Ready for the week to be over

“It is time to recognize that white American Evangelicalism is simply so many whitewashed tombs. Good looking doctrine, pretty people, nice worship music, “reasonable” worldviews, and in the end the racism is just there rotting and festering underneath the surface.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

Today was about enjoying the sun on bare arms

“At some point you have to realize you are dealing with people who simply do not wish to live in good faith with others that disagree with them. I’ve come to believe the energy addressing the same issues AGAIN… is better spent doing practically anything else.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

I'm talking about friends these days. And loneliness. This watercolour print is called Friends Matter. Even animal ones. Look: we matter, and we matter to each other. Love is what connects us. To ourselves. To each other. To nature. To the animals. To the earth. Friends matter! You matter to me.

Warm enough for only two layers!

“I would suggest that they in fact, do not want to “save” any kind of democracy but are arguing for a biologically natalist, nationalistic hierarchy where white, heterosexual parents with biological children are prioritized” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

When mid 30s is now “warm”

“This leads me back to Lewis. He states that the chivalrous knight is a matter of art not science. Again, the true knight is, “…not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

I just couldn’t do the indoor cycle again. So I had to get it in on the warmest day this week. It’s in the 20s not including windchill

“We have seen the character of MAGA, and it is rotten to the core. The cult has proven that there is no loyalty to anything but itself and the promotion of its own power over everything else. We thought it was just Trump, we now know it is not.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

The sleeping giant that is America is waking and MAGA has no idea what it has unleashed

“So much of conservative culture is simply repeating untrue things as if they are true to affirm a cultural norm that doesn’t really have to deal with the “truth”.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

Warmest day this week

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

“Demanding unilateral submission isn’t appealing to a kind of consistency, rather it is demanding an inconsistency from the subjected, that they approve of righteousness and sin at the same time towards the same authority.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

Had to get a run in while it’s the warmest day for the next week. It’s 37.

“a part of what’s going on is they really believe their own propaganda. This is what happens in late-stage cults and that is the “leaders” especially become detached from reality. This appears doubly so when the leader becomes delusional.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

1/ New Episode! This week @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social talk with veteran and academic @jaymallow.bsky.social about democratic transactional authority. Have a listen as we discuss the issue of authority in light of current events and abuses.

I’m on a Podcast! Thanks to Ben and Bon for having me on. If you’ve ever wondered what I sound like here you go. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Some days you do 8. Some days you can only do 4. It’s about continuing to do.

More. Of. This.

Afternoon run and in shorts definitely worth taking off work early

“But we’re not N@zis”

I have boots that would retail for over $700 now. Guess I’m “too rich” for the Post now

Ending 2025 strong wearing one of my Christmas presents (the overshirt)

How I’m walking out of 2025

This is the correct answer

“It is chilling that too many “pastors” and people who claim to lead churches do not understand what assault or consent is legally. It is terrifying that many don’t even have an ideological imagination for anyone to be a victim.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

I hadn’t planned to run today but the weather broke and I had to get this in before it drops 50 DEGREES in the next FOUR HOURS

Merry Christmas from Kansas everyone (it’s still flat)

“Ruth isn’t just a story that is real with its hopes, losses, despair, kindness and redemption. The story of this small imperfect family points ahead in so many ways. This is because God decides to redeem through the broken.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

7 miles in Kansas (it’s flat)

He’s just being blatantly racist cause he’s playing to the worst

“What you have in Hannah and Mary’s songs and their lives is a microcosm of the barren places made fruitful, of the lowly being exalted, of the hopeless given hope, of the “proud” in their accusations being cast down. “ open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

Being able to run in shorts > a white Christmas

“Let me say this as clearly as I can, when your first question is about the ability to reject Nazism, antisemitism, and racism we are WAY past the point where “leaders” should have stepped in.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

It’s supposed to be the warmest day this week. It’s not even in the 40s

“But what was even more important to our forefathers was that decency and values beat pragmatism every time. Holding everyone, even an executive to a standard of law made for a better society, even if it meant change happened slowly if at all.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

Had to get it in on the warmest day this week. It’s 34 degrees

In an administration of punchable faces Hassett’s lying smirk is insufferable

“When the obvious “fruit” of an ideology or even “theology” is immaturity, falseness, and quite frankly stupidity we need to have the courage to say there is nothing valuable from it.” open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

Thankful for a long run (after being sick last week). May you celebrate the day in your way too

@jaymallow.bsky.social never shares his newsletter here so I will! This is a perceptive take on why evangelicals "treat underage persons (particularly women) like adults (especially when it comes to sex)." The ideology goes deep. substack.com/@jaymallow/n...

Woke up with a sore throat and tight chest so this was rough. But the new ROKA glasses are great for running

One last ride in the 80s for the year 😢

I’m proud that I layered up and still did my Sunday afternoon walk with it being 35 degrees outside. Also ITS DARK AT 4:30!!! 😡

Just when you think they couldn’t look more foolish they also fail at being evil

Enjoying a beautiful day before it drops to the MID 30s this weekend!!!