Jesus looking for something to read after Church. As you all know I’ve been reading that new Glennon Doyle book for the last long while, punctuated by brief videos of me explaining that you’re not a cheetah. The exercise, though annoying, has served to humble me through all the many pages. “I mean,” I’ve said to myself as I’ve gone back and forth across my kindle screen, “some great people were raised up in the church to cope with Arius... Read more
Oh well, that doesn’t sound hard at all. As I labored through the week I wasted a little bit of time googling things like “Women’s Bible Studies” and “Glennon Doyle” and “Rachel Hollis Divorce” and ridiculous stuff like that. And, well, the result of my investigations is that I have some thoughts. One Googling is stupid. Instead of doing that I could have read a whole ‘nother book or written one myself. Two If you want to talk to big... Read more
The First Thing This is a pretty great review. I do love a sarcastic book review at least once a week. The reviewer, in this case, seems to really hate the book. Here’s how it ends: “I’ve argued that humans have evolved to be fundamentally sociable creatures,” Bregman writes – as though this is a brave thing to argue, though absolutely no one in the world disagrees with it – “but sometimes our sociability is the problem.” Well, sure. Gun-toting anti-lockdown... Read more
Well, this is pretty interesting. I don’t, I’m sorry to say, understand half of it. I only discovered the term “girlboss” very recently when wandering down various rambling trails searching out information about Rachel Hollis. Moreover, I don’t know who any of these people are. I’ve had other better things to do than read about the lives of women trying to make a buck off other women. But here is some sort of description of a girlboss from the piece:... Read more
I shoved this in my links yesterday without much comment. I do feel like it is pretty interesting, especially since, several weeks ago, I spent a lot of time thinking about the Karen Phenomenon. I think we did even talk about it on the podcast at one point. I’m very much on the side, as much as possible, and within reason, of a live-and-let-live manner of life, and have therefore appreciated the humor and horror of watching a person who... Read more
It’s a sultry, humid day here in Binghamton, and I am about to go make a lot of delicious food for a birthday picnic, but first, we complained for about half an hour about how the conversation about race today is not meant to actually make things better but is designed to make things worse, and about how it’s important to repent of actual sins that you actually do. Matt gets all steamed up, as you knew he would. Enjoy!... Read more
It used to be said by some people, like a few weeks ago or something, that what unites us is greater than what divides us. Meaning, look at all we have in common before rushing off to do battle. The divisions might appear to be very important, but they are not nearly as essential as our common humanity, as the sense that we are all alive and share a single ancestor and all eat food and all belong in families... Read more
It’s Friday and I had to work on some other stuff this morning so I did up a little video instead of writing. Think of it as a treat, or something–maybe something. Enjoy! Read more
In an effort to avoid my own life and to-do list (what am I going to do, run the vacuum?) I’ve been wandering around the internet watching videos of Glennon Doyle, then Melton, talking about her second memoir, Love Warrior, which came out in the far distant past of 2016. Goodness, if I could write a memoir every five years to correct the record of the one before…scratch that, I’m going to wait till the end of my life because... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm today. Enjoy! ******************** I’ve been slowly reading through JK Rowling’s “Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues.” If you have time, it is worth the effort—she reiterates many points I’ve run into elsewhere. She clearly and, I must say compassionately, lays out the dilemma for both women and for people suffering from gender dysphoria. Moreover, she is by no means a social conservative. She doesn’t have any trouble with the idea of men... Read more
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