One If you were looking for a book to help you read the Bible in the New Year, I wrote one ages ago. Feel Free to give it to all your friends who don’t have it yet. Two I’m on the Stand Firm Podcast this week as a special guest along with Bethel McGrew talking about Spiritual Friendship and Revoice. We could have gone on for several hours, I think, but tried to be concise on such an enormous subject.... Read more
Anyone who knows me online or in real life knows that I like to–and have always liked to–complain about the general ugliness of things. Perhaps I didn’t indulge this proclivity aloud as a child, but it was something that began to press on my conscious when we would come to America and have to go to a long stretch of highway called West Eleventh. West Eleventh was where you had to go if you wanted to buy a car or... Read more
So things have been pretty dark over here. There are several reasons for this–some of them good reasons, some of them dumb and bad. The first is that I spent most of the year trying to decide if I should even blog. I’m into year six or thereabouts of my justly earned midlife crisis and I just haven’t been able to figure out what to do with myself. Certainly, having a six-year midlife crisis is probably a little bit chichi... Read more
This tree is from last year. We haven’t found one yet for this upcoming Feast. It is a bright, crisp day here in the Northeast and so we’ve rousted ourselves to do a moderately lengthed podcast about whether or not it is ok to tell your children about Santa. Matt insists that he has never been told about the non-existence of Santa and to get off his lawn,. We go through an Ask John Piper Transcript to explain why we... Read more
It is a gray, depressing day here in Binghamton and so we knuckled under and did a decently podcast in which we talk about the internet controversy of the last week, even though we promised ourselves we wouldn’t. We try to vague-cast but then give up and just talk about it. We also neglect our weekly passion reading and forget to talk about the turkey, which was a wet brine and totally delicious. Back to the grindstone. I don’t have... Read more
A bit late this morning–taking people hither and yon. But we did manage to do a decently lengthed podcast about how you should cook your turkey, the level of the badness of your moral character if you put marshmallows on sweet potatoes, whether the middle ages were better or not, and some other stuff as well. I think it should set you up for a week of cooking and eating. Which is to say, Happy Thanksgiving!! Truly, I don’t have... Read more
It is a cold, gray day here in the Northeast, which is what we have all been expecting. To acknowledge this fact we’ve done a longish podcast about all the usual stuff–the cat living in our garage, the cat living in our house, the dog in our house, the state of the new clown world, the new patriarchy, and how everything is so terrible. We end up with a solemn reading from the Passion Bible. This is what we mostly... Read more
It is a bright, balmy. warm morning here in the Northeast. I must admit I am longing for the cool wind of winter. Never ever thought I would say that out loud. To cope, we’ve done a decently lengthed podcast in search of a topic. Every fifteen minutes or so we cry, “this is what we can talk about!” On the way there we discuss how much we hate the time change, various political candidates, the Korean War, whether General... Read more
Dusting off ye olde blog…does it still work? If it does it will be a total miracle. You can thank–or blame–God, whichever you like best. Anyway, it is the end of October. Therefore we have done a shortish podcast about Elon Musk, Revoice, Reformation Day, and how you can hurt yourself by sleeping in the wrong bed. It’s all the same subjects in the usual order just the way you’ve come to like them. Also, that picture there is actually... Read more
It is a chilly, foggy day here in the Northeast. To acknowledge this fact we have done a reasonably lengthed podcast about the stuff going on with Ulta Beauty and about how the New Apostolic Reformation is not a Christian thing, ending off with a reading from the Passion Bible. We chat about affection tests, birthdays, Target, and how where you live both matters and doesn’t matter. It’s all you could possibly expect. Let see, as usual, I have no... Read more
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