If the rapture doesn’t happen today, you can always buy this book tomorrow…

When the sole reason you trim the shrub is to find the missing baseball

I asked my wife if she wanted to watch the new season of The Chosen now on Prime or wait until we can watch it ad-free on the app. She said she’d like to wait because “I prefer Jesus without the commercials.” And that feels like an entire word for American evangelicalism.

Watching a documentary on the history of film that paused over the relationship between the screen and the demands of political loyalty.

Playing catch at sunset. Grateful for daily gifts.

This is the kind of postgame testimony I love #GuardsBall

Watching Akira Kurosawa‘s High and Low for the first time. I honestly thought it was going to be a movie about a doctrinaire shoe manufacturer.

My 18 year olds are particularly affected by Charlie Kirk’s murder and all I can say to them is “We must fight with ideas and words, not guns and bullets.”

I need all of these in this stunned moment

What a horrific act of violence. God help us.

In an abusive system there is no safe place, no binding of wounds or healing for a broken heart. Power is used in God’s name to protect the system rather than the victim. Power is used to oppress and protect the manmade structure rather than the people they are called to lead.

According to my teenagers, my newfound love of doing puzzles is the most recent evidence that I am OLD. I own it. *Bonus: $2 at the library book sale

This week I heard for the first time a line that makes so much sense: “When you’re looking at everything through rose-colored glasses, red flags are invisible.”

Just a dude taking a nap

“Pray that the evangelical support he will care about most is that of the evangel, the message of first importance: “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised…and that he appeared” (1 Cor. 15:3-5).” open.substack.com/pub/revchris...

TIL that the first national legislative body in the world to give women the right to vote in a general election was, curiously, the Isle of Man.

Do they call slanted fonts Italicized because of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Visited my favorite art gallery last night…

In the mountains with regal eagles… 1/2

The rain is falling The skies are dark But hope lies ahead

Me looking for news about Steven Kwan minutes after the trade deadline passes. #GuardsBall @cleguardians.com

Going to watch this movie for the first time and the treasure better not be the friends they made along the way.

R.I.P. The 80s 😥

Anyone else have a book stack that looks like this? Or do you finish the book you started before you begin another one?

Can you guess what this is a picture of?

Some 900-year-old wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux

Evening in NYC

Look what was waiting for me when I got home! Excited to read @karenswallowprior.bsky.social’s new book. (When you get yours, be sure to read p. 56!)

One of the ladies in our widows’ support group wore this today. It’s 100% true.

Can we develop some weighted system for who gets a say on immigration in our country? My ancestors have been here since the late 1600s and I am all about immigration reform. But most the people showing such cruelty toward immigrants seem to be 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants themselves.

What a thrilling and fun ending to the #AllStarGame!

I am disabled. I am a veteran. I am a US citizen. But I did not have my car window smashed, pepper sprayed and being held in an undisclosed location by our government. abc7.com/post/disable...

I just finished reading a book on the Washington Senators' 1924 season that ended in an improbable and dramatic World Series victory. Here are my favorite old-timey ballplayer names: - Sloppy Thurston - By Speece - Urban Shocker - Bibb Falk - Maurice Archdeacon - Irish Meusel - Muddy Ruel

Friday fun: old SCTV sketch of Michael McDonald (Rick Moranis) racing in to sing backup on Ride Like the Wind youtu.be/BKw6jZV0vag?...

Homeland Security meme nudges 'Painter of Light' Thomas Kinkade into dark territory—my newest post at @rns.org: religionnews.com/2025/07/10/h...

Just finished listening to this pod…it’s fantastic! I’ve been listening to Jeff’s pod over the 20 years he’s hosted Q&As and it’s well worth subscribing.

I was grateful to be part of this article and for the excellent work @peter-wehner.bsky.social did on it.

Evangelicals in America "have mostly turned their eyes away from what is happening on the African continent" since Trump slashed PEPFAR, Peter Wehner writes. "They have other things to do. They have culture wars to fight":

Hydrangeas from the back yard #PauseForBeauty

My wife and I watched Roman Holiday and she was delighted to find a posh, regal way to tell me to scram when I’m bothering her.

Every time I drive from our house to the church building I pass a neighborhood pool, and recently they erected a historical marker to share its significance. This makes me grateful for those who take action for justice. Because if they didn’t, my family wouldn’t be allowed at this pool.

5 years ago, after doing some genealogy work where I discovered enslavement in my family’s past, I wrote this reflection on the Declaration of Independence that shaped the destiny of our nation and the wills that shaped the destiny of enslaved persons. therodandstaff.com/2020/12/04/o...

A beach read that wades into deeper waters… open.substack.com/pub/revchris...

Americans can debate immigration and economic policy. But for those of us who are part of the kingdom of God, let us never insinuate that cruel, dehumanizing, disdainful treatment of image bearers—inside or outside the womb, citizens or “illegal,” rich or poor—has anything to do with Jesus.

My daughter found this on the beach and the breaking of the external shell to reveal what’s on the inside feels like a whole lot to ponder.

When you don’t see your college friends again for 11 years (and you each had a kiddo in utero the last time)

Finally found the chart that accurately represents what it looks like when I try to dance.

We watched quite the display of power and beauty over the creek last night (video in a separate post).

🎶Then sings my soul…🎶 [Filmed last night over the creek at Pawleys Island]