Religion

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced on Friday that authorities had arrested 32 men in a Knoxville human trafficking operation. Among those arrested was Jason Kennedy the pastor of a children’s ministry. He has since been fired from his job at the Grace Baptist church in Karns and is charged with human trafficking and patronizing prostitution. Zubin Parakh, a volunteer creative pastor at the Lifehouse Church in Oak Ridge was also arrested.

Here’s a great blog entry by reader Megan von Bergen, who is sympathetic to the Benedict Option, but with a strong caveat. Excerpt:

A Mormon and frequent commenter here who blogs under the name MC on the “Junior Ganymede” blog has some long, interesting thoughts about how the Benedict Option might play out for LDS church members — and some advice on how it should. Excerpt:

Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,

I recently received requests from two different readers, one asking for articles covering the “mindset” of globalists (why they do what they do), and another request for articles covering globalist “occultism.” I find that these two topics are very difficult to pursue with a large number of people for a few reasons: