Can you believe it? June is over. This shouldn’t upset me, but truly, it seems like time is drunkenly careening down a steep hill with no breaks and no sense and should get a hold of itself (what are time’s preferred pronouns I wonder) and slow down for a minute before some catastrophe happens. As a way of arresting its insane progress, how bout some Takes? One Got to be with John and Kathy on The Ride Home again yesterday.... Read more
I like to jaunt over to goop every now and then just to see how they’re getting on. I find them all, especially Gwenyth, totally fascinating. This morning, though, seemed pretty calm on all fronts–the usual fantastically priced tiny bathing costumes greet you when you arrive, and there are all kinds of pastel colored advice columns. Finally I landed on the compilation of pictures from goop’s recent wellness day, called, so cleverly, in goop health. All the backgrounds are pale... Read more
Mr. Zuckerberg might find that we are Literally Nothing like a little league enterprise. Read more
I ran into a hashtag in twitter, yesterday, for English words that are pleasurable to say. I spent thirty seconds searching in my mind for the word ‘Bucolic’ but it unhappily evaded me and I wandered away to fold laundry. It’s one of the great tragedies of our time–trying of think of something to tweet and not being able to. Speaking of twitter–and this is totally not what this post is about–but my big inhibition about tweeting is that I... Read more
Good Morning. This week we weigh on the fact of its being Gay Pride Month and what a grievous concept that is. How should Christians frame the theological question of homosexuality and other sexual immorality? How should the church act and be? We try to answer some of these questions. It’s not the most cheerful podcast we’ve ever done but we hope you’ll forgive us and listen anyway. First up, here is the CT article that we talk about that... Read more
Complaining is one of my most obvious spiritual gifts, my special charism, if you will. And two of the things I like to complain about most are first, the state of evangelicalism in America, and second, weddings. Now, in principle, I am for weddings. It’s an idea I can get behind. Two people in love, beautiful dress, gorgeous flowers, a lovely party with friends–a wedding is not one of those dark moments of life, like trudging through the grocery aisle... Read more
Yesterday I said I was going to Read Moar Books. When asked which books I was going to read I promised to blog about them, so as to put off actually cracking them open a few minutes longer. The thing is, I have been slowly and deliberately trying to rebuild my reading muscle. You know how it is, life happens. Back in the day we all read books because there was literally nothing else to do, out there in wilderness... Read more
Kelly’s Takes today are a brilliant roadmap to a trouble free summer and I applaud and greet her for saving me the work, especially when I wasn’t going to do it anyway. It’s true, what with the solstice and all, that summer is finally here. And summer, of course, is when you get your act together and do all the things you avoided doing during the school year. But it’s also the time to lie back and catch up on... Read more
I don’t understand the racially pockmarked landscape that surrounds me. Even though I read about it all the time. Read more
I’ve spent rather too long a time in the last two days watching avocado videos on Facebook and Twitter. I didn’t even have to looking for them. Somehow, because I said the word into the Podcast air, they just appeared, like a whining child the minute you touch the telephone app on your device. Truly, I read that our (and by ‘our’ I mean a group from which I fundamentally exclude myself) obsession with the avocado is causing a worldwide... Read more
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