Tag: metamodernism
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Rain and the Spirit
I really love the rain. People think that I’m deranged, but there’s no better day in my mind than a cold, dreary, slow rain/misty kind of day. You can keep your sun and your sandy beaches, and even your snowstorms. I like a good monsoon. It’s enough of a compulsion that many nights when I…
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Sketches
As our staff is reading through the Bible in a Year, I ran across a Psalm I’ve read several times before: Psalm 136. If you’re not familiar, it’s the psalm that has “…for his steadfast love endures forever” in every verse. I’d like to insert here some kind of super-spiritual statement about how I felt…
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“Six Days on the Bottom of the Ocean”
One of my favorite bands is an Austin-based group called Explosions in the Sky. I first saw them at Austin City Limits back in 2006, and their music has been a part of my study playlists ever since. Explosions in the Sky has a song called “Six Days on the Bottom of the Ocean.” It…
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Bolting from the Kids’ Choir
A few weeks ago, the Kids’ Choir sang at our church. As usual it was a wonderful group of sweet kids singing their hearts out. Those days in church are always good ones! But this time was a bit different. At a point in the song, one of the children up at the front bolted…
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Dark Ages
Imagine living in a time where: Nation states are weakened and radically divided along tribal lines. There are many new works of engineering that boggle the mind, but the understanding of their workings grows less and less. There are diseases that seem unstoppable, changing borders and devastating communities. The world is in the grip of…
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ICYMI
I’ve been writing on this blog for about a year, and as a result have racked up a pretty substantial amount of articles and posts (at present over 100). As many of you didn’t learn about the site until the past few months, I figured it would be a good time to do a retrospective…
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I’ve been asked a few times lately about the apparent growth in the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. This topic is growing in the vision of the current generation as it longs to discover authenticity in all things, but especially in faith. In a metamodern world that creates “truths” and then inflicts them upon others,…
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We ruined deliveries
I remember as a kid the thrill when we would get a delivery to the house. It didn’t happen often, so when there was a box on our porch we were filled with wonder. We wondered that someone would take the effort to send us something! Today as I was driving up to our house,…
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No Kings
[The above photo is Santa Anna’s sword in the new museum at the Alamo. Super cool.] Recently King Charles III came and spoke in Washington DC. At this engagement, the result of his speech was standing ovation in bi-partisan solidarity. Republicans, Democrats, etc., they were standing and applauding a literal monarch. I’m not the first…
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Free Cars on Facebook Marketplace
Not sure if you’ve seen it, but on Facebook Marketplace there are often cars that are listed for free. It cracks me up, because they are clearly a scam. And yet the phishers and the scammers keep it up. (Note: the car in above picture is not one of those…it was a very nice car!)…
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And yet, and yet... 