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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Artificial intelligence isn't just another tool—it's the biggest technological revolution since the printing press. And it's happening faster than most all of us realize.

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I sit down with an AI specialist, Joshua Hale, to unpack the real risks and opportunities of the AI revolution. This conversation isn't about sci-fi hype—it's about personal sovereignty, truth, psychological dependency and whether humans will master these tools or quietly surrender authority to them.

We talk honestly about the dangers of "false empathy," why AI is becoming a digital "yes-man," how centralized systems are creating invisible cages and why a small group of people who understand digital hygiene may soon live in a completely different reality than everyone else.

This episode is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks AI is neutral—or harmless.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Am I using technology as a tool—or am I slowly letting it shape my thinking and identity?
  
  
  
• If AI disappeared tomorrow, would my sense of truth, wisdom and community still be intact?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, we unpack:

✅ Why AI is more psychologically dangerous than social media

✅ The "false empathy" trap humans aren't wired to detect

✅ How AI becomes a digital yes-man—and why that matters

✅ The emerging split between "freedom builders" and passive users

✅ Why centralized AI systems threaten personal sovereignty

✅ The rise of AI cults and synthetic spiritual authority

✅ How hallucinations and bias undermine truth and morality

✅ Practical ways to use AI without becoming dependent on it

✅ Why local, closed-system AI is the future of freedom

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Learn digital hygiene before habits are formed for you

🛡 Protect your thinking, privacy, and moral framework

🤝 Strengthen real-world relationships and community

📖 Anchor truth in something deeper than algorithms

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What happens when political activism crosses into the sanctuary?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I examine the disruptive protest at a Minneapolis church where activists stormed a worship service to target an associate pastor connected to ICE. What followed wasn't just a political controversy—it raised serious legal, constitutional, and theological questions that Christians can no longer ignore.

I walk through where free speech actually ends, why churches are not public forums, and how disrupting worship crosses a line both legally and biblically. More importantly, I explore how Christians should respond when hostility toward the faith moves from disagreement into intimidation and disruption.

This episode isn't about fear-mongering. It's about discernment. Scripture is clear that persecution doesn't always begin with prisons—it often starts with public shaming, false accusations, and interference with worship.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

· Am I prepared to respond to hostility with conviction and gentleness?

· Do I recognize the difference between bold faith and belligerent behavior—even when I agree with the cause?

📌 In this episode, I unpack:

✅ Why churches are private property—not public protest zones

✅ Where the First Amendment actually draws the line on free speech

✅ How Scripture defines persecution—and why this incident fits the pattern

✅ The difference between Christian boldness and political belligerence

✅ Why "Jesus flipping tables" is often misused to justify chaos

✅ How believers are called to respond without surrendering truth

✅ Practical steps churches should take to protect worship without escalating conflict

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🙏 Pray for churches facing increasing public hostility

📖 Strengthen your theological understanding of persecution and faithfulness

🛡 Encourage your church leaders to prepare wisely—not fearfully

🗣 Speak truth with courage, clarity, and restraint

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Is civil disobedience a Christian duty or a dangerous misreading of faith?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I continue my discussion with activist and author Shane Claiborne in a thoughtful and at-times tense conversation about Christian civil disobedience, theology and public policy.

Both of us agree on a foundational truth: a Christian's ultimate allegiance is to Jesus Christ—not the state. But from there, the conversation reveals deep and meaningful disagreements about how that allegiance should be lived out in real-world policy decisions involving guns, immigration, welfare, justice and government authority.

Claiborne argues that love for "the least of these" must be the guiding metric for Christian action, even when it leads to nonviolent resistance against unjust laws. I counter that love must be grounded in obedience to God's commands and propose a clear biblical framework for when civil disobedience is truly required.

This episode does not offer easy answers—but it models civil discourse, biblical reasoning and the hard work of thinking clearly in a polarized age.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Do I define love primarily by compassion or by obedience to God's truth?
  
