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Currently reading: The Lost Metal: A Mistborn Novel (Mistborn, 7) by Brandon Sanderson 📚
”What’s the point of all this if people can’t change.” - Wax
You know you are from Michigan when 45° feels wonderfully warm and you choose to sit outside enjoying a good pipe in the sun!
I started reading: Fight Like Jesus by Jason Porterfield 📚
A friend is hosting a weekly discussion of this text. I can’t attend but, I am reading alongside. I think I will share some thoughts throughout Lent from this little book.
Tomorrow at Tap Room we are discussing nationalism, not just the Christian variant. This description of Christian nationalism by Tom Wright hits the nail on the head.
Watched: Shrinking S3E3, D-Day 🍿
“You can get through this on your own. But remember this, you don’t have to.” ~ Paul
This show…
Dang…
The podcast picked up a couple listens. It’s a start.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
- Frederick Douglass
I keep seeing people clamoring for a social media that is not owned and controlled by big tech. I beg you, please consider micro.blog as that alternative. Yes, membership costs a little. But it’s well worth it. I’d be happy to tell you my experience.
Finished reading: Humanism from the Heart by Steve Ghikadis, B.A., BEd 📚
This was a really enjoyable memoir. The author, an atheist-humanist is winsome, kind, and generous.
It’s joy inducing to see all the baseball pictures in my feed.
This work is not about tweaking personalities or winning power struggles. It is about creating the conditions for deep change. And that begins with fostering enough safety for courage to grow. It is about staying present long enough for shame to loosen its grip.
- Creating the Conditions for Deep Change by Chuck DeGroat
The new full screen posting interface from @manton and micro.blog is so nice!