Happiness isn’t having life give us what we want. Life will hurt us in thousand ways, large and small. Happiness is knowing how to survive the storm and walk out with a smile on our face…

I was just thinking how nice Twitter was back in the day …before corporations, political parties, and a billionaire all decided to manipulate it for their own ends. It felt like a public square back then. The place you went to discuss and meet anybody in the digital world, the place where you found your particular tribe of misfits. I made so many friends on that app back then! It felt like it was ours and we could never lose it. Now it’s an emotionally vacuous space full of cynical con men, shrill politics, and viral stupidity. No one really lives there anymore. They just go to gape at the ghastly spectacle. NOSTR really feels different. It isn’t a public square yet, but it really can become one, because this time it doesn’t just feel like ours. It is ours.

Communicating the incommunicable

Anyone claiming to pronounce a “Christian response” to violence and tragedy that is not grounded in our Savior’s command to “love your enemies” needs to spend less time pontificating on social media and more time meditating on Jesus, who loved us even though we were his enemies…