Have been trying to say away from the David and Bathsheba dust up but, as with Kanye, can’t. help. myself. Going to weigh in and regret it later. Really like this piece. Very helpful and calm in distinguishing between a biblical definition of rape, and the one we use in our own day. Basically, the article says clearly what has been swirling around in my head the last week. Which has been a circling round the differences between Tamar and... Read more
Have been resisting jumping on the Kanye West train for at least a week, but can endure it no longer. It’s such an fascinating phenomenon. Mr. West, having slipped into the back of a church service several times earlier in the year, finally talked to the pastor, and then, when he moved from LA to Wyoming, flew that pastor to his new house once a week for bible study, because, well, why wouldn’t you. (I mean, are there even any... Read more
I took that lovely photo as we were flying down the road yesterday, trying to get to the airplane on time. Why on earth would someone name a large moving object “Impact”??? The whole impact thing has gone too far. It’s really time to walk away from it as a word and never return to it again. Anyway, sorry, that’s not what the podcast is about. Having trouble remembering. I think we talked about how no matter what you think... Read more
I was absolutely charmed this week to watch a video clip on twitter of a rather well to do middle aged man, sitting at a table in what purported to some kind of church service/experience. His voice was heard above the din, crying out in some sort of prophetic tongues or utterance—at least, that’s what he would have said. But as he carried on, without much coherence, or really, none at all, he seemed to become bored and so picked... Read more
Well, this seems like it’s been a long week, how ‘bout some takes. One This is really discouraging and bad. There was an attack on a base in Mali and something like 60 people are missing. The group taking responsibility, Ansarul al-Islam, seems to have a real foothold in northern Mali and Burkina. If you feel like praying, especially remember isolated Christians who are often singled out. Two Someone should tell Africa where their real threat lies—global climate change. We... Read more
My current internal state. The First Thing This video is amazing. Of all the things going viral on the internet, this is a deserving one. Of course, the shares are not uniformly positive. Some are very unhappy about her light sentence, pointing out that if the table was turned, it wouldn’t be ten years behind bars and nobody would be giving hugs. That is undeniably true. A lot of young black men go to prison every day and nobody cries... Read more
I missed the boat on the Apologizing to Plants moment a few weeks ago. I saw it blowing around on twitter but there were so many things on twitter that day I couldn’t focus, and so other people said more helpful things about it, and I moved on with my life. But the organizer of the time thought it expedient to explain himself further, so that we might all observe the inherent reasonableness of bringing a lot of house plants... Read more
Well, I had something important on my mind today (Kanye West) but that was swiftly punted off into the ether just now when I saw this. What a gift! But first, I was on the kindled podcast recently with the glowing and very not oppressed Haley Williams. We talked about Rachel Hollis, of course. I certainly had a good time so I’m sure you will too. Ok, so, get this, turns out motherhood is oppressive. And you didn’t even know, oh... Read more
It’s a gray and cloudy morning in fair Bing, as usual, and we are as cheerful as one might expect. I’m going back to the dentist, so you know how that will be, and everyone else is doing whatever it is they do. I would say it’s going to be a great day, but that would be lying. Anyway, we’ve done up a pretty decent podcast where we laugh our heads off about the Law of Attraction, which is apparently related... Read more
One thing I noticed as a child, as I was trundled back and forth across the world, seemingly from one end to another, going into the comfortable living rooms of anxious mission-minded Americans and then back across the continent to the more spare living rooms of missionaries, and finally into the dusty courtyards of our village—though, I should say, I wasn’t so clever as to notice it on my own, it was pointed out to me—is that everyone feels poor.... Read more
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