Union with #God is not something that needs to be acquired but realized.

—Martin Laird

$400 Bibles? Luxurious Scripture Is on the Rise.

Bible sales in the US are booming, and I looked at one corner of that market: premium Bibles made from high-quality materials and meant to last. One publisher calls them an example of the “a push away from instant, artificial, blue-light culture." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

Turn the Lights Back On Witnessing the cruel effects of the U.S. oil blockade against Cuba.

I don’t know what to say anymore. Tearful this morning after reading what the U.S. has done to the sick and ill in Cuba: “Late last night, a report came in that patients on ventilators at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital have died.” Trump is running an imperialist necropolitical regime.

Best Catholic or Orthodox book on New Creation (eschatology)??

Powerful stuff from our students:

"AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

It’s been so warm that I might actually go to the beach today on my day off, but I can’t decide which one to go to. California problems lol

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Bible study night. Tonight we conclude our four week study of Malachi.

Get yourself a hobby that doesn’t require a screen!

(I’ve read versions of this and agree with them)

I still don’t get why there are so many poetic or theologically flowery responses to this. The good news that began with Jesus and continued to work its way out through the development of later Christian doctrine is pretty simple: “The time is fulfilled; the Kingdom of God is at hand.”

White cat asleep on a couch, resting his head against a pizza patterned blanket.

My boy loves his pizza blanket 😂

Been back at the Catholic Church for almost four years now. Time flies!

It is wam tonight. About to take a cold shower before I go to bed 😅

Woah! I got five likes the other day here 🤯

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The demise of AI was prophesied long ago.

Go and do likewise.

Ten more teaching days until Spring Break for me 😅

Mar 16 Scripture
Isaiah's prophecy, "I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth" (Is 65:17) is the only hope we have. The way things are, and the way the world is being directed, we need God's intervention. In the Gospel, Jesus intervened merely by his word (Jn 4:43-54). Dear God, speak again!

Happy birthday to your boy! 🎂

There is no clean cut dogmatic answer to this, but the gospel is the saving story of Jesus Christ as the fulfillment and climax of the story of Israel.

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What makes this edition so special?

“In the gospels, we see what is required if we are to be followers .. of Jesus. Following Jesus requires repentance, turning away from the familiar to … discipleship. … We are not Christians because of what we believe but because we obey the call of Jesus: ‘Come, follow me.’”

—Stanley Hauerwas

You honestly can't do better than this. Listen to Barth (with his very labored speaking and heavily Swiss accent) explain that theology "is concerned with Immanuel, God with us! Having this God for its object, it can be nothing else but the most thankful and happy science!"

Karl Barth – Evangelical Theology Lecture 1: A Happy Science (April 23, 1962 – Chicago) YouTube video by Theologische Existenz heute!

"But the God who is the object of evangelical theology is just as lowly as he is exalted. He is exalted precisely in his lowliness. [...] In this way, what God wills for man is a helpful, healing, and uplifting work, and what he does with him brings peace and joy." – Barth, ET

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I can definitely follow your train of thought. I just knew you could point me to a longer treatment of the idea of judgement as grace. Thanks, Keanu.

Afraid to ask, but do you know of a good book that follows this line of argumentation?

Taking tomorrow off. I don’t feel ready for the week ahead.