Caleb Henry

But yes things are much more peaceful and collegial, so I think that may have something to do with it

UMC pastor here in West Ohio. I would say the opposite is true for us. There hasn't been much on it at all. Our clergy session was focused on it (I think back in 2024?) but not much beyond that.

I have a daughter with lissencephaly so I thank you for posting this but most of all for listening to that father.

Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...

Now and Then www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Record cover of a man kneeling next to a warthog with a sword. The song "Twice" by Bilmuri

Legend

How Polarization Tore a Hole in America’s Mainline Churches What happened to America’s religious moderates, and why does it matter to our country’s future?

How Polarization Tore a Hole in America’s Mainline Churches newrepublic.com/article/2051... via @newrepublic.com

As a father of a disabled child this one just hurts too much...I hurt so terribly for this father and family

ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.

On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.

ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

"Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."

I am so disgusted to learn from the NY Times article today about Jonathan Ross that we were both students at Anderson University, a Christian college in Indiana, in 2006...

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast The Gen Z “Religious Revival” Isn’t Real

youtu.be/UdsPPxaGVUs?...

He donated a large sum in the past year for the first time. Don't know if IU made a big deal about it though!

Lol at Bluesky people all in for the Indiana Hoosiers after going after Mark Cuban a week before 😂

I acknowledge these are click bait headlines but we need to recover the type of discourse where something can be good/average...and that is ok.

I always appreciate your lists. I don't fault anyone for having not much metal but glad to see deafheaven made your list! (blut aus nord had probably the best metal wise imo). Rosalia was definitely aoty for sure no doubt

I recently read this and it recognizes the same dynamics using sociobiology and neurobiology.

Please read, subscribe, and all that: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/last-minut...

Revisiting this and wow just wow it still holds up so well after all these years.

#metal #metalsky #alternative

90s Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy has updated their facebook cover photo to say “Fighting Christian Nationalism since 1995.”

they have awoken the christian ska dragon

Abuse is a function not an aberration of patriarchal systems. It doesn't always take the form we commonly associate it with but it will take whatever form necessary to structure/maintain power for (certain) men.

Not to go full Adorno here, but I feel it's part of the issue with contemporary evangelical/non-denominational/Pentecostal Christianity essentially turning a commodity: the amount of Christian AI slop and kitsch on YouTube is the other side of this, and it comes from the same impulse.

“... we have something called connectionalism, which, in this moment, we are saying means: If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us”

As someone who serves on the BOM for my conference in the UMC, I need to hear this in the polity portion because this is 🔥

I'm so sorry Jeff. I remember meeting Benny so many years ago and he was such a joy. Grace and peace to you all as you mourn such a wonderful companion

Because of the music video I second this...you get him singing in front of the bat-signal lol

YouTube video by Jesse Welles - Topic No Kings

🎶 No hatred, no violence
No starvation, and no greed
And no kings, no kings, no kings music 🎶

#NoKings

youtube.com/watch?v=JXWD...

YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right

'The thing is, some leaders are players
And players sometimes can be clowns
And clowns then sometimes can be dangerous
When they’re there and yet they can’t be found
The Big Mac
The big man
The big bomb
The power of money and lies
The power of fear in the people
The wind doesn’t blow this far right'

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Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

"We now live in something closer to what we would call a state of generalized psychosis: a social landscape where symbolic authority has fractured, shared reality is unstable, and appeals to common norms routinely fail to hold any weight."

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

At some level, I understand that Pat McAfee, Clay Travis and Dave Portnoy are all different people, but I steadfastly refuse to tell them apart because that would involve having to don a welder's mask and sit through some White Hot Sports Takes.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.