@garrett-lee.bsky.social
I am the son that ran away. I am the bitter son that stayed.
That line about how being self-serving dramatic seeming a better alternative to being boring… 🔥🔥🔥
20.05.2025 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0…the only resource for Christians to resist the ideological distortions of our faith— distortions all the more tempting because to be ‘self-servingly dramatic’ seems a better alternative than to be boring-is our faith in the God to whom Christ prays on the cross.
- Hauerwas in Cross-Shattered Christ
Hesitant to stir the pot on empathy, since it’s a verbum non gratum for some, but it’s significant that Worthington’s data shows that people are unlikely, possibly unable, to forgive wrongs without feeling empathy for the perpetrator.
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This should be helpful in another 20 years when Rothfuss or Martin publish another couple sequels. www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
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Sometimes fantasy and sci-fi capture things so perfectly.
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Loving these lines from G. M. Hopkins’ poem God’s Grandeur. Beautiful reminder that the dawn always comes after the dark.
11.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0…It seeps into our souls and is a deadly enemy to spiritual formation in Christ.”
From “Renovation of the Heart”
Struck by this from Dallas Willard today:
“Western culture is, largely unbeknown to itself, a culture of rejection. This is one of the irresistible effects of what is called “modernity,” and it deeply affects the concrete forms Christian institutions take in our time.
Pontus who?
My latest from the stack.
https://open.substack.com/pub/garrettlee/p/pontus-who?r=3lw0z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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“…be accountable to everyone for everything! It is not so. In the divine economy each of us has a particular grace, gift and devotion. Finding out what that is, and learning how to be guilt-free about not doing everything else, may be part of what our Lenten journey is for.”
23.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I want to sit with this idea for a while.
It comes from one of @malcolmguite.bsky.social‘s poetic meditations in Word in the Wilderness, a lovely volume guiding my heart through Lent:
“Most of us are under pressure, external and internal, to do everything, be good at everything…
https://apple.news/AC4cghM7qT4md44eu0ZmKQA
Name it to tame it!
@stevecusswords.bsky.social
O Lord of the nations, your ways are hidden. Human history contains such suffering, so many evils. Yet great historians have acknowledged the extraordinary staying power of American democracy thus far. We look to you for leaders to emerge in our time of desperate need.
In the Name of the one King.
2) Tom Wright & Mike Bird’s book on Christian political witness is on sale on @AmazonKindle. Seems like a good time to give it a read.
amazon.com/dp/B0CMHH4C3T
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Two “random” things that came to me this morning:
1) Romans 13 in my reading. 😬
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established…
Paul goes on. Keep reading.
www.bible.com/bible/111/RO...
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From my reading this morning
“If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord— and he will repay you!”
Proverbs 19:17 NLT
How should we pray for our leaders? Psalm 72 provides a model.
open.substack.com/pub/garrettl...
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
A Morning Prayer:
O Lord, you who establish the work of my hands, go before me this day, I pray, be above me, below me and behind me, be my guide and my guardian, so that I may fulfill your good purposes for me this day. I pray this in the name of the Guardian of my soul. Amen.
What is happening to us?
It’s like those movie trailer scenes where everything is upside down.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/w...
apnews.com/article/roma...
On one hand, Iranian Christians being deported at risk of their lives.
On the other, what appears to be US government influence leading to a notoriously violent, misogynistic alleged human trafficker coming back to the US from Romania.
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Abbot and Costello "Who's administrating DOGE?" "Yes." "The guy administrating DOGE." "Who." "The guy administrating DOGE is who?" "Yes." "So Yes is the DOGE administrator?" "No, Who is the DOGE administrator." "That's what I'm asking you!”
25.02.2025 19:43 — 👍 43 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Whatever. We all know who you’re really pulling for. 🥷🕵️🤫🤐
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I still believe this, more than ever
24.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 249 🔁 29 💬 10 📌 0The liberated Hebrew slaves were instructed to create a fragrant oil that would give their traveling place of worship a particular scent.
They were forbidden from replicating that fragrance in common life.
The point was sensory—they could smell and know, “This is where the presence of God is.” 1/2
"We grow toward Christlikeness only as we become more caring. A noncaring Christ-follower is a contradiction in terms. However, we cannot show real concern, especially for those in pain, unless we first take time to listen. We can only love those to whom we genuinely listen."
- Trevor Hudson
So disturbing. How does this kind of cruel mockery come out of the WH?
https://x.com/whitehouse/status/1891922058415603980?s=46
I wrote about masculinity. I might be wrong. But I wrote about it. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-challe...
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