Wife, poet (words in The Rabbit Room & more), marketing manager. Denver/Birmingham. Reformed-ish. Tweets about books, theology. Reality keeps ruining my life
“Men go about admiring the high mountains and the mighty waves of the sea and the wide sweep of rivers and the sound of the ocean and the movement of the stars, but themselves they abandon.” - Augustine
Ah,
@SlowToWrite
I repent of being quick to judge you. Phrasing of the tweet was definitely cause for alarm but I/we should have asked you to clarify before assuming the worst. "discipline" in vernacular English in context of children almost always refers to physical punishment
@sewistwrites
@clhubes
huh - see I read this as her being really selfish/callous - if my fiance had something of that much sentimental value, it would be super selfish of me to reject it because it doesn't fit my "theme" for the nursery
@krmaher
@YumikoSatoMTBC
the function of journalism is not culture-enforcing or culture-keeping but reporting. Facts, information. Has
@NPR
so totally lost its way you don't remember that?
This is one of the deepest reasons I immediately hated Game of Thrones when I started the first book - it was so clear that R.R. Martin hated most good things/hated virtue
Probably the most famous recent critique of honor is Game of Thrones. There we see men of honor like Ned Stark get steamrolled by more adept connivers. When his head is severed from his body at the end of season one, the implication is that he deserved his fate.
@clhubes
@sewistwrites
I plan to homeschool my children, so I have the highest respect for the work of mothers 🙄. There's no correlation between that and the silliness of her being committed to her decoration theme. It's literally decorations we're talking about here.
@clhubes
wait why should the woman run? I agree it's really sad that he posted this online/made a private issue public, but he's completely justified in wanting his family's rocking chair in the nursery & preserving the beautiful memories he has
@PauloniusMonk
@SlowToWrite
shrug, he may be guilty of over-spiritualizing sleep training, but most Christians are guilty of over spiritualizing things. I would also caution you against spreading disunity since the NT has very strong warnings against dividers
I've been reading
@JcScharl
's collection "Ponds" for the last week and am enthralled. This is an excerpt from my favorite of the entire collection, the breathtaking "Penelope", a retelling of Penelope & Odysseus (which is already one of my favorite stories!!)
#poetry
#jcscharl
@HannahPosted
I love/respect Jordan Peterson & hate & have never followed Steven Crowder. No idea who these other people are but there's very little real overlap between Peterson & Crowder. Peterson is a philosopher/professor/psychiatrist with a deep concern for humans that drives all his work
I am getting married in one (1!) day and am amazed both at how natural it feels *and* what a gigantic, weighty thing and immense commitment it is. May God protect and keep us.
#silverbells
@GShaneMorris
this. yes. I was crippled by indecision for all of my 20s due to being fed a false belief, partly from church, partly from culture, that I had to have a magical inspired calling and also a magical total certainty about marriage. have only broken out in my mid 30s
@dalepartridge
Hmm this seems a step too far. I am complementarian but cherry-picking one verse as the totality of God's vision for women isn't solid Bible exegesis. For example it would be easy to do this to the Bible vision for men as well:there are multiple verses commanding men to be humble
I posted a few days ago about how I've abruptly exploded into a renewed love of poetry, and I just posted how much I loved a recent
@pauljpastor
poem, so it's perhaps no surprise that my latest poetry acquisition is this, just purchased
#bowerlodge
@Andrewnsnyder
Paul. That would be HYSTERICAL. The number of theological takedowns he would dish out plus his occasional forays into sarcasm. I would pay for it :)
@KaeleyT
nah I enjoy Walsh greatly and he's my fiance's favorite political commentator, and my fiance actively supports and encourages me not just in my corporate career but in all my endeavours, so not a chauvinist. Also, try engaging with Walsh's ideas intead of slinging insults
Really excited for
@TheAlanNoble
's upcoming book On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living. "While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy...the burden of living still comes down to mundane choices that we each must make―like the daily choice to get out of bed"
influenced by
@malcolmguite
I have pre-ordered
@ithinkiamsteven
's upcoming poetry book, Below the Brightness, and so should you! Here's a gorgeous sample of his work -
"they didn’t know about you
and the new brine we breathe."
