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August 2021

August 24, 2021

I Should Have Known

I'd live here if required. Well, here we are again, back online. I mean “we”...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

Three Important Things on Thursday

Jesus watching me organize my day. The First Thing My proper review of Beth Allison...

July 07, 2021

I Bet Sauron Doesn’t Even Eat Breakfast

Well, I didn't want to, but I did read that thing in the Guardian about...

July 06, 2021

How To Be A Better Person

In spite of constantly cleaning my house and not being online, I do keep running...

July 04, 2021

Happy Radical Dependence On God Day!

I'm over at Stand Firm today. It is the very early dawn and a firecracker...

June 2021

June 25, 2021

7 Canceling Takes

Well, it's almost ten in the morning and the trucks are outside my window shouting...

June 24, 2021

Propaganda Does Not Make Good Art

Me longing to read a really good book. This is really good, though not what...

June 22, 2021

A New And Better Kind Of Man

If you haven't gotten around to reading Jesus and John Wayne, K du Mez has...

June 20, 2021

Job and John Wayne: A Meditation for Father’s Day

I'm over at Stand Firm this morning. It is Father’s Day and there is a...

June 18, 2021

7 Takes on The Self, The Longings, The Chosen, and The Algorithms

Is it Friday? Looks like it. After a week of excessively light blogging, let's see...

June 10, 2021

Bathsheba, the New Atheists, and All the Cheetahs

I haven't got a lot of time this morning because, well, we complicated everything by...

June 09, 2021

What Use Is Fear?

This guy doesn't look scary. In my wandering around the internet, I found this, a...

June 08, 2021

If I Get A Kitten I’ll Name It Lilibet

Mother Earth waiting for us to go away and leave her alone. Somehow I missed...

June 03, 2021

For Pride Month Eschew Pride

Don't worry, I'm not going to talk about Pride all month, even though it is...

June 02, 2021

Peonies and Pride Month

Well, it's pride month, which around here doesn't mean much because those little flags are...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

The Body Does Matter

I was reading a lot of LeaveLoud tweets and feeling very discouraged about the state...

May 26, 2021

God Is Not Like You

A few weeks ago I ran across the term "platonic marriage," about which I have...

May 25, 2021

Some Things On Tuesday

Me reading the news this morning. There seems to be tumult all over the world...

May 14, 2021

7 Dubious Takes About Science and Technology

It's Friday, so let's see, are there any takes? One This is a wonderful and...

May 13, 2021

Glennon, Gwyneth, and Jesus on a Throne

It's the Feast of the Ascension--that surprising day when Jesus rose up into heaven and...

May 12, 2021

An Interlude in the Garden

The world seems such a wretched mess this morning I think I had better turn...

May 11, 2021

The Coming Deluge

This is an interesting article about a coming church "split." I don't quite think that's...

May 07, 2021

Anne Against Machines

Oh, is it Friday? And It's already nine o'clock. I don't think I can get...

May 02, 2021

He is Awesome in His Deeds

I'm over at Stand Firm this morning. I had three different posts started for this...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

If You Don’t Have the Energy to Manifest Anything

I was wandering around youtube yesterday looking for more in the genre of What I...

April 27, 2021

How To Criticize The Church

Backed up as I am on all the different kinds of reading, I was surprised...

April 25, 2021

When Hate Has A Home

I'm at Stand Firm this morning. On our quick trip there and back again, Matt...

April 20, 2021

Reading and Flying

Jesus excited to see what happens to him in the Book of Longings. Sorry to...

April 18, 2021

Two Funerals and an Amazing Grace

I'm over at Stand Firm today. After attending yet another funeral in the morning yesterday,...

April 15, 2021

Physician, Heal Thyself

I have an immense treat for you this morning. I happen to have a very clever...