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Fortnightly Health Update (10 April): kyleessary.com

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@drewbelf This is worth the boast. Congrats. I’d be proud.

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@ayjay This is my exact practice. Moving to Instapaper gives me a break to consider whether it was ever worth saving to begin.

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@ablerism I think I might try to write it out in a post sometime soon, where I have more space. I don’t deny salvation history, and think it does bring so much together, but I’m skeptical of it serving as the prime structure through which the OT communicates its theology.

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@KyleEssary I say this as someone who has taught courses on Biblical Theology using Goldsworthy, Goheen, and Wellum/Gentry. I don’t doubt that ‘salvation history’ plays a role in the theology of the OT, but I no longer think it provides the structure to the theology of the OT.

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I’m increasingly skeptical that ‘salvation history’ accounts for the theology of the Old Testament. It cannot account for (1) too much of the content of the OT, nor for the form of the OT. It also falls prey to reducing the OT to a ‘witness’ to history and not seeing it as revelation in itself.

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@bbowman I remember reading some Mockingbird articles 15-16 years ago and thinking they were cool, but I didn’t ‘get it’ at the time. I do now and I’m going back and reading so much at that site.

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This comes from a very different theological perspective than Tim Keller (episcopal vs. PCA), but this felt like the type of book and thinking that Keller would have loved.

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Finished Reading: Low Anthropology by David Zahl 📚

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The cherry blossoms are out in Osaka!

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@patrickrhone I have either been in that restaurant or the one next door. Greece stands out for many reasons among the places I’ve travelled.

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Fortnightly Health Update (26 March 2026): kyleessary.com

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This sticks out as one of the better books from the past few years. Jamieson gets to the heart of many modern complexities and does so through Ecclesiastes.

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Finished Reading: Everything Is Never Enough by Bobby Jamieson 📚

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This was a fascinating article: ‘The Post-Christian Condition’

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The crucial feature is its confidence: it genuinely believes that the wine can be held without bottles without loss and that the theological ground of these concepts is separable from their content.

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@lukemperez I still love Maverick. Such an enjoyable flick.

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@lukemperez It’s easily among the most enjoyable films of the past few years. Outstanding.

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@isaacgreene This is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.

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@philbowell We have the full Proton account, which includes Proton Pass. It doesn’t integrate as well as Apple Passwords. We tried it, but eventually stuck with Apple.

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@ChrisJWilson About two years back, we dropped 1Password after probably 15-20 years. We switched to just Apple Passwords and it’s worked great.

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@mwerickson This is a good point. The ‘nexus points’ in Scripture, as a friend calls them, are rich and usually involve a whole series of connections between verses and conceptual ideas even.

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Fortnightly Health Update (13 March 2026): kyleessary.com

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This is a good introduction for those interested in the work of Kuyper and Bavinck. The chapters on Scripture and Common Grace stood out.

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Finished Reading: Neo-Calvinism by Cory C. Brock 📚

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@bbowman Praise God! Congrats on such a beautiful baby girl.

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@ChrisJWilson Wow! How strange. I’m glad it started working again.

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@philbowell I have read it. I thought it was honest from his perspective and showed the importance of non-rational reasons for changing belief alongside rational ones.

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@ayjay I just picked this up and look forward to the review.

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@marmanold Christians may disagree on the ‘plain meaning’ of certain passages. But when the global church across denominations has had a virtually uniform interpretation of these matters until the past century, then we should have the humility to ask whether the problem is us and not the tradition.

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@grmr Those are some good looking dogs.

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@patrickrhone Congrats! I’m sure you’re incredibly proud.

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Fortnightly Health Update (27 February 2026): kyleessary.com

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@ayjay I’m interested why you find him a key to the whole novel. I always saw him as a ‘there’s magic beyond this story’ type of character.

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@grmr I like Jon’s academic work, but didn’t know this one. What are your thoughts?

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@aa Wow! Congrats!

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This was less helpful and, though not old, already felt dated.

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Finished Reading: Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby 📚

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This was a good reminder of some basic principles.

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Finished Reading: Small Teaching by James M. Lang 📚

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‘I would never want to go back to my prayer life before pancreatic cancer’

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Tim Keller (who died of pancreatic cancer) via Ben Sasse (who is dying of pancreatic cancer)

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I’m working my way through The Brothers Zahl podcast. I’m only three episodes in, but it’s excellent.

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@lukemperez Lord, have mercy. Know that we will pray for you and your family during this difficult time.

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@marmanold If you didn’t read Staples’s first book, as he says, it’s not essential to his argument in the latter book. But I might argue it’s even more persuasive and has grounded his larger project more definitively in my mind.

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Finished Reading: The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han 📚

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This was extremely dense and challenging. Paragraphs took time and re-reads. It had valuable insights on ‘multitasking’, ‘hyperactivity’, and ‘achievement culture’.

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@ReaderJohn Wow! That’s excellent. Keep it up.

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Fortnightly Health Update (13 February 2026): kyleessary.com

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Thanks to Brady Bowman for recommending this book. It was very good and practical. It was unintentionally quite Christian at parts.

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Finished Reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

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What a book! I see why it necessitated so much response in Wright’s second edition of The Mission of God. I’ll need to ponder this one for awhile.

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Finished Reading: God Draws Near by Collin Cornell 📚

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I wouldn’t have expected to find this in Malaysia, and yet …

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I re-read this 20+ years after its initial release. The articles by Davis, Bauckham, and Jensen remain excellent. Others feel dated. Its still good overall

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Finished Reading: The Art of Reading Scripture by Ellen F. Davis 📚

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I just subscribed to a Substack for the first time. I didn’t realise it was a whole algorithmic social media mess. Now, I want to unsubscribe and stop reading those who post there. At least the authors get paid.

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Matthew Milliner at his finest.

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More people could stand to flee from the laundered capitalism of New York and Los Angeles art galleries to be changed as I was along Route 66.

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Read about his trip to the Precious Moments Chapel here.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kyleessary.com/2026/01/31/matthew-milliner-at-his-finest.html","date_published":"2026-01-31T11:09:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Kyle Essary","url":"https://www.kyleessary.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F115468.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KyleEssary"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-31 11:09","date_timestamp":1769857774,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82801395","content_html":"\n

Finished Reading: The Unseen Realm (Expanded Edition) by Michael S. Heiser 📚

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It had been a few years since I read the original. It’s been fascinating to watch how popular Heiser’s work has become. It’s good.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kyleessary.com/2026/01/25/finished-reading-the-unseen-realm.html","date_published":"2026-01-25T01:03:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Kyle Essary","url":"https://www.kyleessary.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F115468.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KyleEssary"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-25 01:03","date_timestamp":1769303024,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82659364","content_html":"

Fortnightly Health Update (23 January 2026): kyleessary.com

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Thanks to @cjhubbs for the recommendation. I read it all in one afternoon and evening. It hit close to home in its discussions of Tedd Tripp’s work. It offered an incisive critique well worth recommending to others.

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Finished Reading: The Myth of Good Christian Parenting by Marissa Franks Burt 📚

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