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@ablerism Thanks!

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Today Becky and I celebrate 28 years of marriage. Thankful. Planning a low-key day and an outing with the kids tonight. We’ll find space for a special night out next week. Such is life!

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Watching the Fever - Mercury #WNBA game tonight. Officiating is just so awful. Terrible calls on the floor, way too many long game stoppages for “instant” replay reviews, no idea what these refs are looking at. If the WNBA wants to be a legit league they have to fix this.

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2026 Reads: There is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm 📚

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Fantastic concept, uneven execution. Still gripping and unlike anything I’ve ever read.

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Justin Steele is out for his second season. Cade Horton out for the season. Matthew Boyd’s been out for a while. Jameson Taillon is out until after the all-star break. And now Cabrera? Shota’s the only guy left, and he’s been on the IL already this year. Bad luck? Bad training?

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#MLB #Cubs

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Oh geez, Edward Cabrera just pulled a groin or something covering 1st base and they’re gonna bring the cart out to help him off the field. How many more starting pitchers to the #Cubs have who can go down to injury? This is bonkers. #MLB

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Quick overnight trip to Phoenix for a work offsite today. Still 100F after 9 PM. Oof.

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Six years out of evangelicalism: chrishubbs.com

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@isaacgreene I had never read either of those before. Thanks for sharing them! “Love’s austere and lonely offices”… what a turn of phrase, and what a truth.

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2026 Reads: The Book of Love A Better Way to Read the Bible by Richard Beck 📚

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Not perfect, but very, very good.

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@sundogplanets It does when you airlock somebody!

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My wife and daughter were supposed to be home tonight, DCA -> CLT -> CID. Flight into CLT got diverted to RDU thanks to storms. Might get to CLT really late tonight. Best rebooking option is tomorrow evening to ORD and then I get to drive 4 hours over there to pick them up. What a mess!

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My random playlist has decided it’s a choral music morning. I just got Palestrina, Rachmaninoff, and now Vaughn Williams all in a row. Lovely.

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The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2026 so far

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This list was longer than I expected… and gave me several to add to my library holds list.

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@samthielman.com I was gonna argue that I wasn’t in your list, and then I realized I a leftie that works for a big defense contractor… 2 out of 3 is close enough I guess.

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@chrishubbs.com Oh this isn’t appellate. We need a similar fix for first level courts, too.

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“To read the Bible as a book of love, we have to trust that nothing can separate us from the love of God, not even our interpretive mistakes.”

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Richard Beck, from his new book The Book of Love. Boom.

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@aaronjsmith.net Yeah I’m gonna be thinking about it for a long while.

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@aaronjsmith.net I had a really interesting discussion with my therapist recently about my incessant need to self-edit as I talk, and how it might be tied up in my religious roots where expressing truth just right is of utmost importance, as is not disappointing anyone in authority. Oof.

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@ronguest We’re in the same boat with my daughter. She has her top couple choices identified. Just gotta wait for Common App to open and then for early action.

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@drose It was a good day.

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Wordle 1,823 3/6*

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I fear to become the old guy posting about the weather, but how can you not appreciate this morning? A splash of rain overnight to freshen things; clear blue sky and crisp air only in the 50s as the sun came up. For June in Iowa, today is a treat.

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Pete Crow-Armstrong gets a single to complete hitting for the cycle tonight against the Rockies…. then immediately gets picked off first base. In the 7th inning of a one-run game. #sigh #Cubs #MLB

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@jsonbecker Yep, that about sums it up.

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@aleen If you’re gonna wear them every day you better be picky about them!

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Wife and youngest daughter are out on a trip this week, which means the middle kid and I are holding down the fort. Had a nice day today - the kid made dinner, then I spent the evening out with a fire in the firepit and a good book.

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I have never read any Brandon Sanderson before starting Mistborn: The Final Empire yesterday.

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So far it seems workmanlike almost to the point of being formulaic, but I’m enjoying the experience enough to want to keep on reading.

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@chrishubbs.com Same, brother. Same.

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“I was good enough to serve [the church], but not good enough to care for. And care is what I needed.”

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And with that Aaron J. Smith perfectly summed up my experience of two decades as an adult in the evangelical church.

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theclutteredmouth.com/sent-into…

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2026 Reads: And the Dragons Do Come Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America by Sim Butler 📚

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A practical, honest voice. A lot of feelings that are familiar to me as the parent of a nonbinary kid.

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2026 Reads: Prairie Fires The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser 📚

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Having grown up with the Little House books, this thoroughly-researched biography puts them in quite a different light.

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@lindsayfickas.bsky.social Congratulations and good on yall! My wife and I were married at 21 as well, we’re gonna hit 28 years in a couple weeks. Wouldn’t trade it for anything!

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An amazing collapse by the Spurs. 76 points in the first half and only 30 in the second. Kudos to the Knicks for hanging in there. Brunson just refused to be stopped.

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@drose Well done!

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@drose Gotcha covered.

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Wordle 1,816 3/6*

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⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
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\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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#YoungPups FTW!

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This just in: #WNBA officiating is still hot garbage.

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@keakealani.bsky.social We’re in violent agreement at this point. :-) I pray that the journey out can be easy for more people. Blessings on your faithful service.

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@keakealani.bsky.social I hear you. And I am also thankful for people who were patient with me and helped me understand there was a bigger, better, more beautiful way to understand the scripture than my evangelical teachers had let me believe.

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@keakealani.bsky.social Same. 100%.

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@keakealani.bsky.social When the “weirdo evangelical sect” is something as big as, say, the SBC, and their teachers assure you that the Bible, understood properly, does in fact say that, what else are you, the good evangelical, supposed to think?

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@keakealani.bsky.social Completely agree. Didn’t mean to dismiss @keakealani.bsky.social‘s assertion! Just trying to note that evangelicalism’s claims are loud and strong and the baseline view that many are coming from.

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@keakealani.bsky.social It’s gonna be a life-long process for me. I spent 3-4 years away from the church and sorting out a lot of stuff on my own. I never stopped wanting to follow Jesus but for a while that didn’t look like any church I knew.

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@keakealani.bsky.social Evangelicalism 100% purports it to be that. And insists that you can’t really trust the Bible at all if you don’t see it that way. “If you can’t believe Genesis 1 really means 6 literal 24-hour days, how can you believe what the Gospels say about Jesus?” is a thing I’ve heard more than once.

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2026 Reads: The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor 📚

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@chrishubbs.com I didn’t really start running until I was about 30. And didn’t make significant time improvements until I lost a lot of weight a couple years ago. I’m really enjoying it now!

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Ran the 10k this morning as a part of the Cedar Rapids Marathon Weekend. 21st overall, first in my age group, and improved my PR by more than 3 minutes!

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2026 Reads: God’s Homecoming by N. T. Wright 📚

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Wright’s prose is clear as ever, his theology fine, but he leaves some big gaps that leave me less than satisfied overall.

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@drose #YoungPups FTW!

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Wordle 1,813 3/6*

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🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
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The Cubs disaster continues…

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sports.apple.com/event/umc…

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@mwerickson Wonderful book.

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