Got to be on the Ride Home with John and Kathy again yesterday, although very grieved that Kathy isn’t well, and hoping that she is better very soon. I come in around the ten or fifteen minute mark. And, of course, If you are wandering around Twitter on Sunday afternoon you would have seen Karen Swallow Prior calmly answering a gentleman angry that I suggested Christian marriage is a really good solution to our cultural illnesses, that plus the gospel... Read more
Listening to Christmas music from October 1 to December 25 is the sacramental embodiment of the confused rush to have whatever I want right now. Read more
Christian Marriage is hard. But it's not as hard as recovering from abuse, from sexual depravity, from a generation of girls sold as property to a screen, the fantasy of socially isolated and morally broken men who don't have to do anything but take. Read more
I’ve been home now for over a week so I guess I should unpack. Seems like maybe the moment has arrived. For one thing I have some tulip bulbs procured out of a shop in the airport in Amsterdam buried under a layer of socks (which I also desperately require), books, and other items that I am sure I must be missing. I need to recover them and shuffle out into the back snow covered garden and ram them into... Read more
It’s Friday! That means Takes! One The sky is full of clouds and rumors of snow. This appalls, saddens, and alarms me, of course, especially since I discovered most of the snow suits perishing in varying degrees of mold and decay sometime back in August when I was cleaning the whole house (boy was that moment a kaleidoscope of futility in all its incandescent facets). When I discovered the horror I took them all and shoved them into the garage... Read more
You can’t make yourself happy, and the other person can’t make you happy, so what can you do? Read more
I feel like I blog about this all the time. But, unfortunately, I think it bears repeating constantly, because it’s the most basic fact of the universe, as integral to the order of the times and the seasons as gravity and the weather. Humanity isn’t good. We, all the people of the world aren’t good. We are only evil continually, as God noticed way back in the book of Genesis. And yet, we believe very much in our own goodness.... Read more
We, the congregation, were transfixed. Even the children. There was no squirming to distract any one of us from the horrid revelations of what could possibly go wrong should we come down with leprosy. And there was nothing in the sermon to remind us that Jesus healed ten lepers, or that at least one of them came back to say thank you. Read more
[These arrived at my house shortly after I did–a gorgeous present from a lovely friend.] Good morning, on this gray and rather mournful day. Woke up feeling very sad and anxious about the shooting in Texas yesterday. In defiance of the haters on twitter, I Am Praying, because it’s the best thing to do, along with whatever else comes along. Anyway, we did up a short podcast about my sudden trip, and my dad, and how hard it is to... Read more
The gathering of people into systems and groups makes visibly manifest the deep wickedness at the core of every human person. Read more
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