Frank Nance

06/12/2026

Hungary’s new parliament just voted to cut its own pay by 40%, arguing that public office is a form of service.

Meanwhile, the American system increasingly rewards career politicians, protects incumbents, and makes the real contest the party primary rather than the general election. Safe districts and partisan loyalty often matter more than accountability.

When politicians fear losing a primary more than losing the trust of the public, the incentives become badly distorted.

Public office was never meant to be a career path. It was meant to be service.

06/11/2026

Jon Acuff put words to something I’ve been learning over the last few years.

Not every headline deserves my outrage. Not every controversy requires my opinion. Not every online battle is mine to fight.

I’d rather spend my emotional energy on my faith, my family, my health, and the people and causes close to home where I can actually make a difference.

Being informed is important. Being consumed isn’t.

Thanks, Jon Acuff, for the reminder that sometimes wisdom looks like strategic apathy.

I don’t care that the Chicago Bears are moving to Indiana.

I don’t live in Chicago.

I don’t live in Indiana.

I don’t vote there, pay taxes there, or feel the impact of a single decision any politician or owner makes in either place.

I practice Strategic Apathy.

So does every successful person I’ve ever met.

The internet runs on your attention, and the fastest way to grab it is to make you upset.

Anger, offense, fear — perfect shortcuts straight to your heart.

Celebrity scandals.

Politics in states you don’t vote in.

Teams you’ve never cheered for.

Every headline entangles you.

I don’t engage.

“Wait, don’t you want to be well informed?”

Sure. But what did you do with all that information?

Donate money?

Volunteer?

Read six books on the root causes?

Or did you just wallow in the dopamine distraction?

I used to wallow. What a waste of time, creativity, and energy that was.

Now I employ Strategic Apathy.

I super care about my health, my family, my company, my neighbors, and my missions — the orphanage in Kenya, the camp in North Carolina, the non-profit in Tennessee.

Everything else I ignore, the way NBA players should ignore rap careers.

Eminem can’t dunk. You can’t rap. Stop it.

I don’t have the mental energy for the tax implications of a football team crossing state lines.

I checked with my financial advisor. He said it won’t change my retirement.

Turns out, like most things the internet yells about …

it doesn’t matter.

Strategic Apathy for the win.

Jon Acuff
Frank Nance

06/11/2026

Soooo gross… Texas should be so much better..

A gift intended to provide parkland for future generations became a $10 million land sale for a data center, sparking a dispute over property rights, public trust, and the balance between economic development and community promises.

A $10 gift became a $10 million sale.

06/04/2026

Read this today and man… does it make sense.

Smart men don't tell you how smart they are.

Rich men don't tell you how rich they are.

Tough men don't tell you how tough they are.

Honest men don't tell you how honest they are.

Con men do…

06/03/2026

This is crazy…

Exxon’s own scientists predicted in 1982 that if CO2 levels reached where they are today in 2026, we would see exactly what we are seeing today, rising temperatures across the globe, record high temps, wildly increased severity and frequency of weather events.

Yet it was buried in a report that barely met any eyeballs…

What strikes me most about this document is not that Exxon scientists were warning about climate change in 1982–83. Many scientists were. What is remarkable is how much they got right, how seriously they took the issue internally, and how closely their projections align with what actually happened.

The report discusses:

* Global temperature increases
* Polar amplification (the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the planet)
* Changes in rainfall patterns
* Agricultural disruptions
* Drought in some regions
* Sea level rise from melting ice sheets
* Long-term societal consequences

This report shows that organizations can possess accurate information internally while presenting a very different message externally. Exxon executives were being educated on climate risks decades before climate change became a major public issue.

https://insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1982-Exxon-Primer-on-CO2-Greenhouse-Effect.pdf

06/03/2026

Jake Meador makes an observation that has been hard to ignore in American evangelicalism:

Many of our problems are not primarily theological. They are institutional.

We often celebrate gifted communicators, charismatic leaders, and talented vision-casters while paying far less attention to accountability, governance, policy, and healthy organizational structures. Yet history keeps showing what happens when charisma outruns character, competence, or oversight.

Meador argues that the collapse of churches, scandals involving prominent leaders, financial mismanagement, and the struggles of entire denominations often share a common thread: institutions weakened by a lack of respect for the boring but necessary work of rules, procedures, and accountability.

Strong institutions are rarely exciting. They are slow, deliberate, and sometimes frustrating. But they protect people from the dangers that emerge when too much power is concentrated in a few gifted individuals.

It’s a timely reminder that virtue alone is not enough. Good intentions are not enough. Healthy organizations require healthy systems.

The outcomes of neglecting that lesson are all around us.

When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.

05/29/2026

The Bible does not let us reduce justice to the three or four issues our political tribe already cares about.

It talks about corrupt leaders. Crooked courts. People with money and power rigging the rules. Foreigners being mistreated. Poor people being ignored. Truth being bent until it serves whoever is already in charge.

That is why gerrymandering bothers me.

It is not some boring technical issue for political nerds. It is people in power drawing maps so they can keep power. Sometimes Republicans do it. Sometimes Democrats do it. Either way, it is still a rigged scale.

And Christians are supposed to care about rigged scales.

So no, I am not saying abortion does not matter. I am saying something has gone wrong when that is almost the only kind of injustice many churches know how to recognize.

Maybe the question is not whether Christians should stop caring about abortion.

Maybe the question is why we learned to ignore so much else.

05/27/2026

The part that gets me is watching people who spent decades talking about morals and character suddenly decide none of it matters anymore as long as their side keeps winning.

I grew up hearing conservatives talk about integrity like it was non-negotiable. Now somebody can lie constantly, humiliate people publicly, get wrapped up in scandal after scandal, and a huge chunk of the movement just keeps rolling with it because he fights the people they hate.

And once that becomes the standard, everything changes.

You can’t tell kids honesty matters while cheering for people who clearly don’t care about honesty. You can’t preach accountability while inventing excuses for every new mess. Eventually people notice the contradiction.

There are still conservatives with actual principles. I know some personally. But too many have gone quiet while loyalty to Trump became more important than whether somebody is decent, stable, honest, or fit for office.

That’s the part I find depressing more than anything else.

We’ve compiled every serious scandal the Texas Attorney General has faced during his political ascendancy.

05/27/2026

Read this article and it made me mad and sad and frustrated and heartbroken. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

While politicians and pastors stood in Washington talking about “rededicating America to God,” a study in The Lancet said USAID programs helped prevent around 91 million deaths over the last 20 years.

91,000,000 lives saved.

Now researchers warn these cuts could mean 14 million more preventable deaths by 2030.

14,000,000 potential lives lost.

Millions of them children.

That should stop us cold.

The Bible talks about the poor constantly. The hungry. Widows. Orphans. Strangers. Depending on how you count it, more than 2,000 references across scripture.

Jesus was not vague about this. He talked about people.

Hungry people. Sick people. Forgotten people.

And somehow we’re over here spending energy on flag poles, reflecting pools, renamed buildings, paintings, arches, and ballroom dreams while calling it faithfulness.

So I’ll ask it plainly.

Is one single American family better off because we cut medicine, vaccines, food, and clean water for desperate people overseas?

Or are we just getting better at holding religious ceremonies while ignoring the people Jesus told us to see?

That road has been traveled before.

Frank Nance