J Arthur Eaton

One of the most misguided and misleading Christians of the 70s. Untold damage done. I wish we’d all been ready… with decent theology to push back.

As we get ready, I am now in my brain referring to our 2 pm dinner as the totem feast. I am relistening to this double episode this week and getting a lot more out of the conversation. As someone living in and from New England, this analysis is invaluable.

UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome - Ordinary Unhappiness Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the first installment of our two-part Thanksgiving Spec...

whether or not you're celebrating this week, here's a treat from @unhappinesspod.bsky.social to you: part one of our fan-fav special on The Holiday Syndrome, that messy complex of feelings, memories and behaviors that define this season, now unlocked! we hope you enjoy - or at least find it helpful!

ah, July 4th, the day USer celebrate how a band of brothers overthrew their own monstrous ur-father and made a pact between themselves to split the resources he had denied them and enjoy the fruits of theft, extraction, and domination themselves in harmonious equality and freedom

In a very strange moment of association I heard Cranberries Zombie while listening to Iron and Wine Upward Over the Mountain

Anyone else have a name that you are consistently called by people forgetting your name? Mine is Jason

A newfound discipline: using interlibrary loan requests rather than buying the book. Public libraries are such a treasure.

I am never as convinced of my commitment to liberation theology as during sermons like that. I find myself scrawling on the bulletin "repent and believe" and "narrow is the way" and "go and sin no more" and PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR.

It's like there's this Stockholm Syndrome happening or a codependent attachment. "If only we can make them feel welcome then they will be nicer people."

Recovering from a sermon that was delivered to a room of wealthy white liberals all about welcoming right-wingers and moving into the discomfort that Jesus welcomes the gun owner, etc. With no mention of an end, a telos, a cross toward which they are being called to follow, costly grace to into

Preferential option for the poor. The liberal church needs to stop this openness as an end in itself. Jesus did not come to proclaim "openness" but the basileia. The goodness of this good news is worth repenting for. Grace is not grace if we are left with our idols intact.

My son lost another tooth today which set him into serious reflection, child of a disenchanted cosmos as he is, what *is* the tooth fairy? The conclusion is that the tooth fairy has to be either a trained rat, squirrel, or chipmunk. Something in the rodent family."

Nurse practitioner: "Your labs are fabulous!" That's it. Year five. Discharged to PCP. Celebrating tonight! And this reflection:
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Such a fantastic song.

(My child's piano teacher is performing tonight at the public library playing harpsichord)

The playlist would have begun with a song I thought was harpsichord but was actually clavinet (an electronic keyboard designed to sound like a clavichord): Everyone by Van Morrison

Harpsichord in pop songs playlist this morning included Scarborough Fair by S&G, Piggies by the Beatles, Got to be there by Michael Jackson, You Still Believe in Me by Beach Boys, Half a World Away by REM, ending with a rousing All You Need Is Love by the Beatles

Anyone else listen to Ordinary Unhappiness? I'm loving every episode. The one today brought this quote from Freud that now I want to frame and hang in my office: To frame for office: "Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks."

Celebrating five years of life after lymphoma today! With food and cheer and song in good company.

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Sweater weather? Or Fleet Foxes weather?

This Year's Model is this morning's soundtrack.

"Hey there, Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you"

How many others out there are in their heads pronouncing this app like "brewski"?

No son, MC Hammer took that riff from Rick James.

After I finish reading the story of Jonah, my son looks serious and thoughtful and says, "Dad-o?" - And I get mentally prepared for any kind of interesting theological question - "Is 'da-na-na-na da-na da-na - Can't touch this!' the same artist as the one who goes 'she's a very kinky girl....'?"

Signed in at work on the visitor log (I work in a retirement community)
Elder woman: You just visiting today? Me: This place is not my home / I'm just a passing through.

The non-gamer Dad navigating Minecraft with his 7 yr old. <googles "open and close wooden door minecraft">

I can't get ELO's Mr. Blue Sky out of my head since signing up for this app.

Mona Bone Jakon!