I’ve been writing on some heavy themes lately. So how about a little light-hearted fare this week? I promise we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled deep dives into modern atrocity and what we can do about it very soon. But this week, let’s talk nerd. For those new around here, The
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“America places its best men on pedestals so that others can throw stones at them.” – Tom Clancy Back in January of 2024, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk loosed a “hot take” about Martin Luther King, Jr. that I haven’t heard much: “MLK was awful,” Kirk said. “He’s not a good person. He
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I’ve been wrong about a lot of things in my life. I used to believe that Jesus was a crutch for weak-minded fools, abortion was a nice safety net for momentary slip ups, and pornography was no big deal. I like to think that post-salvation, I’ve corrected the navigational headings on all
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The word “slavery” tends to conjure up images in our minds of southern plantations, or Africans in chains being hauled across the Atlantic Ocean. Close your eyes and you can likely recall some black and white images you once saw in a documentary or history textbook. Maybe you think about Roots, or
Many years ago I initiated a personal policy: Whenever anyone asked me how I was doing, I would answer with, “Excellent.” Whether I felt excellent in that moment or not, I would use it as an opportunity to speak blessing over myself; sort of a “dress for success” kind of confession. I’d
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of needing to deal with a government agency, you’ve experienced the Circumlocution Office. In a recent post my wife explained the Circumlocution Office and all of its bureaucratic glory. Taken from the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit, it’s essentially a term used to describe the nonsensical
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How do you create a cloud? Well, let’s back up and revisit our elementary school science lessons. What are clouds? Clouds are the product of three factors coming together: water vapor, dust, and cold air. Surface water evaporates into the air where it attaches to atmospheric dust. When that combination is cold
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