2023-01-03: DeMarco and Lister: The statistics about reading are particularly discouraging: The average …

2023-01-02: Starting the new year with a little script for making goals: goals.txt.

2022-12-28: Finished reading: Spiritual Counsels IV: Family Life) by St. Paisios the Athonite 📚 I extracted a …

2022-12-21: wisdom The following occurred on the island of Paros during the German occupation. After an act of sabotage …

2022-11-23: evening +John the Solitary: When evening comes, collect your thoughts and ponder over the entire course of …

2022-11-11: Alan Jacobs: There are pretty much always some elements of Christian teaching that you can get away …

2021-10-22: Superman ice cream, waffle cone with peanuts.

2021-10-02: birthday cake ice cream, chocolate dip waffle cone.

2021-09-29: Dreamcicle, in a rainbow sprinkle waffle cone, with extra rainbow sprinkles on top.

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2021-09-21: Twitter I recently deleted my Twitter accounts, finally. Watching the spiritual ill that social media …

2021-09-18: Alan Jacobs: Why does the American church today “disapprove of Jesus”? There are many reasons, but …

2021-02-12: Currently reading: Personalism by Emmanuel Mounier 📚 A thousand photographs put together will not …

2021-01-12: Currently reading: On Human Being: Spiritual Anthropology by Olivier Clément 📚

2020-12-13: Jeanne Lenzer suggests that perhaps nobody has the whole truth on COVID science: The debates over …

2020-11-19: concerning the recent report from the Catholic Church Luke 10: But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” In reply …

2020-11-12: Both New Polity (Marc Barnes, Jacob Imam) and Liz Breunig agree: Laity are (a big part of) the …

2020-11-07: “Roman Catholicism does not readily distinguish between public and private moral …

2020-11-07: Liz Bruenig: “It’s just that the Catholic right is no longer recognizably Catholic. Its …

2020-11-07: a wide, barren, featureless liberty Liz Bruenig Which is to say that [Biden] is an ordinary Democrat — more or less his explicit pitch. …

2020-10-17: group identities: the essential task Alan Jacobs: The question, for me, is whether this increasingly widespread abandonment of …

2020-08-20: checking email apps only every 36 hours! The workflow with Hey, my newly-acquired email app from the folks at Basecamp, has me in an …

2020-08-16: hey I just became a very happy customer of 37Signal’s email app, “Hey”. You should …

2020-08-14: Alan Jacobs: [Wokeness] is basically a secularized Counter-Reformation. It has: magisterial …

2020-08-10: self-cancel culture among the moderate woke Jack Fencl: It’s not cancel culture (the external threat) that is the greatest threat to …

2020-08-07: keep it real, Bonnie Our local B.C. hero, Bonnie Henry, even has a “Good Times Guide.” Part of the …

2020-08-06: Currently reading: The Analogy of Love: Maximus the Confessor and the Foundation of Ethics by …

2020-08-06: come to Regent College! If you’re intersted in graduate theology education, Regent College is an excellent option. …

2020-07-31: mercy Alan Jacobs: In my judgment, it is the opportunity to receive and extend forgiveness that is the …

2020-07-11: reforming and deforming, with Chesterton G. K. Chesterton (The Thing, 1929): In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming …

2020-07-08: Natural antibodies? Emily Chung, Christine Birak, Marcy Cuttler, cbc.ca: A closer look at people who tested positive …

2020-07-08: Bonnie H isn't fussing Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s much-loved leader on COVID, on the letter from 230 scientists to the WHO: …