Politics is a cruel god that demands we celebrate the death of our enemies.

Grilled onions and peppers, chili, cheese. Sometimes a dab or two of Louisiana hot sauce in the chili too.

I just realized that Platner looks like Mark Driscoll with a bushy mustache and beard, and now I can’t unsee it.

This is what scares me the most about having a daughter who looks like she could be an immigrant. She has severe allergies and dietary restrictions. Even one day in ICE custody could be devastating or lethal. It wouldn’t matter if we found out where she was held, took her birth certificate and

If you could change one thing in your life today, what would it be?

Russell Moore is right. Christian Nationalism is just the prosperity gospel on a national scale. Instead of believing it about the individual, it believes it about the collective.

Graham Platner isn’t Donald Trump. But he is proof that Democrats might just be willing to elect someone like Donald Trump if it meant winning. And no, that’s not a good thing.

Told my wife today that Qatar is pronounced Cutter and she didn’t believe me.

Is Megyn Kelly going to hell? Well, I don’t know why she’d want to go to Heaven since there are Haitians there and she can’t elect someone to kick them out.

No Amazon Recommendeds, I don’t want to read Mere Christendom by Doug Wilson. Eww.

As I’m going throw bleak falls barrow and just finished fighting the giant spider holding Arven captive, it just occurred to me that the three desiccated corpses in the room that all have lockpicks as their loot, might have been designed that way to show they are thieves that got caught by spiders.

This is one of those messages that seems like a gotcha. It’s not entirely without a point. But it overlooks the actual issues at play here. If Starbucks was a place where people worked with children for long periods of time, you would see just as many predators trying to get hired as you do…

It was a choice to make all of Jarl Balgruuf’s children little psychopaths.

Red curry pork for dinner. Not my first choice, but the green curry paste is now impossible to get at my Walmart. Meh.

My second to last kohlrabi and beet harvest of the year.

Roasted potatoes, onions, kohlrabi, and beets.

Supporting Platner doesn’t make you the same as someone who supports Trump today. It does, however, make you the same as someone who supported Trump in 2015.

VBS craft ingredients prepwork.

C.S. Lewis believed that Hell was locked from the inside. That all who go there choose it and prefer it to Heaven.

My daughter’s nickname in middle school is her initials. Which she thought was cool. Until she found out that my nickname in high school was also my initials, which are the same as hers. Now it’s not so cool.

Egg fried rice is a perfectly acceptable breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.

You know you are talking to a teenager when they say that the sailors yeeted Jonah into the ocean.

Pulled up my lettuce and spinach today and put down my tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers.

Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

As I’m looking at Jonah for my sermon on Sunday, I’m struck with a thought. If God called you to go proclaim judgment upon Trump and Maga, and you know that means they might repent and be forgiven and blessed by God; would you run away like Jonah did?

Present, Imperfect, Future, Aorist, Perfect, Pluperfect.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

First beets of the year. One is a little smaller than I’d like, and they are all early pulls, but should hopefully make room for more growth for the others

No matter how far we’ve come, I can’t wait to see tomorrow.

Critics of Contemporary worship music. “Too much ‘Jesus is my boyfriend’ songs. We need more robust theology in our music like the old hymns!” Hymnodist “He’s the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star, he’s the fairest of 10,000 to my soul!”

I think I might be able to harvest my first beet in the next week or so. My cilantro is bolting though, and that makes me sad since I never got to use it.

Find something to hope in that is more local than national politics. Find something to invest your life in. Make a difference in your community. You cannot change what the White House, or Congress, or the Supreme Court are going to do today. But you can change your neighborhood for the better.

Be kind to someone today. Then be kind to yourself too.

Kohlrabi leaves look very similar to beet leaves, but the veins are purple instead of red.

Cherry tomato plants are starting to put out their first blossoms, and my beet roots are starting to form! Look at those luscious leaves.

Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood has been an absolutely charming read so far.

No one lives forever. There will come a day when you die, and your friends and family will gather to remember your life and mourn you. What is it you want them to say about you? What is it you want your life to inspire them to do themselves? Let that guide how you live your life now.

You cannot simultaneously believe that Trump is a senile old man who can’t hardly function. And Trump masterminded multiple fake assassinations in order to gain and maintain power, and has successfully covered up each one.

Being part of a healthy church community is such a game changer as a pastor. I would hope it is the same for members and return visitors as well.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

It may feel risky to acknowledge what you see with your eyes and know in your gut—that the narcissists and incompetents have power only because they live in a bubble bouyed by sycophants—that the emperor has no clothes—but I promise, once you face it, you will not be alone.

My lettuce bed is going nuts right now. And it is tasty goodness.

Few things are worse than filling a cup with water and drinking from it, then looking down and realizing there was dried milk in the bottom of the cup that is now floating in the water.

AI taking over education will be a disaster, even if AI is perfected to be able to give accurate answers all of the time. What happens when the creators of AI decide what counts as accurate information, and if they decide who to sell it to and who to withhold it from?

It’s ironic that a lot of what we call outreach involves trying to convince people to come into the church for events.

The world doesn’t need to be re-enchanted. We do.

My lettuce and spinach bed right before my first clippings. Going to have home grown salad with my pizza tonight!

All the world is sacrament, and every square inch of the earth is holy ground. Every breath is alive with the spirit. Everywhere around you the image of God walks, even in the mirror.

The tale of Sir Balin and the Dolorous Strike is a bitter tale that might be fiction, but still holds deep truths. Rash and impetuous men damage more than just themselves, they lay waste to all around them.

Just because Evangelicals are finally having to grapple with the reality that they elected a blasphemer and an anti-Christ doesn’t mean they are going to no longer vote for him or the next person who has his backing.