Rocketlad

Thank you for sharing this. I am now a Lordle addict.

In old Baptist liturgies, they'll ring a bell to center everyone before the service fully starts.

Sometimes my Church won't ring the bell, and I have started feeling cheated tbh.

Every commentary I find on Genesis 9 and the administration of government is like: "death penalty is a forever rule - but prohibitions on rare steak is not cause I like blood."

Please help.

I have an uncle who was an Elvis impersonator as his full-time job in Louisiana.

He now is a tour guide at an aircraft museum and owns a woven rug of Elvis in a sparkly costume that he keeps in his Elvis shrine-porch.

His first convo with my wife, pre-name exchange, was about knee surgeries.

people who have nowhere to live are not a "problem." Matthew 25:40 icymi. If a system is not for its people then what use is it? House people who have no place to live. It's the most pressing domestic issue. It should be every working politician's first priority in the richest country ever to exist.

Like, the weird magisterialist theology of Baptists in America right now is so confusing for a movement of churches explicitly founded as anti-magisterial.

To put it into perspective, Baptist used to debate whether voting at all was okay for Baptists, let alone making laws.

I think an in-house church problem that is actually impacting the whole country on a weird scale is how many Baptists don't know anything about Baptist ecclesiology.

And like, not congregants, like denominational leaders in Baptist denoms and associstions.

Evangelicalism for sure has a very "claim the famous, disown the rest," attitude. Lewis has very little beyond basics to agree with Wilson on (if that), same goes for like John Piper or whoever, but he is famous so Evangelicals are like - "this person is my property now."

Ibid MLK.

The NRSV, my Catholic friends have told me, is great. It is by crossway's parent company, and tends toward a similar translation philosophy, but tends to be cleaner English.

Super important passage to the Genesis narrative - so glad to hear there are people who are not skipping it.

The Center for Excellence in Preaching has a good article on Gen 38. Jewish Theological Seminary also provides a complementary Jewish reading of the text in "Literary Analysis of Judah and Tamar." Both articles are free online.

I don't know how I didn't see it before, but he must have.

*literally anything happens*

Evangelicalism: "is this whole thing... entirely about me?"

Mountain Goats have been hitting especially hard for me lately.

"When you punish a person for dreaming their dream, don't expect 'em to thank or forgive you."

I want to try duck. But where do people get duck? Do you need to be a British Lord to eat duck?

Any way, looking fot duck recs

Ravenloft update: we killed Strahd, first run of the module, never thought it would happen. My head has never been bigger maybe ever.

Online Christian discourse lately just seems like a lot of Protestants blaming communities they are not in for all of the problems of the world.

Because someone has to scape the goat, so why not us I guess - ?

Stop playing Christmas music the day after Halloween. November is for indie folk rock made between 2005-2015.

Actually Frankenstein is the name of the doctor who is the monster. You are thinking of Frankenstein’s victim.

The four temperments is an ancient Greek medical categorization, a part of humourism, described by Hippocrates.

LeHaye and other Christian writers picked it up because it was influencial to reformers during the renaissance.

I think I have fallen in love with the AD&D Cleric. It is just so effective as a support class AND is solid in combat. Their spells naturally stack, they have great abilities; just a lovely class all around.

Idk if 5e Clerics have the same grit and capability tbh.

Our stats so far are 4 out of 4 PCs alive after 8 hours of gameplay; 5 major, lenghty combat encounters, mostly outnumbered, with only 5 HP lost throughout.

Update on Ravenloft: the oneshot has inevitably extended beyond one night. But we have kept our whole party alive so far, which I am proud of - and we have the implements of Strahd's doom in hand (I think).

AD&D is crazy cause a wizard can teleport fricken 100 miles at level 3, but has 5 HP and could die of cat scratches.

My wife is running AD&D Ravenloft tonight. She has made it quite clear that she expects an unavoidable TPK in the secord or third hour.

Wish me luck.🛡🗡... 🎲

Hey who wants to join me in melting down every firearm in America and forging them into ploughshares?

More like the "please have mercy" side Derby.

part of being online is realizing that the root of a lot of anger is not being able to read