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February 2022

February 22, 2022

What Could Possibly Go Wrong

Tuesday seems to be the official day of discombobulation. This week, it wasn't that the...

February 18, 2022

At Such A Time As This

Well, here is Friday again, and another ice-storm to mark the occasion. In honor of...

February 10, 2022

Eyes and Skin

This is the most wonderful thing I've seen in ages: A Russian art gallery guard...

February 09, 2022

In The Kindest Way Possible

I honestly haven't had much time to notice anything online the last few days, except...

February 02, 2022

Identity and Obedience in Revoice 2021

I did not intend to take so many days away from this blog--last week and...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

Look At Me!

No, I mean, no, you really don't. I seriously should not be blogging this week...

January 18, 2022

While Congratulating The Winner Of Course

The Truth is knowable and personal. The Truth, when you find him, can tell you...

January 05, 2022

What Is A Pastor To Do?

Yesterday was a long day and so I am late bellying up to the morning...

January 04, 2022

That’s Not Our Biggest Problem

I came across another notable Christian last week who was proposing, as so many do...

December 2021

December 02, 2021

The Windswept Plains of the Heart

My review of Wholehearted Faith and What Is God Like? went up yesterday (somehow I...

December 01, 2021

Broken Hearts and Clarity

Yesterday was a long time of driving people around town, as one does when all...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

You Can’t Channel Him Because He’s Not Dead

A dear and wonderful friend sent me an article about the most fantastical religious trend...

November 18, 2021

Paganism, Manifesting, Rachel Hollis, and Me Rushing Around

Every post has to have a picture, so here's a nice one of my pets....

November 17, 2021

There’s Another Way To Tell It

A woman's work--particularly her email inbox--is never ever ever done. I managed, yesterday, to finish...

November 11, 2021

I Believe the Word You’re Looking for is Gaslighting

Well, I’ve just spent a remarkably long time watching the French president make a speech...

November 10, 2021

It’s Not Funny

I was about to start blogging yesterday when I realized that I had to rush...

November 03, 2021

Life and Death on Wednesday

Me contemplating the Metaverse. Well, I was up late helping a child with some sort...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

There Is Something About Us

Is it Thursday? It is, but I only have one thing because I've got to...

October 21, 2021

Three Things on Thursday

As usual, I didn't mean not to blog yesterday, I slept long past my ordinary...

October 14, 2021

Meditation Upon the Death of a Pet

Ash, as I like best to remember him. My Death of a Pet piece is...

October 08, 2021

7 Takes: Mostly Birthday Edition

Matt would not eat this, of course, even if it were still his birthday. Well...

October 05, 2021

In Which I “Manifest” Rambling Thoughts About The Dangers of Manifesting

Don't do it. Don't manifest. Being so ill (well, not that ill, but ill enough...

October 01, 2021

That Kind of Love is Not Love

It's been a long week in which I've read and watched a lot of discouraging...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

Maybe Everybody Was A Little Bit Wrong

A visual representation of Lasch's "Consumer-in-Chief" To pace myself through Bjork-James' The Divine Institution, which...

September 19, 2021

If You Have to Make a Promise

I'm over at Stand Firm today. I had a whole bunch of important things to...

September 15, 2021

Death on a Wednesday: John Shelby Spong and Norm MacDonald

UPDATE: I've corrected this post with the proper spelling of Norm MacDonald's name. Should have...

September 08, 2021

Searching for “Lived Coherence”

This is super interesting. Here are some money quotes: In the next few years, two...

September 02, 2021

Tweets for Thursday

If only Twitter were only about birds. I was going to do books for Thursday,...

August 2021

August 27, 2021

7 Takes Back to the Grind

This is the dog that came and sat on me. One Well, isn’t it late...

August 26, 2021

Every Lady Her Own Book Reviewer

Don't worry, I'm not going to go on blathering about The Lord of the Rings...