I will gladly take the mark of the beast if it puts an end to two factor authentication.

Case #147 why Christian Nationalism is an empty term with less than zero explanatory value. I have yet to find a conversation where the CN framing generates more light than heat.

My final papers were so trash Canvas turned itself off

My serpent handling piece got its first citation!!!

How it feels trudging through spring semester with no football to watch

I’m going to start a new reality competition show called ‘Get Right with God.’ On it several contestants have the chance to, you guessed it…

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

He get’s a lot of flack for the “sloppy wet kiss” line, but John Mark McMillan has put out some of the best indie worship music of the last decade. Everything from Borderlands onward is absolutely indispensable for my faith.

“Christian Nationalism” as a term has stigmatized a lot and explained very little. I’m ready to see it retired so we can more closely examine the four or five discrete theopolitical it has tried to name.

I know the Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga when I see him!

Legendary McKay’s pull

When my advisor asks me how do many books on aliens and UFOs got in my exam lists…

Just corrected the spelling of Bultmann's first name on the Wikipedia page for dymythologization.

Building my exam lists right now. I'm particularly excited about one we are caling "enchantment, disenchantment, and secularization."

Jack Reacher spinoff where he beats up annoying hoa members. I'd never miss an episode.

Secular people who are under the illusion that they have left secularism are some of our most unpredictable religious and political actors. Studying them is difficult because scholars tend to treat them with either too much cynicism or too much deference.

I am a machine that turns chicken nuggets into footnotes.

Extremely funny to me how much of the 2000s post liberal project concluded in some version of “ Christian small liberal arts college, but with elite signifiers.”

I try to ride MARTA when I can because it saves money and approximates the dealing of riding Shai Hulud across the sands of Arrakis.

me and the real ones heading to the theater on december 18

Excellent essay by Matthew McManus pitting Charles Taylor against the postliberals. Given how many postliberals like to cite Taylor as an ally, this deserves a wide reading. www.illiberalism.org/charles-tayl...

Excellent example of teleporting across the is/ought distinction between questions.

I feel like short form media has caused our standards for comedic impressions to go way down.

It’s always funny to watch mainstream news outlets totally forget the mainline has ever existed when someone like Talerico runs. The coverage is like “what mutant is this?”

These ones she did with Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest are all must watch movies!

I guess I have a substack now. Really resisted this for the longest time, but I need a more effective place to respond to critics and explain my ideas. open.substack.com/pub/dwcongdon

Bear the hard NYT Sudoku this morning

We need to get Gen Z to read great books by explaining that no book is more difficult than Hollow Knight.

I am posting this a bit late, but Pneuma recently published a series of essays from esteemed colleagues and myself about Nimi Wariboko's book "The Pentecostal Hypothesis" brill.com/view/journal...

Finally submitted that article 🤞

RMDB: read more dad books

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Stranger Things filming sites tour!

The College Football Playoff is following The Golden Path.

Georgia Tech QB Haynes King handshakes the Pop-tarts after the coin toss

One of the most important books I’ve read tbh

Knowing your fellow humans are roasting eternally does make it pretty hard to have a Merry Christmas!

LARRY NORMAM NEEDLE DROP IN WAKE UP DEAD MAN! I REPEAT LARRY NORMAN NEEDLE DROP IN WAKE UP DEAD MAN!

Oh it’s gonna be my year

My colleague is curating a collection of CCM magazines and adding them to the Internet Archive and I am very excited about it. Here's a fun pic of Relient K from 2004 archive.org/details/ccmm...

every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"

My dad says at him and mom's wedding reception he was so overwhelmed that as they were going aroud taking pictures with everyone he was unknowingly eating off of other people's plates.

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Yall green bean casserole haters just haven’t ever tried mine. I was like you once, an unbeliever. This recipe comes from an old church lady, it’s like ancient scripture.

Working on side dishes, Jack and Coke in hand, Terminator 2 is on TV… we gonna be alright.

A movie that takes place where you’re from

EB White showing up to write heartwarming kids books, correct your grammar, and fight fascism.

Tolle lege libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...

CT has always been ideological, but as someone who works in a lot of evangelical history, I have a vested interest in its health. There are things only CT covers that must be recorded. Having a clown like this at the helm hurts everyone.