Not to rub it in, but we’re in better shape over here in Australia than you are in America (pandemic-wise). But I’m still smarting from the effects of lockdown and, in particular, homeschooling — although I know that both could re-emerge at any moment. When the lockdown walls first began closing in, I knew that […]
Another Week Ends: Leo’s Apartment, The Boss’s Dad Issues, Jung’s Advice, the None’s Affiliation, and the FitBit’s Failure
1. I think we have to lead off with this one: Leo DiCaprio’s Malibu beach property is on the market (for a measly $11M), and the folks from LAist decided to have some fun with the realtors over at Redfin, in a nihilistic sort of way. With some help from their friends—Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche—the […]
New Persuasive Words: Sally Lloyd-Jones and The Jesus Storybook Bible
One of our favorite quotes comes from Thornton Wilder, the great novelist and playwright, who voiced a vision for the rehabilitation of Christianity in the midst of the Great Depression: The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem — new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. This principle, in my view, still holds […]
Mockingbird At The Movies
Here’s hoping your Inner Child has a wonderful time at the movies this year. God bless us, everyone!
“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
— Mark 10:15, Luke 18:17
“Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise.”
— Matthew 21:16
