Spent a pleasant hour wandering around Aldi listening to the the Sheologians interviewing KSP (i.e. Sane and Good) and then came home and rewatched this trite answer to violence in our time (as in Insane and Bad), and despaired all over again about the state of Public Discourse in our time. First of all, the little video, which you should watch, is of an imam and a rabbi standing against a blank brown wall, holding up signs with words in... Read more
Good Morning to you all on this quiet gray day, the perfect day for pulling weeds and strewing mulch in all directions. We’ve done up a scintillating podcast about, um, let me see, what did we talk about…how weird Evangelicals sound when they talk, how weird that Oceans song is, how emotionalism obscures reality. I think that about covers it. And now some links. Some nice links. Carl Trueman saying obvious things about Christian worship. In a word, yes. A... Read more
The great tragedy of our times is that we still do need men, no matter how much we prefer to believe that we don't. Read more
I oughta be up and buzzing around, doing all the things because it’s Saturday. But of course I’m not. I seriously relapsed this week into a deep level of tiredness, akin to that of when I was not taking the allotted amount of thyroid every day. Drug myself around with the idea that I was a functioning human, while all the while not really being a functioning human. Finally realized and took a long nap, and then went to bed... Read more
Going to try to accumulate the clever things I wanted to say about parenting yesterday, but didn’t, touched off by this fine article about how wonderful the ‘Spanish aesthetic’ is in children’s clothes. The pictures of Princess Charlotte are to die for. One I agree wholeheartedly that it matters how a child is dressed. I learned, after thirty seconds of being a mother, that the best way for me to feel love and affection for my mewling infant was to... Read more
Yesterday, some of you might have noticed, I was up with the lark, or rather the woodpecker, sucking down Bewley’s and tapping wildly away on my screen so as to be out the door no minute later than 7am. Today I am still wandering the pathways of the internet, sure that in just a few minutes I will feel like getting out of bed, and it is the late hour of nine. I am sure you appreciate these updates, along... Read more
One of the things I look forward to most in life is having an audible credit show up in my account and then methodically counting back to whichever 44 Scotland Street book I get to have next. Then, I try my very best to eke out the book all the way to the next credit, which is an entire month–a lifetime really. Imagine my horror, then, when I scrolled carefully along and discovered that I had come to the end.... Read more
Rob Bell, you remember, still self identifies as a Christian. And so does Glennon. And that's the problem. Read more
It is very bright and cheerful out, the sun bashing down and making all New Yorkers wilt, except me. All my bones are finally comfortable and happy. This morning we talk about The Office, how not to raise children, Werner Twertzog, Anglicanism, and Bernie Sanders. Also, the dog barks, the children bicker, and a truck arrives to dig up the street or something. It’s probably our best one yet. And now, Links. Here is David Ould with the leaked letter.... Read more
After persistently devoting every single laundry folding minute to The Office, it took the whole winter to get all the way through all nine seasons. Truly, it was like climbing K2. Only without the suffering. There were several things I liked very much about the series. The first was the unglamorous nature of all the sex. I know that nothing on tv can avoid having lots of this main thing in everyone’s life, but I really liked the deeply awkward... Read more
Preventing Grace
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