Figured out iTunes! Well, I didn’t. Somebody who possesses true knowledge did. Later this afternoon The Preventing Grace Podcast will be up there. Already sermons and classes from Good Shepherd are back in that important space. I’ll update the podcast iTunes link when I get it. [Update: And here it is.] For now, here it is in the more ancient and less cool way. This week we talked about the Anglican Trouble. In the course of roiling about what happened in the... Read more
We may indeed be facing the apocalypse. Bloomberg reports a tragedy of magnificent proportions, “Facebook Inc. is working to combat a decline in people sharing original, personal content, the fuel that helps power the money machine at the heart of its social network, according to people familiar with the matter.” Did you catch that? Some of us, well, more like most of us, have backed off sharing personal content on Facebook and that’s affecting their bottom line. This is really... Read more
A long while ago, seemingly years before I had reached the end of what Leila Lawler calls ‘The First Decade’, providence ordained for me to read her piece about ‘The Second Decade’. I should have saved it, and in a different kind of world I would take a few minutes to comb through her archives to find it. It was exactly the kind of jolt I needed to wake me out of the stupor of baby vomit and self pity.... Read more
I had some more things to say about feminism and Barbara Pym, but because I didn’t write them down or think about them very much, I can’t remember what they are. No, after posting yesterday, and going calmly about the work of the day, I was almost immediately sucked into the inevitable last quarter of the year vortex of panic. Remember that old book, The Purpose Driven Life? I didn’t ever bother to read it, even though I’m pretty sure... Read more
Part of my fantastical week of rest (that was just a little joke) included rereading Barabara Pym’s Excellent Women instead of facing down the pile of sensible new books which are meant to make me a better, cleverer person. I love everything that Pym has ever written, even Quartet in Autumn, which I still have to finish, and so love it on faith, even though everyone says I won’t love it by the time I finish it. But Excellent Women... Read more
I shouldn’t exactly be lying here messing around on the internet because I have a rather disagreeable doctor’s appointment in a short moment and then Matt has to mess about with our taxes, and there are a lot of other unpleasantnesses to be going on with because of having shoved them off in the interest of having something like a rest last week. Moreover, I’ve injured myself shoving furniture around, so I have a sore arm and hurt pride accompanying... Read more
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. – Psalm 127:2 I got to sleep in a few times this week. For me, that means sleeping until almost 7. The changes and chances of life and age mean that I will probably never be able to sleep until noon, or nine, or eight thirty ever again. But, at least I don’t... Read more
It’s the last day of our week off so we slept in, which makes this even later than usual. Hope you’ll forgive me. The Internet was kind this week in the providing of interesting reading. First up, though, here is our Podcast. We chat merrily about Trump’s Abortion Gaff and the whole prolife movement in general. And by merrily I mean that Matt sounds very calm and rational and I sound unhinged and hysterical–high pitched and full of fury, to... Read more
Ah, the sweet sound of children bitterly recriminating each other over April Fool pranks gone awry. A charming way to begin the day. What is the history of April Fool? Never mind, I don’t really want to know. And no, I have no announcements to make. I’m not pregnant. I haven’t accepted God’s dubious call to run a marathon. I’m not about to take a new and exciting job in Mozambique. I have no funny prank whatsoever to offer up... Read more
I had every intention of staying totally away from politics and seriousness all week on this blog. I am, after all, supposed to be indulging in a brief moment of rest before the intense sprint through the rest of Easter season, which includes the wrapping up of my school year. I’ve got lots coming up, and so I should be lazing around reading novels and ignoring anything at all of importance. However, for heaven’s sake, I can’t pass up this... Read more
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