USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸🏀
Hoo boy, this USA v Serbia game is a nail-biter! 🏀🇺🇸
As soberly and positively as you can: Why are Harris and Walz good for the USA?
What are the best print editions to own for foundational documents of the United States of America? Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, etc. Reliable text a must. Critical/study notes would be a plus.
On the shortcomings of the Barment Declaration:
David Congdon, writing in The Presbyterian Outlook:
“Conservative Christians are able to reach this interpretation of Barmen not merely because they discount history but because of a flaw in the Barmen Declaration itself. The Confessing Church’s statement says that the church obeys the Word of God alone but does not clarify what this Word means apart from an abstract idea of freedom. The Word of God thus easily becomes a cipher for any position the church views as divinely mandated, which can range from caring for the sick and marginalized to refusing mask mandates. To be sure, this flaw is what allowed for the approval of Barmen in 1934, and it is unlikely that the Confessing Church could have written a more robust statement at the time. But that only reinforces the point that Barmen is not timeless and arguably should not be viewed as a normative confession in the Reformed tradition.”
What’s the cheapest/easiest way to get online access to the Oxford English Dictionary? Sadly, my local library (Toledo Lucas County Public Library) doesn’t seem to offer online access.
I’m just a man asking more places to sell Penn State Creamery’s Grilled Stickies cinnamon bun ice cream 🍨
People in the PCUSA, what’s the best/latest edition of the Book of Confessions and the Book of Order to get? Just curious. #presbyterian #pcusa
Got any Washington DC travel tips? My wife and I are going there for a weekend trip soon. Staying at the Viceroy. I want to see Lincoln, Washington, & Vietnam monuments/memorials, plus the Library of Congress. What should we wear/carry? Where should we eat?
I save up what little patriotism I have for international sporting events. Anyone else? For example: Went full “‘Murica!” watching the USA beat Serbia in men’s basketball yesterday. 🇺🇸🏀🏅
Isaiah 58, but it’s about Christian outrage that is/isn’t pleasing to God. “Is not this the ‘culture war’ that I choose: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”
Favorite Nietzsche quote. Go!
Evangelicals: “Communism never works, because people are sinful!” (cHrIsTiAn NaTiOnAlIsM) Evangelicals: “Well, see, this is different…”
Thinking about dropping my 2TB DropBox subscription and just going with my 2TB iCloud subscription. Anyone else out there paying for both these services? Any thoughts on dropping/keeping?
“Going to the gym for 15 minutes might not improve your performance, but it reaffirms your identity. It’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about becoming the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts.” ~ James Clear
Software developers! If you’re in the habit of using checklists and/or a daily journal at work, do you mind sharing examples, your checklist(s), what you’ve found most helpful? These are things I’d like to work on. #software #softwaredevelopment #checklist #work #productivity
“O gracious God, we remember before you today your servant and apostle James, first among the Twelve to suffer martyrdom for the Name of Jesus Christ; and we pray that you will pour out upon the leaders of your Church that spirit of self-denying service by which alone they may have true authority among your people; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”
If you’ve left Christian fundamentalism and/or evangelicalism, (how) has your reading of Paul’s instructions for the “strong” and the “weak” in Romans 14 changed?
“People don’t succumb to screens because they’re lazy, but instead because billions of dollars have been invested to make this outcome inevitable.” (Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism)
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” - Mark Twain