Giving thanks for the life, legacy, and imagination of Calvin Seerveld (1930-2025). Rust in Vrede

"What is the most important thing a dialogue with an AI chatbot will never give us?" Ken Wettig, Coracle Journal (July 22, 2025)

RIP Tom Leher Thank you for the joy youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A?...

From today's NYT mini-crossword: Clue for 7-Across (7 letters): Left-leaning social media site Answer: Bluesky

The Fourth of July, Freedom, & Frederick Douglass (photo from Ruth Naomi Floyd's "Fridays with Frederick" collection) drive.google.com/file/d/1F8OC...

I am with @michaelrwear.bsky.social , @esaumccaulley.bsky.social , David Koyzis, etc. Wear writes: This is a bad, bad idea for the country and an even worse idea for the credibility and authority of the local church... thehill.com/homenews/538...

Not to drone on, but... Слава Україні! Героям слава! 🇺🇦

It's official. 4 years NED. Thanks be to God!

Congratulations to Marie Howe for winning the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for #Poetry

@karenswallowprior.bsky.social has very gracious published my essay on The Pilgrim's Progress, both text and audio. "You and I Meet the Monster" karenswallowprior.substack.com/p/pilgrims-p...

and there was much rejoicing

Holy Saturday - breaking my social media fast

We have found Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture, & the Arts to be a great resource for Lent. It's a beautiful and thoughtful blending of reflection, poetry, music, and art. The 2025 Lent Project: The Last Words of Jesus: ccca.biola.edu/lent/2025

On the 3rd anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, some pastoral thoughts on prayer (edited from 2022). Included is my imprecatory prayer that was published in the Congressional Record. May God bring Ukraine victory, justice, peace. May God have mercy on Russia. drive.google.com/file/d/1rTO7...

In my opinion David Brooks recent speech at ARC is brilliant. youtu.be/QSa52TR9tCA?... Glen Scrivener's critique of ARC (and Jordan Peterson's influence on ARC) and Brooks (and Tim Keller's influence on Brooks) youtu.be/B-j59rplugs?...

Maia Mikhaluk is the wife of a Ukrainian pastor who until now has been posting primarily about the beauty of Ukraine. www.facebook.com/share/p/152Q...

I wholeheartedly commend these brief remarks by my trusted colleague, @cahutch1990.bsky.social , "in support of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's (and thus everyone's) religious freedom" and in response to House Resolution 59 chrishutchinson.substack.com/p/should-con...

honoring presidential leadership marked by character and courage

Bonaparte, I know. Trump, I know. But who is Anders Behring Breivik? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_...

Reposting from 2022 youtu.be/52gTLnPg4lk?...

“You’re sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well…I am as sorry as you are! Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am, because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are…So we’re both sorry, all right?”

48 years ago today, an unexpectedly wonderful thing happened. 💘 @sherylfro.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1qnHo...

Augustine, Aquinas, the Ordo Amoris A Response to JD Vance's Interpretation www.davidpcassidy.com/blog/thomas-...

“The conclusions we are able to draw simply from observing the world in all its anarchy and pain will never tell the full story. Sunny optimism or despairing pessimism can’t be our only options if Jesus, the friend of sinners and sufferers, is alive.” ~ Wesley Hill’s “Easter,” released yesterday

Suggested reading/viewing: “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. t.co/6HylIwWPR8 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July,” Frederick Douglass drive.google.com/file/d/1cNN5... Reading While Black, Esau McCaulley How Far to the Promised Land, Esau McCaulley 1/

Recently I found this interview with Fleming Rutledge, @frutledge.bsky.social. It was done a year ago by Russell Moore, and they talk about the Cross of Christ and FR:s book on the Crucifixion. youtu.be/04ojM6-L4Qs?...

I live in a state with two D Senators, so no real need for me to do this. But if you have a R Senator, consider doing this - if you agree that any of these four nominees are unfit for their nominated position. We are still a democratic republic. Use your voice. www.nixthenoms.com

In the early 2000s, RFK Jr was doing great work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms, and we talked about going to NC together to document the problems. Then he started crazy talk about vaccines. My column on the threat he poses: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

And @andyrolsen.bsky.social with the story of the first man arrested at a church - who had a work permit and was awaiting an asylum hearing. "She doesn’t know why ICE would arrest her husband at church. 'With the bracelet they could find him anywhere.'" www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/shou...

Yes - I’m not sure a lot of Americans realize this is happening right now and is ongoing. TB, malaria. I’m hearing from more hospitals that have had to stop HIV testing and laid off staff. If ppl knew how hard it is to build these local health systems in low resource settings - it is gutting

Using our position of authority to get our own way, serve our own ends, crush others, and silence and frighten them is an ungodly use of power.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave... 1600 promises broken with the stroke of a pen: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...