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For all of LinkedIn’s many problems, I am thankful for their hibernate option.

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I got a new desk treadmill and, whew, the change from a 0% incline to 5% is more significant than I imagined. Sweating for the first time in a long time!

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“By belonging to God you belong to his Church, which comes with certain duties and obligations. You have responsibilities to serve, to care for others, to worship, to participate in the life of the Church. This sounds like the loss of agency, but it’s actually the opportunity to act righteously.”

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I’m Free but Afraid by newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com

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Doers of the Word: marmanold.com

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What does it mean to be a “doer of the word”?

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What I'm Up To: marmanold.com

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People have to be misunderstanding the question, right? Like, how could you be Christian and not talk about God daily? This does not compute to me.
\n— Who Marries Whom? Faith, Partners, and the Unequally Yoked

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“Our obsession with optimizing the body and avoiding signs of aging is one manifestation of a covert gnostic belief that the body and its creaturely limits are inherently bad.”

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Polishing Kernels: Bodily Control as New Gnosis by Hayden Nesbit

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“Normal people aren’t running around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to automate every single part of their lives. Indeed, there are places in our lives where efficiency isn’t desirable.”

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Silicon Valley Has Forgotten What Normal People Want by Elizabeth Lopatto

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In reply to www.digitaltrends.com/movies/yo…

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The auto-dub feature drives me crazy! If I routinely watch non-English videos, it probably means I don’t need them translated! I wish there were an off switch.

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I’m very proud of this. Three pounds until a normal BMI. No dieting. Just walking and lifting. Hard consistent work is paying off! 💪

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“If you are going to provide me with a robot servant, I have a very clear bar: It’s gotta be at least as much bang for my buck as my dishwasher.”

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Silicon Valley Has Forgotten What Normal People Want by Elizabeth Lopatto

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“Within recent memory, people who made software and hardware understood their job was to serve their customer. It was to identify a need, and then fill it. But at some point following the financial crisis, would-be entrepreneurs got it into their heads that their job was to invent the future, and consumers’ job was to go along with that invented future.”

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Silicon Valley Has Forgotten What Normal People Want by Elizabeth Lopatto

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@JudsonGreene Beautiful.

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“It may feel unfair to have to negotiate an ancient theological theory designed to make war harder. But subjecting efficiency, lethality, and even victory to higher principles is precisely its purpose. It reminds us that even—especially—in wartime, God and God alone is our judge.”

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Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East

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“The truth is simple: our economic and social moment is in the hands of people who do not understand the power they wield.”

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The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’ ⇢ by ⌘ Permalink

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“Utilitarian calculations promise an end run around what we owe to God and neighbor, but this is a temptation we must resist. Just ends cannot excuse unjust means.”

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Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East

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“just war theory is meant to make war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient.”

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Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East

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@pxlnv Benches are gone because we as a nation have opted for an “open air” asylum policy. Instead of institutions to care for the mentally ill and addicts, we leave them alone to roam our streets.

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@philbowell This is exciting! I’m going to try it out.

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The hagiographies of Tim Cook are troubling.

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‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?” Then they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil upon them’ ”

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(2 Chronicles 7:21–22, RSV)

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What I'm Up To: marmanold.com

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“Masculinity means harnessing the natural power a man possesses and using it for the good of others around him.”

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Man Up! by Jeffrey Hemmer

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Currently reading: Man Up!: The Quest for Masculinity by Jeffrey Hemmer 📚 — Leading a group through this for the third time. Still a great book.

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I’m piloting Ignatius Press’s Catholic Study Bible this week. So far, it’s an improvement over my Oxford Study Bible.

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The impact of your family with kids attending a small church is bigger than you think. Kids change the entire vibe and encourage visitors with kids to stay. It’s a sacrifice with a huge impact for the Kingdom!

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“Though finding delight and joy in your career isn’t a bad idea, it becomes problematic when we believe it is the only suitable option.”

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Why Avocations Matter by Brianna Lambert

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“Where is the Anglican’s spiritual home most securely found?”

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Anglican Trajectories by Jay Thomas

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@vincent Awesome! Lifting is surprisingly rewarding, especially when you aren’t tracking or turning it into a game.

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@manton Required by a lot of workplaces. I doubt anyone is actively seeking it out.

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@mwerickson In the middle of that chapter now. Such a great book! I had to put it down because I was laughing in bed while my wife was trying to sleep.

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@frjonjordan Amen!

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@KyleEssary I’m glad to hear it was good. I think a Bible study I’m in is taking it as our next reading after we finish Jeremiah.

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@jonah Absolutely. — I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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@jonah Love it. This a good and worth-while read? I’ve had a lot of pressure on me of late to do the Ordinariate, so hot topic for me. (NB: I’m so fully English Catholic the arguments thus far seem so totally un-Catholic to me that I couldn’t fathom it.)

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@ReaderJohn It is. I can’t speak to the rest of it, but I like the first question. I needed a pallet cleanser after a pretty bleak secular book!

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@mineinmono Odd! Maybe Readwise doesn’t share source when it’s a PDF. It’s this lovely book. It’s a challenging book, but a great read so far. archive.org/details/c…

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@jonah When I started ministry among the poor and homeless I was told to use modern language and the NLT. Time and time again my readers were coming up with worn copies of the KJV. Seemed silly to use modern in that context. It was elitist to think they were too dumb or low class the for historic liturgy!

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@jonah Great essay. Until he started dissing older language. I’ve been using 1928 and 2019 TLE my whole ministry. Never once has the language made us elitists or unwelcoming.

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@manton I truly wish Apple would bring back the iPod. Right timing. I buy one for the kids and one each for me and my wife.

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@KyleEssary he’s added to my “to read” list for sure. Super interesting idea I’d like to go further into.

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@ReaderJohn Congratulations! It’s a slow go, but totally worth it.

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@jonah We are piloting a return to the traditional one-year lectionary. So far, so good.

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@jonah Truth be told, they should have just left out the ordinal from the printing. No province should be ordaining from a private publishing house’s prayer book.

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@jonah Seriously!?! Why would they make this change. Ugh. I like the IE and use it for daily prayer. The whole point was a plain 62 with minor word updates and revised state prayers.

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@eludom Exactly! It was cold and we were stuck in a room together anyways, so we just kept reading.

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@eludom We started at “we’re not sending her to public & it’s only kindergarten so let’s save on tuition” and quickly moved towards “we’re incredibly passionate about learning and can’t imagine another place that would give her the freedom to learn.” Now, all three are homeschooled and we love it! Honestly, we feel like we’re finally getting an education along with them. So many books I’d never’ve had the opportunity to read!

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@mineinmono Same to y’all! This ice is scary stuff.

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@marmanold I will also agree with some of the commenters that it’s unintentional sometimes when you have a bi-lingual home. In our house we speak of Wien and Muenchen and Augsburg. Our light Denglish makes this common and often slips out even outside of home.

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@help How would I follow this Bluesky profile? bsky.app/profile/n…

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I’ve tried several ways, but can’t seem to get it to work.

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