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.
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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!
Currently reading: The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Starting a new stand alone tonight. The Cosmere is just so addictive!
Finished reading: The Will of the Many by James Islington 📚
This book read like Red Rising meets Mistborn meets Ancient Rome. I really enjoy the political intrigue that is building.
Currently reading: The Lost Metal: A Mistborn Novel (Mistborn, 7) by Brandon Sanderson 📚
I am excited for the final installment of the Wax and Wayne series.
Finished reading: The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel (Mistborn, 6) by Brandon Sanderson 📚
These Wax and Wayne books are an absolute blast. The number of times that I laugh out loud is ridiculous.
I’m thankful for the collegial and kind debate that has been happening at the 187th Stated Meeting of the Midwest Presbytery. It turns out that it is possible to disagree well.
“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its apologia for the weak. – I feel that Christianity is rather doing too little in showing these points than doing too much. Christianity has adjusted itself much too easily to the worship of power. It should give much more offence, more shock to the world, than it is doing. Christianity should take a much more definite stand for the weak than to consider the potential moral right of the strong.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from a sermon on 2 Cor. 12:9
This made me laugh too hard…
Spiritual fitness isn’t about having all the answers.
It’s about forming a faith that can actually carry you.
🎧 New episode of The Pastor Next Door: What Is Spiritual Fitness?
In the Kingdom, success isn’t the “Triple Bs”—Butts, Bucks, and Buildings. Jesus cares more about integrity than influence. From the “little strength” of Philadelphia to the comfort of Laodicea, the call is simple: stay faithful.
Full episode: Revelation 3 - The Second Four Churches 🎧