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Advent Ending
While it didn’t quite happen, I did have high hopes for a solid Advent season. I had planned on slowly reading through some of Augustine’s “Advent homilies” as recently collected by the Davenant Institute. Unfortunately, not even pre-ordering the books … Continue reading
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Just As I Am [December 19-20, 2024]
It’s not just the fact that there’s water under the bridge, it’s the amount of water the flows under the bridge in such a short amount of time. In those terms, I suppose this Advent season has been a flood. … Continue reading
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Early Thought on The Skeleton Crew
We’re two episodes into Star Wars: The Skeleton Crew, and the best mystery has nothing to do with Jude Law’s character. That’s a nice twist. Episode three drops later this week.
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On Thanksgiving
A song for Thanksgiving Day (and every day, really) from Andrew Peterson. Best super-long song since “American Pie.”
Believing and Beseeching
Not sure how I missed this, but I did. U2 just remastered and released How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in celebration of its 20th anniversary. And it also shared a number of unreleased singles from that window of time. … Continue reading
Movies and Meanings
This past weekend was a rare, double-feature weekend for me. First up was The Outrun, which tells the story of a recovering alcoholic trying to make-do in the Orkney Islands. The lead, Rona, is played by Saoirse Ronan, whose life … Continue reading
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Civilization, Culture, and What Comes Next
I finally got around to watching Paul Kingsnorth’s “Against Christian Civilization” lecture. I kept putting it off but had a good friend that kept reminding me to watch it. It does not disappoint. What he has to say is difficult … Continue reading
On Screening Screens
The conversation around smart phones and social media and screens continues, with schools being a primary flashpoint. Two people behind this necessary focus have been Andy Crouch (of The Tech-Wise Family) and Jonathan Haidt (of The Anxious Generation). The two … Continue reading
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The Fuel You Use
I’ve thought a good bit about internal and external motivations since my trip to Yosemite. There’s an echo of that conversation in this recent post by Seth Godin, where he writes about what “fuels” you. Motivation matters, I think. But … Continue reading
Against Reductionism
Fred Sanders begins The Deep Things of God with a distinction that is worth making in many areas: the emphatic and the reductionistic. He’s thinking specifically of the Trinity in relation to the many other things that healthy evangelical Christians … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 