Welp, the world didn’t end. So I guess we can still watch March Madness tonight! 🏀🌞🌑🌎
Agree or disagree? “Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” (David Allen, Getting Things Done)
Does anyone else out there feel like they have a pretty minimal collection of memories from their childhood? I remember a few highlights and lowlights. But most other people seem to have more memories from their childhood than I do.
What’s a word, phrase, framework, or concept that gave you the biggest “aha!” moment, describing something in your life that, until that moment, you didn’t have words for?
Connections Puzzle #300 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩
What are your weekend plans? We’re getting Indian takeout and watching a movie with the kids tonight. I’m excited! Would also appreciate good kids movie recommendations, otherwise we might default to rewatching Frozen for the 100th time…
I’m absolutely loving the Micro.publish Obsidian plugin to easily publish posts and pages from Obsidian to my Micro.blog! Do any #obsidian nerds out there have a good setup for quickly publishing something from Obsidian to a self-hosted WordPress blog? #obsidian #wordpress #blogging
Any Blackstone griddle enthusiasts out there? My wife really wants one by summer. I’m getting more excited about it. Just waiting for one with a hood to go on sale.
I’d like to read Iain McGilchrist’s work. Do I need to read The Master and His Emissary before reading The Matter with Things?
I’m on the lookout for a used pickup truck. Would love a Toyota Tacoma, but I’m wondering if they’re all overpriced right now? Any thoughts on Tacomas and/or other truck recs? I’m in NW Ohio, USA.
JK to the Trump thing!
Big ol’ “JK” to the April 1st “I’m now a Trump supporter” post yesterday!
I think Trump is a pathological liar, wannabe dictator, and a genuine threat to democracy. I’ve got plenty of religious/theological objections to him and his policies, but, even as just a red-blooded American, I think he’s a huge embarrassment to the country, an abandonment of what’s admirable and honorable about the USA experiment.
The descent of the Republican Party and large swaths of American “evangelicalism” into full-throated Trump-ism is one of the saddest and most frustrating things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.
I’m no fanboy for Biden and the DNC. I wish we had younger candidates on the ballot. I wish we had more than just 2 dominant political parties. I wish we had more candidates that represent a consistently pro-life ethic that, yes, protects the unborn and seeks to reduce the overall number of abortions, but also protects the rights of women, children, poor, minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ+, etc.
Nevertheless, I think it’s a mistake to reduce someone’s vote for president to any one issue. And I reject the idea that Biden and Trump are equivalently bad, or that the GOP and the DNC are equivalently flawed and dangerous to the country right now.
I think Joe Biden has done a decent job as president. I think concerns about his age, memory, etc., have been overblown. I think that critiques of the economy under his leadership have been overblown, and that the real state of the economy is much better than people tend to paint it.
I think that Joe Biden is much closer to the kind of reasonable political middle ground that this country needs. Much further away from extremism on the Left than Trump and his ilk are from extremism on the Right.
I think that, despite his flaws, Joe Biden is much less of a threat to democracy and to the overall welfare of our country and the world than Donald Trump is.
So, I plan to vote for Joe Biden again this November. And I think that others should vote for Joe Biden, too.
I put 1oz of Drambuie and a scoop of vanilla ice cream in my afternoon decaf coffee and it’s…not bad!
Honest Q: If you moved away from “penal substitutionary atonement” as the main way of explaining salvation, but you still hold Christ’s death and resurrection as central to redemption, how do you explain Christ’s death to young children? Your 3-5yo asks “why did Jesus have to die?” What do you say?
“Son of Man, can your bones live?” A sermon for Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil. joshuapsteele.com/son-of-ma…
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Don’t believe that Christian nationalism is a thing?
“The next time someone on the right scoffs at claims that Christian nationalism is rising, remind them that the Republican nominee for president is now hawking a version of the Good Book with an American flag on the cover and the country’s founding documents reprinted inside.”
I just got a drawing tablet and stylus (Huion Inspiroy 2 Medium) for my MacBook. What’s a good place to start for drawing software? Would like to be able to do sketchnotes, whiteboarding, logo sketches, etc.
Does your church provide Holy Communion at some point on Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday? If so, when? If not, why not?
There’s something special about last meals. joshuapsteele.com/maundy-th…
So, are home warranties just a racket?