cc
@SolumPress
Hopefully no one but me is up at this hour, but I have a rare prayer request: insomnia has been getting worse over the last month and I spent the last few hours tossing and turning to increasingly dark worries about the future. Could you pray that I can sleep? Long workday tmrw
@refsojourner
@matt_everhard
Um. This book looks like it has literally everything I love. Topic of joy. JONATHAN EDWARDS. Exploration of the Trinity! thank you for posting, buying this asap!
@NancyRPearcey
I thought it was a mildly brilliant film. Well structured, creative, and pulls off an insanely difficult conceptual world well. Also not nearly as woke as conservative critics described it (a rare case where I disagree with both Ben Shapiro and Critical Drinker 😂)
@mrs_alyse
I repented of being quick to judge him after reading his post (it's also worth mentioning he's from Ghana and may not be quite as familiar as some people with the implication of discipline vs training)
I'm ok for the record, but I've been dwelling on this verse all week because it is BEAUTIFUL.
“You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth You will bring me up again.” Psalm 71:20
#psalms
I've written 516 words of poetry over the last two days as I've been battling sadness: some of it's good and some of it's not. Here's a line I don't hate:
February is a sorrow that bites
At the rest of the year resentful.
#poetry
@dalepartridge
and to speak gently, and yet we don't take that to mean that men must occupy low positions and never take on leadership or be authoritative. I agree however that the Bible centers nurture for women; I don't think it centralizes agreeableness as a core Biblical trait for women
@blonde_emk
I haven't seen much of her work so can't be totally sure, but from what little I've seen I absolutely despise her stuff and am inclined to agree
Psalm 23 gives three pictures of who God is, and three declarations we can make as a result.
The LORD is:
—My shepherd in the fields (1)
—My companion in the valley (4)
—My host at the table (5)
Therefore I shall:
—not want (1)
—fear no evil (4)
—dwell in his house forever (6)
@jmasseypoet
@Rquietlyreading
So much of it is either trendy, or poised & well-written but completely forgettable. She also said what a poet should truly be striving for is not publication (said it's fairly easy to get published now) but to eventually be able to write like Keats. Which was convicting to me
I've really grieved and shocked by the lack of wisdom and grace in the responses to Alistair Begg. This is not a doctrinal/foundation issue and falls under freedom of the Spirit and personal conviction.
@sewistwrites
it was a disturbing moment. Andy Reid should suspend him for disrespecting his coach/boss so badly, and if I were his girlfriend/taylor swift, I'd be having an incredibly serious confrontation with him about what was running through his mind and whether he has anger issues
@madehrselfqueen
@clhubes
@sewistwrites
fair enough. My assessment of the original scenario presented stands, but this is why I'm against pple posting this stuff online or a lot of engagement with it from us/the audience, because it's never the full story
The newest book upcoming from The Circe Institute
@circeins
could not BE more up my alley: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul From Mediocrity by Joshua Gibbs
@davidrlroberts
@FischerKing64
it may feel hard if you're letting yourself fully live within a 21st-century framework of "marriage is for lifestyle enhancement/partner to improve my life". For the rest of human history until the last 80 years people didn't marry for enhancement/enjoyment
@joelrainey
I have multiple friends who had experienced long-term same-sex attraction and are now in happy heterosexual marriages. Of course this was in 2011-2016, before the great woke movement surround-sounded everyone with beliefs that sexual orientation is absolutely unchangeable
.
@Rquietlyreading
@jmasseypoet
have either of you read Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook? It's *tremendous*. And she spends a few of the first pages very graciously *wrecking* contemporary poets which is a delight. She posit that what's missing from modern poetry is *memorability*
Beautiful by
@pauljpastor
:
"It was the year of changes; of pyrite in the stream, and mica;
the year that it has been since we can remember.
