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Was "Blue Like Jazz" a good idea? Rethinking Donald Miller's popular book. I'm with @aahales.bsky.social @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/blue...

#CalvinistsAgainstTrump 8 years ago Donald Trump instituted his Muslim immigration ban. Amidst the Seattle airport protest a single conservative Calvinist locked arms with a sea of liberal hippies. It is still unclear how many of them accepted Abraham Kuyper into their hearts that night.

Some personal news.

We are excited to share the announcement of our publishing partnership with @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social and @shadihamid.bsky.social! New book coming fall 2026! Read more here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Here we go!

I made a coffee table out of barn beams.

bold

"when it becomes hard to cry seriously or to laugh passionately, then we really are on the downhill slope." God bless Pope Francis. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...

“each city is an expression of… the lifestyles of its residents… plus generations of the predecessors… it also shapes that lifestyle, making some activities attractive and convenient, and rendering others almost impossible… Cities are in fact moral agents..." - Wolterstorff.

After God. Amidst a nation's spiritual despair and moral confusion, citizens look for a strong man--a master. Tocqueville.

Religion that is hierarchical and institutional can also be egalitarian. Tocqueville on the Catholic church.

💥We're publishing a book💥 "Leading Worship for Workers" is going to be **packed full** of creative ideas and practical resources for designing Sunday worship that has a deep and lasting impact on Monday work. You can follow our progress at worshipforworkers.com

“To write a story is an act of Naming; in reading about a protagonist I can grow along with, I myself am more named.” - Madeleine L'Engle

“Christianity must be used polemically today against the worldly in the name of a better worldliness…” Bonhoeffer

Seminary student. While you must learn from a variety of theological traditions, never allow yourself to be a theological tourist. Know the difference. “Somewhere is better than anywhere” --Flannery O’Connor

“Losing kindness, they turn to justness.” - Lao-tzu

Without strange communities of grace, humility, and sacrifice "the world has no way to know or feel the oddness of its dependence on power for survival” - Stanley Hauerwas.

"We must learn to grow like a tree, not like a fire.” Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry on the downfall of big farmers (and pastors) "the quality of attention decreases as acreage increases"