The largest United Methodist church in America just told its children’s workers to stop saying “boys” and “girls.” A message circulating inside the Church of the Resurrection offered a list of replacements so every kid would “feel welcome.”
Suggested stand-ins included “peep-a-doodles,” “homo sapiens,” “niblings,” “kiddos,” “kitties,” “comrades,” and “folks.” The graphic credited a transgender-identifying singer and LGBTQ activist as inspiration.
According to reporting from Breitbart News, the internal note read: “Hey! In follow up from our conversation on Sunday about our words and working towards being more gender neutral so that all kids feel welcome….here is the promised list of words we can start using instead of boys/girls.”
The bottom of the image attributed the ideas to Sara Levine and Mila Jam, whose legal name is Jahmila Adderley. Wikipedia and her own posts describe her as a transgender singer, songwriter, and activist. She has celebrated becoming the first Black transgender artist to co-headline Boston Pride, posted “Happy Non-Binary Awareness Week to all my Enby Fam,” and publicly backed Kamala Harris.
That is the source the church’s children’s ministry pointed staff toward while rewriting basic language for kids.
This is the same Church of the Resurrection that previously partnered with Kansas City PrideFest and sponsored a “Drag Queen Story Time & Gay Pride Festival.” Images identified the church as a 2025 sponsor alongside promotions for the event’s “Youth & Teen Tents,” which advertised stage performances, free books, story time, and arts and crafts.
Pastor Adam Hamilton is now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, running to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall. The gender-neutral push for children is only the latest item drawing scrutiny to his pulpit and his politics.
Hamilton has long treated Scripture as negotiable when it collides with modern sexual politics. In a 2015 panel hosted by the LGBTQ-affirming Reformation Project, he asked how much “latitude” Christians have to push back on Paul and whether they can say “Here I think Paul’s wrong.”
He has supported the United Methodist Church’s decision to drop language calling homosexual practice incompatible with Christian teaching, a change that helped drive thousands of congregations out of the denomination. Townhall and other outlets have documented his sermons on white privilege, Black Lives Matter, and the carbon footprint of Kansas cattle.
Scripture does not leave the male-female distinction optional. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
That binary is not a greeting-card slogan or a social construct. It is the created order. Teaching children to erase it in the name of “welcome” does not protect them. It confuses them. Hamilton himself once invoked Jesus’ warning about those who harm little ones and suggested a millstone, yet his church is now training workers to treat the ordinary words “boy” and “girl” as potential sources of exclusion.
Daily Wire previously reported that Hamilton once told his congregation he was unsure how to advise parents of young children identifying as transgender. He asked whether adults should leave identity decisions entirely to the child. That uncertainty has not stopped the children’s ministry from circulating activist-inspired language lists.
Meanwhile, Hamilton draws a $394,239 salary from the church he founded, plus hundreds of thousands more in publishing royalties, while his financial disclosure lists a net worth of up to $20 million. He campaigns against billionaires and special interests from a megachurch platform that has also sponsored Pride events aimed at youth.
Kansas voters now have a clearer picture of the man asking for their Senate vote. The same congregation that feeds people and runs book programs is also rewriting basic language for children because a transgender activist’s ideas looked useful on a graphic. Parents who send their kids to church expect them to hear about creation, not about “peep-a-doodles” and “comrades.”
Marshall and others have already highlighted the Pride sponsorships and the theological drift. This latest memo simply removes any remaining ambiguity about the direction of the largest United Methodist church in the country and the candidate who leads it.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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