I have been meaning to blog about this for ages, and so today is the day, even though it doesn’t feel pertinent, mid-week, especially a stressful one, when probably nobody is particularly worried about it. On the other hand, this may be just the thing. Here I will set forth the Law of Date Night for those to whom I kept promising that I would. Just one caveat, before we “dive” in. I am not being entirely serious about the... Read more
It is a cold, gray day here in the Northeast. We didn’t really want to bother, but we roused ourselves and made a pathetic effort at a podcast. We didn’t want to talk about politics but we sort of did. We didn’t want to talk about covid but we sort of did. We didn’t really want to talk about what we are reading but then we did that too. I’m sure it will be something–who knows what–for the beginning of... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm this morning. In the few guilty moments I did waste time online this week, I spent them reading about the possible implications of one or two companies owning the majority of the way most of us interact online—the, well, I won’t use “strangle-hold” but the tight fist control of what people are allowed to say. It was curious to be flying along through That Hideous Strength and then go and read this long thing that I saw linked several... Read more
It is Friday, so that’s pretty great. I’m going to wildly just fling a lot of links and stuff here because I’ve got stuff to do. One Ralinda, Liza, and I interviewed Alisa Childers for the Stand Firm podcast. You can listen to it here. We had so much fun. Tried not to embarrass myself with my fan-girlness but then gave up. Two This is my favorite meme of the week. I’ve been on a Lewis binge, so that’s probably... Read more
Well, this is interesting. The New Apostolic Reformation end of the church-going spectrum appears to be melting down: Privately and on social media, these prophets and their thousands of followers are slugging it out in an orgy of self-blame, recriminations and fantastical hopes that somehow before Jan. 20, God will bring about a victory for Trump. Others who’ve apologized for getting it wrong have gotten accusations, curses and even death threats. And: At least 40 charismatic Christian leaders predicted Trump’s... Read more
Me at home looking at my beautiful purses and then putting them away again. I know there are a lot of important troubles transpiring in the whole wide world, but I deleted Twitter from my phone so I don’t actually know what any of them are. I am one tiny inch away from deleting Twitter from my life altogether, except that it is the only way that I have communicated with a handful of beloved people, and I’m afraid of... Read more
In all the swirl of bad news and uncertainty about the future, here is something pretty depressing, depending on how you look at it or what your feelings are on the subject—some might experience a rush of gladness, others a foretaste of doom. The article breaks down the stats for The Episcopal Church for the last forty years and projects what we might expect to see in the future: Marriages (future estimates in italics) 1980 38,913 1990 31,815 2000 22,441... Read more
Well, is it Monday already? We decided to face facts and do up a nice long podcast about the Religion of Trump, about why it’s actually complicated and terrible, but there is a way out–Moar Wodehouse. No really, I’m not kidding. If you only have time to read two things, read the Bible and lots and lots of Wodehouse novels, and slowly your worldview will come back into proper realignment. We try not to mention the apocalypse, and honestly, I... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm today. Today at home, and at church I think, I’m going to be celebrating Fake Epiphany. It’s not actually fake, it’s just that the feast fell in the middle of the week, and rather than stopping everything and thinking about it on the day, we’ve moved it to Sunday (today). In this way, we actually do get to talk about the visit of the kings and don’t have to go into the muddy terrain of... Read more
Is it already Friday? Could. Have. Come. Sooner. One So, this has been an exciting week, and not in a good way. I haven’t been able to keep away from the news, much to my own personal sadness, and have not prayed nearly as much as I am always meaning to. The doom scroll was invented for such a time as this. I found myself shouting at one of my older children, “What do you mean you don’t know what’s... Read more
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