Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

I know there is a lot going on, but my kids have just experienced the cultural moment of their first ever Cadburys Cream Egg - and it has blown their mind

Calvin on the beatitude "blessed are the merciful": “We must assume their (people who are suffering's) identity, as it were, so as to be deeply touched by their suffering and moved by love to mourn with them...it is the grief we experience from the sadness of others”

Easter Monday playpark views

Just exported Evernote notes going back to mid-2009 (16 years of notes!) as I finally leave the @evernote.bsky.social behind. This feels like the end of a chapter. @obsidian.md community - I may need your help in the coming weeks!

This afternoon is using up leftover roast lamb for a plum, lamb and anise curry

In Easter Season, add Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Halleluja, preist den, der mir Freiheit gab Halleluja, er besiegte Tod und Grab Alle Ketten sind gesprengt von dem Gott, der Rettung bringt Jesus, meine Hoffnung lebt Frohe Ostern!

Wir fahren die Wetterachterbahn

I don't want to get involved with whatever weird culture war the Brits are into but the Christianity that I converted to was not something I wanted to be part of. I became convinced it was the true account of reality even though I preferred others. Old Frostie here is badly confused...

there is also the presence of excommunication / church discipline implicit in this as well, but Calvin’s vision is primarily a positive one — he imagines folks filled with anxiety and fear, and the work of the pastor primarily of directing congregants to the almighty love of God 🥰🥰🥰

SIDENOTE: did you know that Calvin teaches that ministers are, in fact, endowed with the powers Christ proclaims in Jn. 20, Mt. 18? he differs, ofc, with Rome on *how* those powers are enacted — for Calvin the pastoral office is centered on the proclamation of forgiveness, and pastorally assurance

Sinnlose Begutachtungen. Demütigend. Autismus "geht nicht weg". www.diakonie.at/news-stories...

Heute war ich in Elstal für den Staffelübergabe unseres Schwesterbunds BEFG in Deutschland. Christoph Stiba scheidet aus dem Dienst des Generalsekretärs nach 13 Jahren aus - und Dr Maximilian Zimmermann fängt heute an. Ich wünsche beiden viel Segen!

A fine spring evening in Central Berlin

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Eep.

Please welcome our March titles: a lovely range from Hebrew Bible through a trauma lens, via liturgy and worship praxis in Charismatic Anglican churches, to some autistic perspectives on prevailing ideas of what prayer 'should' look like. Details below - and links to order...

Just stumbled across this line from Bonhoeffer which is an apt entry point into Holy Week: “There are only two ways possible of encountering Jesus: man must die or he must put Jesus to death.”

‘Changing a city is complicated’: Anne Hidalgo looks back on 12 years as Paris mayor

"For the entire time that Yiddish has been aware of itself as a language, Yiddish has been attending its own funeral, and I would even say, sitting in the back row and snickering a little bit." (And check out the @forward.com Forverts cameo in the thumbnail below) #doikayt

Here you go tswyatt.substack.com/p/i-told-you...

Good morning

After two days of snow, a warm sunset

A new chapter in European Church unity - European Baptist Federation and Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe Launch a Second Round of Ecumenical Dialogue www.ebf.org/post/europea...

Desperately sad for Bible Society researchers. YouGov errors lead to retraction of Quiet Revival report. www.biblesociety.org.uk/the-quiet-re...

"sure, Frodo, but we don't actually have to stand next to the volcano"

Gandalf proclaims: ‘The realm of Sauron is ended! The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest.’ The Black Gate and its towers fall. Orcs turn and flee. Gandalf asks the great eagle Gwaihir to carry him south. ‘I would bear you whither you will, even were you made of stone.’

This is one of the most moving liturgical movements in the liturgy for the Archbishop of Canterbury - for I have resolved to know nothing but Christ, and him crucified

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The number of displaced persons in Lebanon is now over a million. 20% of the population, roughly, is unable to sleep their home tonight.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

"Often evangelicalism has prided itself on being conservative, and we indeed want to conserve that truth that God has given us. Yet it would be at least as logical for evangelicalism to be adventurously liberal and critical as to be conservative. We can afford to be open-minded." John Goldingay

James Barr had to bring out the ALL CAPS for this article title.

Evernote are doubling (!) the price of my annual subscription. What are people using these days for notes etc?

Mir fällt in letzter Zeit auf, dass es in dieser extrem rechten Blase eine spezifische Form von Frauenhass gegen d eigene Ehefrau gibt. Das fängt an bei Anforderungen was sie alles können muss, um überhaupt als Ehefrau in Betracht zu kommen (jungfräulich, jung, bestimmter Kleidungsstil, kochen etc)…

"Every archbishop starts, like every president or prime minister, with expectations being thrown at them. Realising you’re not going to be able to meet them is part of the job. It is no walk in the park" - Rowan Williams #quotesoftheweek #quotes

Today’s the feast of St Joseph. Thanking God for those men who may not be biological fathers to their children, but who are still their dad.

An important first step based upon recent intellectual leg-work that has established not only Harriet Taylor Mill's inspiration for On Liberty, but also her actual authorship of parts of the text. 1/2

Die Westbahn nach Hause fährt heute über die alte Weststrecke (Weichenstörung?) - hallo Wiener Wald...

Been looking forward to the relief newest "Children of" by @aptshadow.bsky.social Listened for two hours whilst driving today and it is so delightful to be back in the spider universe

All this modern introspection nonsense. St Augustine would never have held with it

This is an astonishing story of bravery and moral courage.

Screwtape: “The use of Fashions in thought is to distract the attention of men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on the virtue nearest to that vice which we are trying to make endemic.

"Here you go," the guard said, "in you go with the others." The door clanged shut behind me. The cell was quite crowded, a quite homogenous group of men looked at me. How to say it in Latin? "Cur in carcerem es?" "We are also time travellers," one said in English, "here to warn Caesar."

Am in Edinburgh and I have ordered a latte with oot milk, as is the law.

Evening program at the Forum of the Free Churches in Austria. What do the Free Churches look like in 2040?

There’s an important new book on Soul Survivor and being the ‘revival generation’ coming out next month, #CofEpeeps. Let’s hear from the author… viamedia.news/2026/03/12/w...

This is a helpful background explainer on the way the Iranian regime is structured