And under the rusting swing, mason bees curved their blue jig
and played house in the cottonwood,
for it was the year of changes."
#poetry
@micah_thiesen
sigh that's probably the spiritual dulling effect of seminaries which over-intellectualize faith. My dad has been a missionary for 33 years, never went to seminary, loves Matthew Henry
@JBsTwoCents
I love my church but the way marriage is constantly extolled & singleness marginalized as "other" is very painful at times. I think it might have been one of your articles that said it's harder to be single in the church than outside it & I agree with that. Never leaving tho :)
@racheljwelcher
oh wow. this is really sad. I'm mixed on MacArthur - have had a lot of friends with very varied experiences at his church/I think there are strengths and weaknesses to his public ministry -but this stance of his is very foolish and I"m not surprised to hear you say it caused harm
@KyleJamesHoward
....what? "Liberal" is a term referring solely to politics that has been around approximately forever. To tie it to racial slurs or say it's in the same category makes absolutely zero sense. Please do not pollute language and meaning, which are important, with lazy dogmatics.
After a decade away, I have suddenly, this year, become a person that both buys and actively reads poetry, and I'm SO grateful to be suddenly inspired and in this world again. Latest purchase is Luci Shaw's Eye of the Beholder
@scott_packett
@scotmcknight
thank you for pointing this out. It's a grave thing to interfere in the running of someone else's denomination and how a family of churches you don't belong to live out their faith, and
@scotmcknight
should reconsider
@racheljwelcher
@EvanWelcher
try The Newsroom! A bit similar to West Wing in that it's full of very fast-talking, quippy, likable people. Looks like it's going to be boring and then by about 45 mins in it's *absolutely gripping*
@RachaelColby7
I think I and others don't set enough healthy boundaries and habits. We think we have more self control and power over our life than we do. It's so easy to slide into laziness or sin or compromise if we're drifting along
#healthyfaithchat
#ecclesiastes
This is very insightful and true
(There's something about the desperation/degeneracy of man's default state/condition that the great Russian novelists understood very well)
There is a kind of person who must cling to religion, every last aspect of it, just to control himself, prevent himself from falling into total degeneracy. The routine is his protection against himself. Tolstoy describes this in Anna Karenina - Nikolai Levin, who clings to
@BritLeeAllen
also I've had EMDR for trauma and it's been significantly more helpful than anything else. The Bible addresses our spiritual & emotional deepest needs but God provides through common grace for specialty therapy that helps fix brain pathways broken by intense experiences
If every sunlit, sail-crowded sea under blue heaven flecked with wind-chased white filled your soul, as with a new gift of life, think what sense of existence must be yours if he, whose thought has but fringed its garment with the gladness of such a show, were to make his abode
3/3 With that being said,
@ScottAniol
's take on how Christian Nationalism includes but goes beyond biblical faithfulness is both wise and incisive.
#christiannationalism
@joelrainey
I don't think that MOST long-term SSA attracted people will be able to enter into happy heterosexual relationships. But I admire her for saying out loud that it's absolutely possible and does happen, and that hope, of God's heart-change and redemption, should be present
@baker_tricia
@clhubes
that's an incredibly unhealthy view of any relationship dynamic but ESPECIALLY marriage. If he gets his way in everything because he pays, she's just domestic help/labor, not a wife
@RachaelColby7
#HealthyFaithChat
I'm Claire. I'm a writer/poet/marketing manager, and former missionary kid overseas. I'm thankful for honey lavender lattes, Jonathan Edwards' A Theology of Joy, and that (so far) I've weathered the economy and haven't been laid off!
@KSPrior
Hm. I'm very pro-life & against laws that punich women, but there's a lot of circular reasoning and ambiguous language in here that I found confusing. 1 specific thing I found confusing - what are examples of NT overlooking individual sin due to surrounding culture?
This is lovely (though, I wonder if American farmers would experience similar benefits of leaving piles of leaves and dead wood around, since we don't have hoverflies 😂)
“Leave your cuttings and rakings in sun-warmed piles in quiet corners. They don’t need burning and will bring many benefits, not least the many solitary bees that will re-emerge in springtime.” —Christopher Hart
What are your views of open air evangelism?
I think that
- done well
- as one way among others
It can be a wonderful way to get the good news of Jesus out there, particularly to people who might not have any Christians in their lives.
@TheAlanNoble
just prayed. May you have the patience with yourself and your mind to wait through awful emotions, and the hope to know they will pass and you'll feel like yourself again :)
@BrandonAmbro
that's nonsense. She converted as a fully grown adult (and professor with a PhD to boot). There was nothing remotely like "conversion therapy" in her story. Do you not believe in freedom to practice religion?
@Andrewnsnyder
weird take from Oliver because every crime fan that I know still lOVES Sherlock and talks about it as one of the better crime shows. I rewatch it every couple of years. First season was downright brilliant and even final season had clever twists and great acting
Chapter 6 of Aggressively Happy by
@joynessthebrave
, on Mr. Collins, and living a quietly satisfied life, is one of the most delightful and profound things I've read in the last two years. If you haven't read this lovely book, pick it up
Made a personalized 2021 reading challenge that anyone's welcome to use! Choices include books by: Tamar Adler on cookery,
@KSPrior
on reading, Rupi Kaur on poetry, Flannery O'Connor letters, writers on creativity and learning to draw, and more
@jmasseypoet
A professor friend actually said that poetry has increased in popularity something like 30% in t he last few years. A lot of it is Rupi Kaur but not all of it
THIS response to Beth Moore is also where I went - "Where is your lament for our current political leadership? The Biden administration is objectively wicked. Destructive. Oppressive. Idolatrous. Bloodthirsty. Foolish. It actively promotes the butchering of children"
Beth, while Trump isn’t my guy in the primary (nor was he in 2016), I do think you have a blind spot.
There may be a segment of Trump fans who love everything he posts, including the name-calling and the accusations of backstabbing toward former allies he now considers
@AmysMargin
it's funny, I was just thinking today that as hard as it is to intellectually narrow down my favorite two novels, every time someone asks, the top 2 that spring to mind are Pride and Prejudice and LOTR. For pure re-reading though, probably Louis L'Amour's Guns of the Timberlands
Incarnation, central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, that God assumed a human nature and became a man in the form of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. Christ was truly God and truly man.
#Advent2020
#Advent
#incarnation
#ChristisKing
@FreeRangeKids
I'm 35 and personally, I'm a devout Christian and it took until 33 to meet someone I wanted to marry (I'm now engaged and planning to have kids in the next year after getting married)
IMO, Christian space on X is so bizarre and so often lacking in the accountability that's expected everywhere else, that I think everyone should list their denomination in their bio, or at least whether they believe the Westminster confession & what they believe about men/women
I had to miss almost all of
#HutchmootHomebound
because of friends visiting, but catching up now: so far have listened to
@drmoore
's
#Narnia
lecture on Neil Gaiman (really fantastic) &
@DickersonWrites
' lecture on Tolkein's Leaf By Niggle (didn't agree with everything but v good)
@itsallisonleigh
I support red flag laws (Maine doesn't have them) but tbh, it won't resolve it. Massive mental health crisis among men is driving the mass shootings and they'll just use handguns & shotguns instead. Red flag laws are a good first step but need to do deep culture work.
@KatelynBeaty
@between2worlds
@swimflythrive
@samueld_james
Samuel's article actually strikes an even balance in which he points out that RHE and Wilson engaged at length, with enthusiasm and vitriol, with each other, that both were to blame. It's a great piece pondering the ways using social media can change someone's heart for the worse