And this is ^after^ some auto-balancing in The Photo Shoppe

So a question that some smart missiologist out there has asked has to be, Where did the Kuomintang get the Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church from? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritu...

So cuss fired het up I'm about to make a powerpoint

None of that has anything to do with "fiduciary responsibility to the organization" -- which is a fake idea, cobbled together from ERISA and wishes

501c3s can advocate for issues, they can't do political campaigns, the IRS has a whole rubric to let you know what is campaign vs advocacy

That's poppycock!

"The resolution includes phrasing that requires the A.H.A. to take a political stance, and that would be problematic in terms of mission and in terms of the fiduciary responsibility to the organization to ensure its continued nonprofit status" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...

Way too many people for a Fairfield Porter ptg, but that's my closest analogue

It's fair of folks to ask "Is there something I'm missing," but for most churches most of the time, they are in possession of the deepest local sources, and the national archives, as pictured here, has to ask them for content

Going into my file of "archives are about something NOT held in common"

Last little bits of work on this filmstrip on South Sudan that I digitized before the break: digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/27...

Hit me up prima 🙏

"The 2004 sexual harassment lawsuit contends that Kujundzic, who taught a popular class on vampires and signed his e-mails with a colon to symbolize Dracula bite marks" oh buddy, JD, you went all in for the Dracula enjoyer?

Archives Fever: played, run-down, no one has actually read it

Archives Hot Goss: cool, spicy, irresistible

I would like to read new scholarship on this old issue, but also, I'm very content with the Times: "the pipe-puffing Frenchman threatened to pull the plug on the archives because he was furious about “some things the university was doing,"