Jay Mallow

When you want to make it clear you hate N@zis on Halloween

I’m constantly amazed at how singularly unlikable everyone in this administration is but Bessent is a particular kind of duchbag

Searching for a Working Narrative The No Kings protests have revealed some deeply important and telling things about our current political moment.

“Almost everything we encounter now, whether it is in church culture or societal politics, should inspire the question, “What does this allow them to do?” I think for those of us that are Christians we need to learn to look past the rhetoric…”
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This would be on the news 24/7 with questions about his sanity if this were ANYONE else

Strong ending for the week

I don’t think I’ve ever immediately felt so bad for a man’s wife before. So toxic

I don’t know if the hair showed she should have known better or if it just completes the character

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Is there a “Third Way” Anymore? With the death of Charlie Kirk there were many in the Evangelical/”Reformed”/Christian Nationalist space online claiming the death of “Third Way” “Tim Keller” like Christianity.

“I see three areas that have caused me to look at my fellow Evangelicals and say, “It’s not both sides.”- 1. Inability to self-reflect. 2. Tolerance of sin and lack of repentance. 3. A constant need to create division and an inability to live in community”

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Some days you just get it in

People fear what they can’t control and that appears to go doubly in evangelical settings

Just starting off the week with a preview of STL for the next 8 months (it’s just grey). But this is my second run with new ROKA sunglasses and they are hands down the best work out glasses I’ve owned.

What Abandoning "Winsomeness" Reveals About Us (Hello everyone!

“However, in my life there is one basic, unifying, and ever-present impulse that I have experienced in my adult life as a Conservative Evangelical and that is fear. I have been told constantly and consistently that I should be afraid.”

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Picked up a bookcase off of Marketplace, did a Costco run, built a coffee table, and finished with a run. It’s been a full day of adulting

It is amazing what 70 degrees and it not being morning does

Beginning the week off strong

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The Roar of Silence On Tuesday there was a silence that spoke louder than any sort of applause could.

“If you’ve been in the military, you’ve met people who love making the lives of others miserable. These are the people who obsess over “standards”, who are looking for an excuse to punish anyone over the smallest infractions…”

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This is precisely what praying to yourself looks like.

It’s almost like people who believe in their own supremacy and think culture should cater to them have a tell…

Some weeks you do 10 easy. Other weeks 6 feels like your heart is exploding. The difference? 30 frickin degrees!

It’s back to 100+ here in STL

It’s been a while since I did this long a ride.

A light 6 cause I’m still recovering from doing 10 Monday

Didn’t expect I was gonna do 10 but I was feeling good at 4. Not a bad start to the week for an old man

Just putting in the work on a Wednesday

Well if it’s not blazing hot and I’ve gotten a decent amount of sleep 8 is still easy

It’s also almost always a way to promote a VERY specific hermeneutic that has a promotion of fundamentalism as its ultimate goal. This is Ken Hamm’s entire thing. He could care less about “Creationism” he cares that he wants you to read the REST of the Bible the way he wants.

Finished the week on a new schedule that has wrecked what little sleep normalcy I did have.

The Culture that Produced Focus on the Family "Crrrreeeeaaaakkk" Some of us know the distinct sound and even feel of the opening of a plastic cassette holder in a crowded car.

“So much of Focus and Dobson's material, including the books they published, were textbook propaganda- repeated statements that were assumed culturally true regardless of factual truth.”

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