One of my favorite openings to a novel

It’s an animal fantasy novel with a great basset hound for one of the main characters.

Have you read Book of the Dun Cow by chance?

Particularly in its argument—sadly, more relevant than ever—that culture war concerns are ultimately used as a smokescreen to accomplish an economic agenda of corporate greed.

I am reading Thomas Frank’s 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘴 for the first time and—as someone who grew up in rural Kansas—I have to say—𝙒𝙤𝙬! This book is fully living up to its reputation.

new trinity illustration or no?

Joshua 8:28 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.

Thanks to a random Instagram influencer, I now have a new favourite Bible verse.

Well that’s gross

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

Social media post “daylight is saved but is it baptized?”

Baptized as an infant actually I believe

I similarly haven’t seen in a long time. Watched it after seeing Tree of Life and being captivated by Malick

What r ur feelings about Thin Red Line?

Congrats on reaching this point!

One one my “favorite” (weird word maybe) passages in Jeremiah. Look forward to reading someday!

That’s 2009 and the most recent I can think of…

Scott Hahn had significant discussion in his book on Covenant

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Our 8yo at the breakfast table this morning: “why don’t we all share how we hope to improve ourselves in the new year.”

So this is the new year eh.

That video clip making the rounds of “I can’t imagine raising a newborn without Ch*tGPT”…on one level this is just a snake oil salesman selling his “miracle” product (shame on Fallon, nbc), but on another, a deeply worrying further step in what CS Lewis called the Abolition of Man (=humanity).

Church this Sunday is going to be OFF THE HOOK. Get to talk about Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Really appreciated this sermon. Thanks for sharing and may God continue to bless your ministry of the Word.

Excited to subscribe!

Would love to know what texts you use when you teach WR. (Maybe you’ve already shared somewhere)

Remembering Walter Brueggemann Reflecting on the life and legacy of Walter Brueggemann, a towering figure in Old Testament scholarship known for his prolific and impactful literary contributions.

brief tribute to walter brueggemann by brent strawn for @fortresspress.bsky.social

Quite a line

Jer 29:11

Congrats!

• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine