Should American taxpayers be forced to fund elective abortions?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I break down the growing political battle surrounding the Hyde Amendment — a 50-year-old policy that has long prevented federal dollars from paying for elective abortion.

For decades, this principle has been a bedrock of Republican pro-life policy. But now, as Congress negotiates the extension of Obamacare subsidies, some GOP leaders are signaling "flexibility" on Hyde in order to secure bipartisan support.

I explain why that shift would be far more than political compromise — it could represent the collapse of one of the most important pro-life protections in U.S. history, with massive moral, legal and electoral consequences.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• What happens when political convenience begins to outweigh moral conviction?
  
  
  
• Is compromise still compromise when it costs millions of lives?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ What the Hyde Amendment is — and why it has mattered for 50 years

✅ How it has protected an estimated 2.6 million lives since 1976

✅ Why Hyde must be reauthorized and is constantly under threat

✅ How Obamacare was designed to sidestep Hyde through accounting loopholes

✅ The current Senate showdown and the 60-vote reality

✅ Why Democrats refuse to include Hyde protections in healthcare negotiations

✅ The political danger for Republicans if they abandon the pro-life base

✅ Polling data showing most Americans oppose taxpayer-funded abortion

✅ Why federal money is "fungible" — even pro-life states still subsidize abortion

✅ The broader call for supporting women beyond abortion prevention

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧾 Know what your tax dollars are funding

🗳 Hold elected officials accountable to moral clarity

🙏 Pray for courage among lawmakers under pressure

🏛 Speak up before decades of precedent collapse

🤝 Support ministries and centers that care for mothers and families

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What does effective missionary work actually look like in the modern world?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with John Darnell, CEO of Global Outreach International (GOI), and talk about what real long-term missions require—and why so much of what we call "missions" today often lacks depth, strategy or lasting impact.

GOI supports hundreds of career missionaries across dozens of nations, and their model is built on something surprisingly uncommon: preparation, accountability, cultural immersion and gospel clarity.

We discuss why short-term trips only matter when they serve long-term disciple-making…why language and presence come before proclamation… and how missionaries can avoid becoming nothing more than humanitarian NGOs without the message of Christ.

This conversation is a much-needed reset on what global missions were always meant to be.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Do I view missions as a lifestyle of discipleship—or as an occasional spiritual experience?
  
  
  
• Am I willing to count the cost of long-term obedience, not just short-term inspiration?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ The GOI model: 368 missionaries across 70 countries

✅ Why long-term cultural immersion matters more than short-term emotion

✅ The real purpose of short-term mission trips

✅ "Presence and proclamation" — showing and sharing the gospel together

✅ How missionaries avoid drifting into pure humanitarianism

✅ Business-as-mission and creative platforms in closed nations

✅ Why language and cultural understanding come before effective evangelism

✅ Spiritual realities on the mission field that the West often ignores

✅ The role of the local church as the biblical sender and authority

✅ How Christians can break out of comfort-zone Christianity at home

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🌍 Support long-term missionaries, not just short-term experiences

📖 Pray for gospel endurance in hard places

🏛 Encourage your church to pursue accountable, strategic missions

🔥 Ask yourself where God may be calling you beyond comfort

🤝 Show God's love—but never separate it from sharing His truth

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DEI isn't going away—but it is evolving.

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I explain how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is no longer functioning mainly as a public corporate slogan or HR mandate. Instead, it's becoming something far more subtle: a professionalized operating logic embedded into law, institutions and workplace risk management.

The shift is clear. Bias is no longer treated as something proven through actions, but as something ambient and assumed. Harm is no longer tied to illegality, but to perception. And intent is no longer a defense.

This new framework quietly relocates authority away from due process and objective truth and toward subjective experience, inferred motive and perceived offense.

What happens when following the law becomes necessary but no longer sufficient?

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Have I noticed areas where perception has replaced proof in my workplace or culture?
  
  
  
• Am I willing to stand for truth even when the rules become unclear and shifting?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I unpack:

✅ The evolution of DEI from explicit mandates to subtle institutional logic

✅ Why "ambient bias" is replacing provable wrongdoing

✅ How harm is being decoupled from illegality

✅ Why intent is being sidelined in favor of impact

✅ The seven-step framework redefining professional risk

✅ How due process erodes when perception becomes the trigger

✅ The chilling effect this creates on speech and conscience

✅ Why vague standards expand power through ambiguity

✅ The rise of "process as punishment" in modern institutions

✅ A Christian framework for justice rooted in objective truth

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Recognize that cultural frameworks often shift before laws do

📖 Anchor your conscience in truth, not fear

⚖ Defend due process, fairness, and equal standards

🗣 Stand firm with clarity without becoming belligerent

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