Maybe... I think I would melt in Alabama though.
20.06.2025 05:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@kristopherwalhof.bsky.social
"I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead." (Leslie Newbigin) Minister of Word/Sacrament @crcna. Teacher at a theological school in Kenya.
Maybe... I think I would melt in Alabama though.
20.06.2025 05:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01/4. On the White Houseβs theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
15.04.2025 01:13 β π 31568 π 11742 π¬ 709 π 882'What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab?
Are they not both saying Hello?'
--Annie Dillard
#FaithAndScience
From the #Palestinian theologian Munther Isaac in his book From Land to Lands, From Eden to the Renewed Earth (highly recommend).
#HolyLand
#NewCreation
#MatterMatters
Summing up:
'Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot have understood it.'
--Niels Bohr
From the #Palestinian theologian Munther Isaac in his book From Land to Lands, From Eden to the Renewed Earth (highly recommend).
#HolyLand
#NewCreation
#MatterMatters
I gave up coffee + sweets for #Lent. Turns out #TotalDepravity is real.
07.03.2025 12:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02006. This book started a journey for me that is still going. So thankful.
#NTWright
#RageAgainstTheMachine
01.03.2025 08:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also nice people and the best food on the planet.
21.02.2025 11:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Had the opportunity to go to #Thailand. These are my people. Either they are just discovering the grunge era + hard rock of the 90's or they have been rightly celebrating it ever since.
I go to a restaurant: #Nirvana and #Evanescence. At the hardware store: #StoneTemplePilots and #LinkinPark π
'What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace, but a Christian prophet within earshot.'
--Kenneth Kaunda, former President of Zambia
#ChristTheKing
#Prophetic
@matthewkaemingk.bsky.social
07.02.2025 04:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.
03.02.2025 18:57 β π 11922 π 3589 π¬ 473 π 314Did... the *free* #Evernote program just hold my years' worth of notes hostage unless I agree to a paid subscription?π€ͺ
02.02.2025 10:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He would also make fun of them with cleverness and probably a significant degree of vulgarity.
I was already a Hauerwas fan, but in my one encounter with the man (asking him to sign a book), he lightly remarked that many in my tradition (Dutch Reformed) were assholes π.
These points by Hauerwas are not even that controversial...
Sorry you had to endure this. I am sure I quoted Hauerwas in my sem experience (schools that were not in the Hauerwasian strain), but I never got a reaction like this.
Wow. This is so... anti-academic.
Since all truth is God's truth, even those with whom we disagree with ideologically may well have things to teach us.
'There is Mary and there is Martha, but do they have license to live within the same skin?'
--Virginia Stem Owens
#StFrancis
#Birds
#BigFoot
#Sasquatch
Out of respect for the legacy of Jimmy Carter, I think it only appropriate that the Trump Presidency be canceled.
01.01.2025 00:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From the Pope to various Jewish groups to several Protestant faith figures, leaders across the religious spectrum are lauding Jimmy Carter.
One Baptist leader praised how Carter urged believers to "join Jesus in bringing good news (and) freedom for the oppressed."
julieroys.com/religious-le...
My 4th grade teacher *made me* read it. I was only interested in non fiction books at the time. It is no exaggeration to say that this fascinating book opened up worlds to me and deeply influenced the trajectory of my life (I am a Bible teacher and the Bible demands a healthy imagination).
30.12.2024 02:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You are certainly right. I suspect some things in this book would make me more than uncomfortable if I read it today.
30.12.2024 02:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My 4th grade teacher *made me* read it. I was only interested in non fiction books at the time. It is no exaggeration to say that this fascinating book opened up worlds to me and deeply influenced the trajectory of my life (I am a Bible teacher and the Bible demands a healthy imagination).
30.12.2024 01:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day
20 ππ
#booksky
#books
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day
19 ππ
#booksky
#books
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day
18 ππ
#booksky
#books