  
  
• Where might sincerity be replacing biblical discernment in my convictions?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, we explore:

✅ When civil disobedience becomes a Christian obligation

✅ Competing biblical frameworks for love, justice and obedience

✅ Matthew 25 vs. Romans 13—how should Christians interpret both?

✅ The dangers of Christian nationalism and state idolatry

✅ Whether compassion alone is a sufficient guide for public policy

✅ Guns, immigration, welfare and the role of government vs. the church

✅ Loving political opponents without excusing error or injustice

✅ Why fear and comfort often silence faithful obedience

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🙏 Ask whether your convictions are shaped more by Scripture or culture

🧠 Examine political beliefs through a biblical—not partisan—lens

🗣 Speak truth with humility, clarity and courage

❤️ Refuse to replace Christ with any cause, party or ideology

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What happens when following Jesus puts you in direct conflict with the laws of the state?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with activist and author Shane Claiborne to explore one of the most uncomfortable—and misunderstood—questions facing Christians today: When does obedience to God require disobedience to government?

From feeding the homeless in defiance of city ordinances, to protesting war and unjust policies, to confronting Christian nationalism head-on, this conversation challenges easy political categories and forces believers to wrestle with allegiance, authority, and love in public life.

Claiborne reframes "civil disobedience" as divine obedience, arguing that faithfulness to Jesus sometimes demands nonviolent resistance to unjust laws—and that the church's role is not to serve the state or rule it, but to act as its conscience.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Where does my primary allegiance actually lie—Christ or comfort?
  
  
  
• Have I confused unity with peace, or silence with faithfulness?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, we discuss:

✅ What "divine obedience" really means for Christians

✅ Biblical examples of faithful resistance (Daniel, the prophets, the early church)

✅ Why love—not rebellion—is the motive behind Christian civil disobedience

✅ The difference between the church as the conscience of the state vs. its servant

✅ Why Shane Claiborne rejects Christian nationalism

✅ How nonviolent action exposes injustice without abandoning conviction

✅ Whether justice can become an idol—and how to guard against it

✅ Why caring for the vulnerable is not a political issue but a gospel mandate

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🙏 Examine where fear or comfort may be silencing obedience

🧠 Test your political assumptions against Scripture—not party loyalty

🗣 Engage injustice with courage, humility, and love

❤️ Remember: justice is what love looks like in public

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What happens when the United States conducts a high-risk special operations mission to capture a sitting head of state?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with a military legal expert to break down the reported U.S. operation targeting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—examining the legal justifications, military strategy and global implications behind one of the most extraordinary actions in modern Western Hemisphere politics.

This is not just a story about drugs or Venezuela. It's about sovereignty, self-defense, foreign adversaries operating in America's backyard, and a dramatic shift in U.S. posture toward cartel states and hostile regimes.

From UN Charter law and historical precedents like Noriega and Eichmann, to oil money funding terror groups, to what this signals for Mexico, Colombia, Iran, Russia and China—this episode connects the dots the headlines won't.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

· When does law enforcement become national self-defense?

· What happens when sovereignty is used as cover for global harm?

📌 In this episode, we unpack:

✅ Why the operation is framed as a capture mission, not a kill mission

✅ The 2020 U.S. narco-terrorism indictment against Maduro

✅ How Article 51 of the UN Charter is being used to justify action

✅ The connection between Venezuelan oil money, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas

✅ Why this signals a revived Monroe Doctrine / "Trump Doctrine"

✅ What this means for Mexico, Colombia and cartel-controlled states

✅ Lessons learned from Iraq, Panama and past regime removals

✅ Why targeting kingpins rarely stops drugs—but still matters geopolitically

✅ The risks of power vacuums, insurgency and regional instability

📢 TAKE ACTION:

📖 Learn how international law actually works—not how it's portrayed

🧠 Think critically about sovereignty, security and moral responsibility

🙏 Pray for peace, restraint and wisdom among global leaders

🗣 Talk about hard truths without partisan blinders

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