Oh my word, what should I do? If only there were some objective source, other than my feelings, for me to consult. Oh Well. So, well, Kanye is going to Lakewood this weekend. So that’s disappointing, but not unexpected. I’ve been busy all week thinking about the parameters of division, and of the judgments necessary to determine when to divide and why. I’m trying to write like two things and they’re not really coming together in my mind. Hopefully they... Read more
Apparently I talk about the snow a lot on Fridays (don’t worry, I know today is Tuesday). Peering at the piles of it in the gray light of the early morning, I thought I would just search my own blog to see how often I perseverate about the wretched stuff. Turns out kind of often, and especially on Fridays. From a brief glance, I can see that I may even be a bit of a whiner. Something about it makes... Read more
It’s a gray, cold Binghamton morning, one I would have preferred to sleep through, but instead I agreed to let myself be dragged into a podcast about self-marriage, Veteran’s Day, and Steven Furtick. We say all the things, or at least a lot of them. I hope it makes the sun come out, at least metaphorically. Let’s see, I only have a couple of links because life has been so crazy busy. Here is an interesting and depressing article. This... Read more
This morning is a mashup of the resurrection. Psalm 17 is laid out alongside Job 19 and the awkward bit of Luke 20 about the poor woman whose seven husbands all died. The problem for me is that I love Job 19 so much that everything I try to say about it always sounds sappy. Whereas, I loath the Sadducees for coming up with such a ghastly theoretical scenario. So there’s a woman, they say, and she marries one of... Read more
This cat, who was so ill, is feeling so much better, thank Heaven. Oh, well, how awful, there’s snow on the ground. One I really hate it when it snows before all the leaves are gone. It’s untidy. Matt, on the other hand, likes it. Somehow, this explains everything about the difference between the two of us. Two I deleted facebook and twitter off my phone this week out of a sense of deprivation and emotional fatigue. I think that... Read more
Me getting ready for 2020. The First Thing John Crist has cancelled the rest of his tour for this year. I can’t say—and I know this makes me a cynical person—that I’m that surprised. He did give off—to me anyway—a hefty ‘playa’ vibe. If anyone had come to me and asked, ‘should I date him, he’s a christian’ I would have said, ‘meh, I dunno, he clearly has some growing up to do.’ Clearly, though, this is the work of... Read more
Single is out, Self-Partnered is in. So says Emma Watson who did an interview on the eve of her thirtieth birthday. The bit that everyone is tweeting about is this: The actress – whose birthday is in April – says there’s an “influx of subliminal messaging” around about what you should have achieved by that age. “If you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby… There’s just this incredible amount of anxiety,” she told British Vogue... Read more
I’m in to week two of the Great Wretched Clothes Change Over of 2019. This year, for reasons so insane I can’t even quite understand what they are, I decided to open up the bins in the dining room, thinking it would take me two days max, because the laundry room is right there, and I would be able to plough through everything, moving clothes from bin to washer to dryer to bedroom and back round. Well, that was deranged.... Read more
Good Moaning. We roused ourselves from the usual Monday stupor to talk about a whole lot of things—the Pachamama statue, Kanye, what constitutes essential doctrine, what’s wrong with Puritanism, and why Josh Harris is still wrong. Matt talks really fast and I periodically interrupt him, also we complain about our own sound quality. Enjoy! Here’s the blog post about Josh Harris. Here is a video by the young man who was so incensed about Pachamama. Here is the other podcast... Read more
Jesus, surprised you thought it would be easy on account of how he kept saying it would be really hard and you would not enjoy yourself. It is turning into a vice, but every morning I do go and check out the fashion and celebrity news on Flipboard. It aggregates all the things that famous people are saying, along with vague news articles about Boris and Trump, fluffy cat pictures, and listicles galore. The only bad part is that it... Read more
Preventing Grace
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