Trevor Bechtel

It matters whether the catcher catches the pitch or not

Biblical Studies, Ministry, Theology

This is the great challenge most days.

This is valuable information

What is going on here and who thought of this?? I came up with a distinction between ethics and morality as a grad student and my mentor just said, “no.” (My program was ethics)

I saw my breath this morning

Indeed

The roving gangs thing is a real self fulfilling prophecy

He is his own explanation!!

Which is actually somewhat surprising given how necessary moving beyond a modern mindset is in order to ignore liberal democratic ideals

I agree that philosophy is not useful here. I also think that that is a statement; that it is meaningless philosophically to give statements other than children are starving and that’s bad.

Woah did this accelerate

Did you go to Hocking Hills? Absolutely Gorgeous

learned today that his parents went to Woodstock

It always feels weird in basketball when the starters come out and are lounging but the coach is still coaching just as hard but I guess they are the coach of the whole team

The key is the pretending, right?

Saddened to learn of David Tracy's death. I enjoyed reading his work, but his impact on me was mostly through his student John McCarthy who directed my dissertation, making Tracy my Doktorgroßvater. Family matters.

Happy Easter, fellow Radical Left Lunatics! Jesus is risen!

So cute!!

There is nothing quite like, “were you there,“ sung well in a dark church

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

It is the number of totality and completeness, so yah, there isn’t one.

It’s amazing how much work some of this stuff is

No way this is USC ball

live in the same world. I’ve always assumed it was the Karma built up from being married to me.

They are a third thing entirely … the this is a very wealthy neighborhood of course it has a random gravel road.

getting my voice ready for the national anthem

Here's my sermon from a week ago on communities and patience, with some reflection on mennonite institutions shalomcc.org/becoming-a-c...

One of the reasons that Trump likes tariffs so much is that a number of people who live in the USA have stopped paying attention to him, which is what he really wants, and he needs to go to new countries to get the responses he so cravenly craves.

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