“Within recent memory, people who made software and hardware understood their job was to serve their customer. It was to identify a need, and then fill it. But at some point following the financial crisis, would-be entrepreneurs got it into their heads that their job was to invent the future, and consumers’ job was to go along with that invented future.”

Silicon Valley Has Forgotten What Normal People Want by Elizabeth Lopatto

“It may feel unfair to have to negotiate an ancient theological theory designed to make war harder. But subjecting efficiency, lethality, and even victory to higher principles is precisely its purpose. It reminds us that even—especially—in wartime, God and God alone is our judge.”

Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East

‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?” Then they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil upon them’ ”

(2 Chronicles 7:21–22, RSV)

“Masculinity means harnessing the natural power a man possesses and using it for the good of others around him.”

Man Up! by Jeffrey Hemmer

I’m piloting Ignatius Press’s Catholic Study Bible this week. So far, it’s an improvement over my Oxford Study Bible.

The impact of your family with kids attending a small church is bigger than you think. Kids change the entire vibe and encourage visitors with kids to stay. It’s a sacrifice with a huge impact for the Kingdom!

“Though finding delight and joy in your career isn’t a bad idea, it becomes problematic when we believe it is the only suitable option.”

Why Avocations Matter by Brianna Lambert

If Rome found a way to receive the 1662/1928 Mass unaltered and do some private conditional “ordinations”, I think they’d see an explosion of Ordinariate parishes in the English-speaking world.

Finished reading: The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon 📚 — Without question one of the best books I’ve ever read. I’ll read it again and again. So good.

We’re cancelling Netflix. We realized it almost never had what we actually wanted and, for the price, we could buy a Blu-ray or two each month.

“Such is my family’s life, chaotic and filled with activities, work and play, books and books and yet more books. And people, God’s image-bearers, dwelling with each other in community and conversation, and sometimes even in harmony.”

A Day in the Life of a Screen-Free Child by Nadya Williams

So, I’m pretty sure if you text me to tell me this, then I actually haven’t “opted out.”

“Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than it is useful.”

The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

“To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need forever is taste.”

The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

“Take away our fear of fat, and make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron’s beard. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings, and rice in a thousand variations. Above all, give us grace to live as true men-to fast till we come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine gratefully on all that comes to hand. Drive far from us, 0 Most Bountiful, all creatures of air and darkness; cast out the demons that possess us; deliver us from the fear of calories and the bondage of nutrition; and set us free once more in our own land, where we shall serve thee as thou hast blessed us-with the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Amen.”

The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! ✝️🪨🌈⛪️