We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Duh. It’s OBVIOUSLY not a golden calf in Exod 32 or 1 Kgs 13. It’s much more analogous to Daniel 3

Thinking this morning about how at my first full time university, our LMS was an install of moodle shaped by an IT dept (and @shorterpearson.com ) to be what we needed. I think we’d be better off with that, instead of one, for profit , one size fits all LMS and tell profs to adapt.

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

This is the actual last step in the writing process

We have friends everywhere.

My son had a Star Wars celebration yesterday and invited several of his friends over. One is transitioning and I could tell was uncomfortable when I walked in from church in my “work” clothes (suit and tie).

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

A dear friend and former student (thanks to Hannah Curtis) invited me on her podcast to talk about my ministry. She has long been a fan, and it's always nice to hang out with people that think you're awesome...it's good for the spirit. open.substack.com/pub/laurengr...

okay, when you’ve lost the former director of Mossad, maybe it’s well past time to rethink your policy decisions

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

While visiting my mom today, the song playing over the speakers in the common area of this MEMORY CARE FACILITY was, "Forget You," by CeeLo Green. I can’t figure if that’s bad taste or right on the nose.

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

I am proud to announce that Good Faith Media has agreed to publish my next book: “Speaking of Israel and Palestine: A Primer for American Christians.” It has only just entered the queue for publication so it will be a bit before it’s out. Watch this space.

In the absence of external victories or obvious progress, often broad coalition groups look for internal victories, which is how those groups break up and lose ground.

Me reading The Art of War: this was considered revolutionary? Surely armies knew to have enough supplies and food before going to war! Me today: oh.

Sure. Times are tough. But we will be able to tell our grandchildren that we were alive when “pope-splaining” was invented.

Someone just told me that The Princess Bride is "overrated" and long story short it's perfectly acceptable to remove toxic people from your life.

Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.

I hope that the return of Integrity is a trend that continues.

“Italian Beef” is a Temu Cheesesteak

There is no McTry.

My escape from [wildly gestures at everything] is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. I’m approaching the end again, and it’s so beautiful how PTerry left Discworld better than he found it. Goblins have rights. Dwarves have gender. Humans have (some) understanding. It’s a model that gives me hope.

@merriam-webster.com Is there a word that is an antonym for "onomatopoeia?" I need a word to describe words that do NOT sound like their meaning, like "pulchritude" or "bucolic"

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

Christ be with me,Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger-St Patrick

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

ah yes, stages 3 and 7 in the writing process both precede "what if I just set this whole thing on fire" stages (the imagined fires get bigger the later in the process you get)

My book is now out in Spanish translation! Thanks to Smyth & Helwys for committing to a Spanish copy! Thanks to Isra Hermosillo for his translation! Thanks to Héctor Hermosillo for writing a Foreword to the Spanish edition! a.co/d/d4QhUtJ

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

it's been seven minutes since the polls closed, Virginia

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

It’s a weird feeling to outlive colleges that at some point have turned me down for a job

I need this. Don't take this from me. I need a 2 part video series, where Sadiq Khan visits NYC, and he and Zohran Mamdani take the subway to Mets-Willets to watch a Mets game, and talk about hopeful things. Then in part 2, Zohran visits London. They take the Tube to watch Arsenal play Liverpool.

I know many of the wonderful people at Firehouse. They constantly look for ways to make this world a better place for everyone.

My article with Christian Citizen about my peacemaking trip to the West Bank. www.christiancitizen.us/articles/can...

@thegrizzlylabs.com Love GeniusScan! Unfortunately since a recent update it’s no longer including the file when I try to export to Upnote. All other services (like AppleNotes, Dropbox) all work. But not Upnote. Any thoughts?

I think I'll take a minute and offer thanks to the NFL for helping me better understand the phrase "Bread and Circuses." I'm not proud of it, but I understand it.

"Silence challenges our cultural addiction to amusement, words, music, advertising, noise, alarms and voices. Silence asks for patience and waiting. And both silence and waiting make us uncomfortable"--Adele Calhoun