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  • Evangelicals, are ya’ll okay?

    “Star spangled sacrilege”

    April 26, 2024
  • Lent 2024, Day 26: Does Jordan Peterson Get Christianity?

    Sounds like Kermit.

    March 14, 2024
  • Lent 2023, Day 37: Hold on.

    “The path to the mountain cuts through the valley of death first.”

    April 5, 2023
  • Lent 2023, Day 21: Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

    I forgot to wear green.

    March 17, 2023
  • Lent 2023, Day 15: Revival.

    Need so much reviving, we’re in the ICU.

    March 10, 2023
  • Lent 2021, Day 30: This is a really bad sermon, too.

    I’ve got another entry for the “Bad Sermons” tag…

    March 23, 2021
  • Lent 2021, Day 18: Very, very, very wrong.

    And just like that, it’s later-latter rain, and a brand new Upper Room, complete with monthly Zoom calls.

    March 9, 2021
  • Lent 2021, Day 14: White light and the visible present.

    Sigh. The sad state of American Evangelical Christianity today, and how it got here.

    March 4, 2021
  • 220px-Marianne Stokes St Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor

    Some Sunday Stuff: November 23rd.

    Happy Sunday, All. I’ve been to church and Starbucks, the forecast for today and the next couple days is above freezing, so I’m feeling pretty optimistic.   In pondering what I’d post…

    November 23, 2014
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    Is rap poetry?

    Jay Z: a 21st century poet?   John McWhorter, writing at The Daily Beast, answers with a definitive yes:     To utterly naïve anthropologists sent to document the ways of Americans…

    July 10, 2014

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