The Faith of Jesus Does my salvation depend on my faith?

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Dan Snyder sold the Washington Commanders in July 2023. This year they are going to the NFC Championship.

Perhaps a similar strategy could work for the Dallas Cowboys?

The Scope of New Creation One died for all, therefore all have died

What is the scope of new creation? Who is included? Is anyone excluded?
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How to Read Simone Weil, Part 1: The Mystic / Eric O. Springsted

This is excellent.

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Chart illustrating how different ways to divide 50 people into five districts can lead to different election outcomes.

How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart
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Dallas.

A pic of you from a different era. Here’s mine:

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

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Definition of “kakistocracy” as a government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.

A few pictures I took in Fort Worth recently.

I’m glad to be here and am loving this app so far! If you like any of the following, let’s connect:
* progressive theology
* music
* cigars
* whiskey
* photography

This is helpful!

There is community in being ridiculous together sometimes.

Last night I dreamed I was driving on a very dark road, so dark that the sky above was a sea of stars and the Leonids were racing through the sky and I remembered again to wonder.

“…do not destroy a poem trying to make it clear.” - Russell Atkins

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I miss the community and hope to find my way back.

As someone who loves Greco-Roman root words, I’m pleased to see kakistocracy is gaining new visibility, but displeased it’s so appropriate for our times.

“We experience the power of hope when we have to fight against the apathy of our soul. We sense that it is keeping us alive if, when the outlook is somber, we say ‘nevertheless’, and dare life.” - Jürgen Moltmann, “A Meditation on Hope”

One of his more lovely sentences. And he has a few.

I found every meditation to be compelling.

"The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby accept incoherence as profundity, or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety." - David Bentley Hart

I just started Day Four. So good.