“In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.” - Marshall McLuhan
One of the life’s greatest joys is the discovery of kindred minds: those who share your worldview and who have gone ahead and written on topics that you could would have been interesting in trying a hand at writing and doing it far better than you could have ever dreamed.
The resulting sense of camaraderie, humility, respect (especially when the work was written by someone from ages past), and gratitude is one of the most profoundly spiritual experiences I’ve ever had.
I’d put O’Donovan there. Lewis too. Wendell Berry. Chesterton. Doug Wilson.
Whose work has similarly impacted you?
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” - Werner Heisenberg, 1932 Nobel laureate and father of quantum mechanics
“…as government is beginning to frankly break down on a number of its core responsibilities, we ought to be thinking in terms of developing alternative institutions, resilient communities, resilient families (all anchored in churches by the way), to see to it that we can effectively carry out our dominion mandate..." - Dr. Glenn Sunshine at #TGFB24
“The continual voice which tells you that your best actions are secretly filled with subtle self-regard, and your best prayers still wholly egocentric—must for the most part be simply disregarded—as one disregards the impulse to keep on looking under the bandage to see whether the cut is healing. If you are always fidgeting with the bandage, it never will.
A text you should keep much in mind is I John iii, 20: “If our heart condemns us God is greater than our heart.” I sometimes pray “Lord give me no more and no less self-knowledge than I can at this moment make a good use of.
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted–i.e. keep on fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station, asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone. You are in the right way. Walk—don’t keep on looking at it.”
—C.S. Lewis in a letter to a man struggling with “excessive selfness” (the man’s own words). Also called “morbid introspection” or perhaps even scrupulosity.
Rudy Giuliani’s career arc should put the fear of God into @nayibbukele.
Christians shouldn’t confuse a #Bitcoin’s price with its value for the same reason they shouldn’t confuse a #Bible’s price with its value.
