I'm not remotely an expert in Baptist theology, but I'm curious how you square congregationalism and "soul competency" with banning women pastors

This is just bleak as hell, man. The end of the idea of development and international assistance. Was it completely altruistic in the first place? No! But the main non altruistic instinct was putting giant USA letters on the grain to feed starving people.

Sarah McBride (ordained Presbyterian elder) and Raphael Warnock (Baptist pastor with a PhD from seminary school) are both considered less "Christian" than Donald freaking Trump.

Solid rule of thumb is never trust a pastor who dresses like a 2010s hipster www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-m...

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I'm 51 and I don't think I've listened to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea all the way through

In all prior generations a 10 year old would have greeted you with tears of wonder if you made them listen to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

I feel we may come to regret the era of "everyone in public life (well, men mostly) acts like a 13-year-old"

You should be able to unsubscribe from election mailers once you've made up your mind about who you're voting for

Purebred Lobster.

it's a big claim, but i may have found the most mental youtube video

Is Wu-Tang dad rock now?

the first guy to try and describe déjà vu was probably killed by his community so fast

Sadly this will never come to fruition youtu.be/liUwMD-1gYY?...

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

My wife sent this to me - some implied criticism perhaps

Was undecided in the Montgomery County executive race, but this guy is making a strong pitch

I liked Ncuti Gatwa and he had some good episodes, but it's pretty clear the series was running out of ideas. (The Billie Piper regeneration only being the most egregious example.)

Bad Bunny was originally a pagan symbol before the Church turned him into an avatar of the Christ

Taylor Swift's gift is narrating particular romances with touching little details, whereas Olivia Rodrigo's gift is abstracting from her own experiences to general features of modern relationships - it's the old Aristotle vs Plato clash.

I drink milk on my hands and knees straight out of the cow's teat like God intended

Me, on a work call: "Yeah, last year's World Cup final was pretty exciting" Everyone else: "Uh, that was four years ago" Me:

"The lesson of Wood’s work is not that the Revolution was a finished achievement to be commemorated, but that it was never finished at all" www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-histor...

How about you Switch 2 reading the Holy Bible

That's right www.theodramatist.com/early-modern...

don’t be all the stereotypes of an earnest nerd chat. you can afford to throw a little confidence into your life, say “I don’t care who said it, dumb, next topic” and keep it moving.

No better weather reporting for the D.C. area than @capitalweather.bsky.social !

I really don't understand what the stakes of being deemed a "real New Yorker" are. Do you get a discount card or something?

Your morning image

Gordon Wood's defense of the US as a creedal nation and opposition to rising ethno- nationalism is something I refer to a lot and use in class. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

I think about this Tweet a lot.

There's no rule that you have to write a 15-post thread responding to some dumb Tik Tok

Grown adults getting mad about video games remains extremely embarrassing

I had an LDS friend who was both politically liberal and very much did not want Mormonism to be assimilated to generic Christianity

With the IRA the Biden Administration tried market-based carbon emissions reduction while the Trump administration is pursuing a degrowth strategy instead. RIP Paul Ehrlich you'd love this shit.

RIP Gordon Wood, famed historian of the American Revolution era, who was struck by a car and killed yesterday at the age of 92. www.golocalprov.com/news/pulitze...

I was talking about this today with a colleague, the other problem with data centers is people love to blame AI for them, but AI is only like something like 10% of floor space in data centers now. The rest of it is the fact we all love to post a lot of bullshit online, and disks take up space

that’s enough internet for today

The HR Lady is the person who tells you not to sexually harass people, so it's telling some dudes use it as an insult

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This is going to create new and incomprehensible forms of horseshoe politics.

Good morning, friends!

With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s

I guess I also don't see where Gen Z socialists are against free trade and globalization. They're not the ones cheering for Trump's tariffs. They're not the ones seeking to limit the freedom of movement of the world's immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. 1/

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

What's my "vision of masculinity"? What the hell kind of a question is that? Are you stupid? Get out of here with that garbage.

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Just say no to parasocial relationships with politicians, folks