaucoma?” I am exhausted with the false narratives about the medical benefits of marijuana. The questions fundamentally miss one simple fact: there is NO SUCH THING AS medical marijuana! The confusion is not surprising, as […]

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Marijuana use increases accidents and ER visits. There is a strong link between marijuana use and dangerous driving. Berenson says, “The number of drivers in fatal accidents in Colorado and Washington state who test positive for marijuana has soared since legalization” (p. 219). With recent changes in its legal status, the impact of marijuana on […]

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Marijuana causes impaired cognitive abilities. Even among infrequent (non-daily) users, marijuana causes significant impairment to one’s ability to pay attention and to concentrate. A number of studies have shown that marijuana use significantly affects impulse control, the ability to do simple planning, decision making, and a person’s working memory—this is with nondaily, infrequent use. But […]

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