I gotta be real: as much as bot accounts became a problem on Twitter/X, I feel like they’re way *worse* here. It looks like at least a full third of my followers are not actual people
Samuel James
@samueldjames.bsky.social
Author (Digital Liturgies). Editor @ Crossway.
Never ever forget that the inhumane despair facing so many of us was enabled, not first by Silicon Valley or activists, but by scientism. You don’t hate scientism enough.
Matt C@mattcivico.bsky.social · 2y agoblog.ayjay.org/two-quotatio...
Really shocked Harbaugh accepted that 2nd and 30 holding penalty. You’re just begging for some kind of defensive penalty by doing that….
My latest substack is about modern malaise. How is it that in a Tinder culture we don’t touch each other? And in a pluralistic society we don’t talk to each other? What can the church say about this? www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
A Christian apologetic of malaise
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I had the privilege of reading this book in draft stage. It is superb. Even if you think you know Keller’s spiritual theology well, the organization and context Matt gives it makes it fresh and newly encouraging. Cannot recommend this more. www.amazon.com/Tim-Keller-C...
Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel [Smethurst, Matt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
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Kids, have a seat. Now. I know you’ve all been reading the news lately. But I have something to tell you, about a pardon for all offenses that’s much more important, and comes from a much more powerful Person…
Confession: I like John Wayne, always have, and I think Du Mez’s book is a mess that got a pass unjustly.
Thanksgiving meets Christmas. “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk. 2:11) “Unto you.” Most precious words in that verse. We give thanks for what we have. The angels told us: we have Jesus. Forever grateful.
No conference or retreat ever unearths more about your marriage than moving furniture does
The doldrums of a 10+ year old marriage and kids who are growing up really do limit how self-focused adults can be. That’s a bad reason to blow up your life, and a good reason to let go of therapeutic selfishness. Good column:
Niall Gooch@niallgooch.bsky.social · 2y agoMy latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Most savage JJ Abrams subtweet I’ve ever seen
Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2y agoThere is glory in the unexpressed thought.
I said this over on the other site not long ago and I’m convinced we’re going to continue to see it play out. Progressive Christians will end up being laggards on these issues as they become more important and they won’t just be lagging behind conservative Christians, but behind secular liberals.
Keith Plummer@xianmind.bsky.social · 2y ago“Here is the question that haunts [Emily] Harrison: Why haven't more religious leaders been willing to address the scary trends linked to smartphone abuse in the urgent, even fiery language used by secular figures such as Haidt and Maher?” www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/no...
An interesting hypothesis from Ben Sixsmith: Red-pilled misogyny meets a psychological need for men who are frustrated and ashamed by their porn use. Gives both rationalization—“women want this anyway”—and a sense of escape.
Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil. Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.
61 years ago today three men died on the same day: John F Kennedy, Alduous Huxley, and CS Lewis. Camelot is gone. The Brave New World is eating itself. But Narnia remains. A piece I wrote last year for World: wng.org/opinions/a-p...
A prophetic voice rings out
Samuel D. James | Sixty years later, C.S. Lewis speaks to the needs of our times
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Modern “secularization” can be seen from one angle as the rejection of higher times, and the positing of time as purely profane. I don’t know about you But I’m feeling twenty-two!
Our language has lost its constitutive power. This means that we can deal instrumentally with realities around us, but their deeper meaning is ignored and often invisible to us. I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
Congrats to Judge Judy on her forthcoming nomination for attorney general
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name for nomination as US Attorney General.
It’s just hard to expel the idea from my mind that the Antioch Statement exists for no other reason than that certain pastors have realized the checks they’ve been cashing were signed by genuinely wicked people, and the goal now is to let friends know that you know that, without losing the checks
“Public discourse itself, separated from the standard of truth, creates on its part, the more it prevails, an atmosphere of epidemic proneness and vulnerability to the reign of the tyrant.”
Lifeway and Crossway are releasing their first Bibles in a dyslexia-friendly typeface, starting with a kids Bible that comes with colored overlays for reading. www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/dysl...
And the Word Became Accessible: Publishers Release Dyslexia-Friendly Bibles - Christianity Today
Designer hopes a new custom typeface will be a life-changing tool for those with reading disorders.
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I used to think “political idolatry”was a big problem. Not anymore. www.digitalliturgies.net/p/its-not-po...
It's Not Political Idolatry. It's Boredom.
I’ve used the phrase “political idolatry” before.
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I know this is Bluesky and it is an echo chamber but I still must insist on challenging the conventional wisdom: kids don’t need to carry water bottles all over the place all the time.
Everyone needs a novel that’s more like a friend. This one is mine.
