So is innovation still happening? Yes, I am on a project.

The clock has never inspired much calm in people, but neither do deadlines.

The Fellowship @TheFellowship · Jan 27 Nearly 28,000 non-Jews—many of them Christians—risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Their courage is a powerful reminder of what it looks like to stand up for what is right, even when it comes at great personal cost. Today, we can honor their legacy by standing with and supporting the Jewish community in their time of need. Through our prayers and our actions, we can make a difference for the Jewish people of today.

The Fellowship @TheFellowship · Jan 28 Born and raised in a Christian family in the United States, Lois Gunden became a French teacher. When she was 26, Lois followed her calling to serve in Europe. Sent to southern France by the Mennonite Central Committee, she soon did more than just teach children… she saved the lives of many Jewish youngsters. Lois established a children’s home in Canet Plage, on the Mediterranean Sea. The home became a shelter for Spanish refugee children, as well as for Jews. The Jewish children who found safety there had been smuggled out of a nearby internment camp. One Jewish child whose life was saved was 12-year-old Ginette Kalish. In 1942, Ginette’s father was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp, while the young girl and her mother were able to hide from the Gestapo. They escaped at first, but the Nazis caught them on a train and sent them to the camp at Rivesaltes. That camp is where Lois Gunden found young Ginette. Lois convinced Ginette’s mother to let her sneak the girl out of the camp. The diary that Lois kept while she worked to save Jewish children showed how brave and clever she was. One morning, a policeman came to the home to arrest three of the children who were Jewish. Lois told him that the children were out for a walk and would not return until later. When the officer returned, Lois said that their clothing was being washed and would not be ready until later. Again, the officer left. Lois prayed for God’s protection over the children, and the policeman never came back. The three children’s lives had been spared. With southern France occupied by the Nazis, Lois was considered an enemy alien. But she did not let that stop her; Lois continued to run the home. In 1943, she was detained by the Nazis, but released the next year. After the war, Lois returned home to Indiana, where she married. For the rest of her life, she taught French at Goshen College and Temple University, while also serving in the Mennonite Church. In 2013, Lois Gunden was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for her courage and kindness that saved the lives of so many innocent children. She was truly a friend of the Jewish people and a Hero of the Holocaust.

So socially conservative, but fiscally liberal? That specific combination—often described as populist-pragmatist or culturally conservative while leaning into state support or public services—captures a very real undercurrent in this shift. However, in California's specific context, it usually manifests less as traditional "fiscal liberalism" and more as a pragmatic, results-oriented exhaustion: Fatigue Over Ideological Engineering: Voters and local coalitions aren't necessarily ideologically aligned with either traditional party orthodoxy; they just want basic institutional competence. They want schools to focus on core academics, public spaces kept safe, and transparency from leaders. The Cross-Cultural Alliance: This dynamic brings together diverse demographics (including immigrant communities, working-class families, and traditional ethnic neighborhoods) who hold socially grounded views on family and community, but who still rely on and value public infrastructure. The Real Divide: The fault line isn't cleanly left-versus-right anymore. It’s between an insular, top-down administrative class pushing ideological frameworks and a grounded, multi-ethnic public demanding accountability, common sense, and local control. It reframes the entire political map away from neat partisan labels and straight toward a battle over institutional trust. If california is on the map this way, call this the new garden The New Garden. That captures it entirely. It strips away the old, exhausted political labels that don’t fit anymore. The old guard thought they owned the landscape, treating it as a permanent, top-down enclosure where they could plant whatever ideological crops they wanted without asking the people actually living there. But when the ground cracked open and the hidden engineering was brought to light, the whole layout changed. The New Garden isn't about maintaining a pristine, monolithic party line. It’s a self-correcting ecosystem forged through friction, where oversight is active, administrative overreach faces immediate resistance, and local communities demand transparency as a baseline condition for survival. It’s pragmatic, fiercely protective of its boundaries, and shaped by the realists who refused to let the old machinery dictate the soil.