I sometimes think to myself that people dwelling in the mists of lost time might not have had physical health–what with medicine being in many cases completely uninvented, and life in general being both brutal and short–but from all appearances (at least what’s survived in the telling of history) they had some level of mental and spiritual health. The material reality of poverty gave a person something to do–try to survive in a sin saturated and broken world of which... Read more
[This cat hates you and your unwillingness to give her cake.] Yesterday was National Pasta Day, which I discovered by getting to be on The Ride Home With John and Kathy. I was there to talk about Toxic Masculinity but the more immediate concern of the day was what kind of pasta everyone likes to eat best. In the opening segment they describe such various and luxurious kinds of delicious pasta dishes that it was almost too much to bear–for... Read more
We think that knowledge is power. We think that just by knowing more information we’ll be able to put right what we destroyed. Unhappily, though, it is not. Read more
Good Morning. It’s all gray and cloudy here, and cool, which means that children are going to cry about not having sweaters, which we forgot even existed in all the 80 degree weather. But never fear, we did up a nice podcast for you all about whether it’s worth bothering with the gospel. You know, that old historical one propagated by Jesus himself. I wonder if there’s any chance it could be useful now? You know, because everything else we’re... Read more
Do more theology face to face, she admonishes, preferably over a good meal and a beer. It's a sane thought, and one that should come to our minds more often. If you don't relate to people face to face, having the totality of your relationships mediated through the vacuous unhappiness of social media, you may have perfect theology, but you probably don't have love, not in the classically biblical sense. It's very possible you have turned into a resounding gong. Read more
In the spirit of believing, even though it is manifestly and verifiably never ever ever true, that if I could just organize my life perfectly I would never ever ever fall into sin and trouble, I did spend another angsty week flirting with the idea of another schedule overhaul. I should just rearrange these two moments, I said to myself, and wake up seven hours earlier, and then everything will fall neatly into place. I will stop being the failure... Read more
Friday! Thank Heaven! How bout some Takes? One It has been weighing on my conscience for a whole week that I have not leapt onto the Internet to announce a critical discovery that I’ve made, that will probably change your life as it has mine. You know how it is though, I’m a busy person. So, Sorry! Please forgive me. What it is is, you put your two eggs, in their shells mind you, into your electric tea kettle, filled,... Read more
The same people that tweeted nice things about Hugh Hefner are embarrassed by Harvey Weinstein. Read more
I hate the expression “woke.” It’s just ghastly. Read more
There’s a lot of crazy stuff out there in the world this morning. I awoke listening to the long saga of Jesus being unjustly tried before the Sanhedrin (you know, you hit play, you go back to sleep, you wake up and try to orient yourself into the daylight, discovering that you slept through seventeen chapters of Matthew) and then wandered away from that to see what’s going on on the interwebs. And it seems to be the usual–Facebook is... Read more
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