“the first ordination for all Christians happens in baptism.”
New Life in an Old Order: On the Diaconate by Win Mott
“The Tradition of Eucharistic celebration is, as John Zizioulas points out, the concelebration of the whole community, each individual with a part.”
New Life in an Old Order: On the Diaconate by Win Mott
“But there’s a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren’t people: the billionaires to whom nearly everyone isn’t a real person. These solipsists see chatbots as being equivalent (or even superior) to humans, because they don’t think most humans are fully people, either:”
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion by pluralistic.net
Fathers, don’t ever bring him along when you spend time with your friends. He never needs to hear adults discussing marriage, work, faith, politics, failure, sacrifice, or responsibility. Again, if you’re in a church, do not ever bring the teenage boys on any men’s treats. Ever."
How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women by Anthony B. Bradley
“Parents, make sure he is never forced to engage in mature conversations about life and the world with people your age or older. Do whatever you can to keep him with his peers as much as possible. If you attend church, for example, make sure he is deeply involved in youth ministry, but never allow him to participate in the men’s ministry in any way.
How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women by Anthony B. Bradley
“Fürs Fahrrad brauchen wir aber gar keine Werbung. Radfahren macht allen Menschen Spaß. Sie brauchen dazu lediglich Platz und ein sicheres Umfeld.”
Verkehrsexperte Hermann Knoflacher “Der Autofahrer ist absolut asozial” by Ronja Mößbauer
“Radfahrern wird bewusst, wie furchtbar die Welt durch das Auto wird. Und sie beginnen, ihren Lebensraum, den Lebensraum ihrer Kinder und auch die Natur zu verteidigen.”
Verkehrsexperte Hermann Knoflacher “Der Autofahrer ist absolut asozial” by Ronja Mößbauer
“the smartphone had become a virtual “social passport,” necessary to navigate large swaths of even the offline world.”
Tech Policy’s Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
“Ein Virus manipuliert die Zelle… Das Gleiche passiert auch mit der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Diese plant und baut nicht mehr Städte für Menschen, sondern für das Auto.”
Verkehrsexperte Hermann Knoflacher “Der Autofahrer ist absolut asozial” by Ronja Mößbauer
Finished reading: Everything Is Never Enough by Bobby Jamieson 📚
“Prudence is the only principle that can guide us in the right use of technology: a willingness to weigh every proposed innovation and transformation carefully against what we know of human nature, and a recognition that our technologies will in fact shape us and change us.”
Tech Policy’s Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
“The deficit in trinitarian faith that afflicts American evangelicalism is no small thing. It results in preaching that pictures Jesus as the way to God, while hardly noticing that Jesus is God already with us, giving us not only salvation but God himself in his own flesh.”
William Lane Craig and Evangelicalism’s Trinitarian Deficit by Phillip Cary
“Ironically, this unthinking repetition confirms one of Socrates’s greatest fears: that a society blessed with the written word would content itself with thoughtlessly regurgitating facts divorced from context and excuse itself from the trouble of wrestling with living ideas.”
Tech Policy’s Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
165 miles in August! It’s been so, so great getting back on the bike. Exercise, commute, and fun all at the same time. 🚲
“So far this year, three times as many people have died by cars in Davidson County as by gunshot wounds.”
Blindspot: How Nashville Addresses Death and Design on City Roads by Eli Motycka
“That therefore in these both curious and unhappy differences, which have for so many hundred years, in different times and places, exercised the Church of Christ, we will, that all further curious search be laid aside, and these disputes shut up in God’s promises, as they be generally set forth to us in the Holy Scriptures, and the general meaning of the Articles of the Church of England according to them.”
The King’s Declaration by hanover.edu
“what I hate the most about right on red is the explicit sanction it gives drivers, myself among them, to use their own judgment. It is a zone of permitted lawlessness relying on the ability and morality of the average driver.”
Every Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Further by 00 AM EDT
“Public transit, on the other hand, is a proven technology that, among other things, strengthens the social contract while giving everyone the ability to move around a city.”
‘Every Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Further’ ⇥ defector.com by Nick Heer
That was a wild game! From depressed, defeat, to a one point lead in the last few minutes.
Currently reading: Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond by Matthew Loftus 📚
“virtue is the habit of doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons.”
The Catholic Gentleman by Sam Guzman, Dale Ahlquist
“holiness isn’t for a select few; it is for everyone.”
The Catholic Gentleman by Sam Guzman, Dale Ahlquist
It’s interesting watching the traffic on Demonbreun during lunch. At any given time there are more people on the narrow sidewalks and bike lanes than in the cars. And yet, the cars take up 90% of the space and require everyone else to wait on them to cross the street and move about.
Finished reading: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare 📚
“He assumes that we know what people want because they buy it, and we know that they buy it because they want it.”
No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon by Henry Farrell