noticing a lot of people forgot what our greatest modern philosopher said about patriotism

[Kermit rising from the reflecting pool like Baron Harkonnen, dripping green goo, intensely sad] Hi-ho.

Three years ago leading up to Father’s Day I posted this thread on Twitter. It was my story up to that point. Two months later I met Rachel, we married, and now I’m a step dad to three more kids. Happy Father’s Day weekend folks.

Perfect day with the family on Lake Huron today. Check out the color/clarity of this water! Also I found a bucket list rock—a perfect crinoid star. 🤩

plans for the day

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Anti-slavery coin from 1838. Coins like this were produced in support of abolition and, later, to commemorate the end of slavery #Juneteenth Excavations on São Tomé revealed the 16th century origins of the plantation system exported over the Atlantic. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

Kayaking and rock hunting at Lake Huron

The Milky Way over Mills Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park this past Tuesday night. I did a little solo hike to this lake and ended up waiting four hours for the core to align properly and the clouds to clear. I’m pretty proud of the result!

Reflecting

“An epistle of straw” - Martin Luther

Shadow prayers

Watching The Hunt for Red October again as one will

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

Gonna need a new version of J Gresham Machen’s “Christianity and Liberalism” but it’s “Christianity and American Evangelicalism” this time. One hundred years later and there’s a new ideology trying to wear Christianity as a skin suit but so much less sophisticated this time.

Ignorant fool the-art-of-autism.com/living-on-th...

It has MSG in it?

It’s a passion of mine. I’m not doing it for the money

Hypertension: The Silent Killer

We are so back! Pizza made of sausage gravy, smoked Gouda, and eggs

I need dieworkwear guy discourse on tie length

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.

I can’t think of a better descriptor of what was so wrong and not historically Reformed of so much YRR era preaching than this. This is why I couldn’t stand guys like Paul Washer even why I was in that subculture.

WON’T HE DO IT

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

Finally made it home after 14 hours. What stepdad achievement award did I unlock for driving the stepdaughter to Louisville and back in one day to pick up her friend who will stay with us for the next week?

Ohio has achieved the impossible. Ohio has ruined Bucees.

Driving from Detroit to Louisville and back today. Pray for me as I traverse the terrible land of Ohio.

Proverbs 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.

We often seem to want people who have suffered terrible things to just “get over it.” They cannot. Evil has a real impact and does real damage.

TGIF programming is back!

Jim Adkins: “This lineup is like a dream come true for me!” Me: “Same, Jim; same.” And I got the full set list saved in a note and turned into a playlist

It was SO fun, y’all

Secured the bag

I GET TO SEE THE GET UP KIDS AND JIMMY EAT WORLD IN CONCERT TONIGHT! I loved both for over 25 years but never seen either of them live. It feels like Christmas.

If the Get Up Kids play “Like A Man Possessed” during the opener I may levitate

This is true, and it's grievous. AND: this is always the way the world worked. Christ was always opposed to "virtue...as a sucker's game", and it was always opposed to Him. But it has worn a mask for the entirety of living memory in the West. The difference now is that the mask has been discarded.

Scottish Presbyterianism “We run out o’ beer. That’s my only complaint.”

Great thread

Remember a little while ago when we all found out that a bunch of prominent right-wing influencers were straight-up paid by Russians and everyone just shrugged?

“No, that one I save just for me.”

TOMORROW

Cleaning out some storage and forgot I had these

I’ve been critical of poor preaching recently so here’s an example of excellent preaching. If you’ve had enough of celebrity preachers, “muscular Christianity,” or helpful, positive advice then maybe give it a shot. FYI, the pastor has a slight stutter on occasion. open.spotify.com/episode/1y6B...