Len Payne

I've been getting more into Banana Ball. I hadn't even thought of what it must be like to be at a game in person. The thirty second clips are great, but two hours of thirty second clips is certainly a different cup of tea than I'm used to.

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title

Tom Clancy's Little Women

“Marriage is the Mack truck driving through your life, revealing your flaws and humbling your reactions”

Butlerian Jihadist. If my day job of working with/for the AI overlords dries up, I will have no choice but to begin the uprising against the thinking machines.

Or go back to writing/teaching, if any of my experiences are worth hearing-about/learning.

“Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey’”

“What if this life is actually a relatively small part of your entire life, your entire life on earth is only a small part of your entire existence?”

Source: Wisdom: How to Get It (Sermon)

Starry Night is my favorite. It evokes both the ancient near eastern belief that the stars were supernatural beings, and the modern mystery of just how much is out there in God's wonderful universe that we just can't know yet.

Ultima VII: The Black Gate

The Revised English Bible is the Anglican response to the NLT. You'll find it most similar to the CEB of those you listed. It is very unique and very easy to read.

I shared this post with the biggest group of autistic Anglicans I know. Hopefully someone will be able to share some positivity. I know a lot of my autistic friends really gain a lot from study and liturgy, but I don't know how much they can speak to neuroscience rather than experience.

Every Trinity Sunday ...

No, God is not a 'community'.

I told you we’d be back

You definitely should have used garden twine.

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This is why I bought a half dozen green shirts last year.

I also have a collection of purple shirts and white shirts. I'm just glad I get to wear one of the red shirts finally.

This comment was a lot funnier when I thought you were talking about Licensed Lay Ministers instead of Large Language Models.

I think there's room for it with pioneers in a field. Like some of the early black theologians were out there doing the work that later students based dissertations on. I think it's a good call to give a guy like Rev John M Perkins an Hon PhD because he was too busy ministering to go back to school.

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Another vote for Wycliffe. I'm currently taking the MTS program part time online. I do two classes each term and eventually I'll graduate.

You can do the CTS program and graduate even faster if you want.

Happy to answer questions if you've got em.

www.wycliffecollege.ca/programs-cou...

We did homemade pretzel buns a few months back and I miss them so much.

A lot of work though. Definitely prefer to outsource that baking job on this side.

I pray yours turn out twice as awesome as ours did!

“Idolatry is always the reason we ever do anything wrong.… [Martin Luther argued that] the fundamental reason behind lawbreaking is idolatry. We never break the other commandments without breaking the first one”

Source: Counterfeit Gods

Photo of a black and white cat named Kletus who was the best girl ever.

Sad day. We had to say goodbye to this ray of sunshine today, unexpectedly. She was seventeen years young. I'm still having a bit of trouble processing it.

I hope this picture makes you smile. She was such a light to us. I'll miss her terribly.

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).

There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

~ Wendell Berry

Do Not Harm Yourself, for We Are All Here - Christianity Today Paul’s cry to the Philippian jailer is a model for the church to respond to suicide in an America plagued by deaths of despair.

“To those who wonder whether they belong and whether they matter to God, the answer of the gospel is always emphatically yes.”

“God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are”

“There is no such thing as an irreligious person, really. There is no such thing as a secular person, really. You either believe in the true God or else you are a slave to worshiping something that you treat as a god, but really isn’t”

Source: Enslaved to Non-Gods (Sermon)

Pay phones. www.yesjapan.com/culture/japa...

Sorry to cut your dive short.

“If God is a triune God, and if love and communication was at the very being of God from all eternity, then friendships, family, and loving relationships are more important than anything else in your life”

I'm familiar with it from this: www.amazon.ca/Bible-Promis...

We bought a few different versions of this book to pass out to friends and family and I honestly like the NLV best for people not familiar with the Bible.

The NLV was produced to do Arctic mission work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lif...