{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Scott Stilson","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/scottstilson","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1619169","username":"scottstilson","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":7,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png"},"items":[{"id":"94477749","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/uploads/2026/micah-6-8-t-shirt-from-brethren-press.jpg\"></a></p>\n me: \n<p>It just registered with me that the shirt I just bought left off the God part. I confess I feel a little disappointed about that.</p>\n friend: \n<p>I did notice that. And then I noticed that I actually like that. And then I spent some time pondering—feeling some shame for being negatively associated with bad...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/22/me-it-just-registered-with.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/22/me-it-just-registered-with.html","date_published":"2026-07-22T18:56:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-22 18:56","date_timestamp":1784746585,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94477205","content_html":"<p>“That vivid memory and the cool, vast touch of night wind awakened him. His soul came out of hiding” (Ursula K. Le Guin, <em><a href=\"https://www.ursulakleguin.com/dispossessed\">The Dispossessed</a></em>).</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/22/that-vivid-memory-and-the.html","date_published":"2026-07-22T18:45:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-22 18:45","date_timestamp":1784745944,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93920321","content_html":"<p>Some Christians who take a traditionalist line about same-sex erotic behavior are quick to supply extrabiblical context to their exegesis on other matters in the name of preserving biblical inerrancy (e.g., <a href=\"https://www.gotquestions.org/food-sacrificed-idols.html#:~:text=This%20is%20a%20different%20situation%20from%20what%20Paul%20was%20dealing%20with%20in%20Corinth.\">GotQuestions on the question of eating meat sacrificed to idols</a>) or defending current practices that...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/13/some-christians-who-take-a.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/13/some-christians-who-take-a.html","date_published":"2026-07-13T11:02:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-13 11:02","date_timestamp":1783940550,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93900394","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/uploads/2026/bela-bartok.jpg\"></a></p>\n<p>Béla Bartók is an imp.</p>\n<p>I lack the vocabulary and leisure to write much about the cracklingly <em>alive</em> music of the great 20th-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, seven hours of whose greatest music can be found in <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KMOUun8PpJoaU9g4t9CO1?si=9ed6a6c93ef34de7\">this playlist</a>. But what I can tell you is that he comes across to me as an intensely focused...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/12/bla-bartk-is-an-imp.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/12/bla-bartk-is-an-imp.html","date_published":"2026-07-13T00:24:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-13 00:24","date_timestamp":1783902257,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93762964","content_html":"<p>I’m only sitting here entertaining myself by myself because everyone else is. Oh, the humanity!</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/10/im-only-sitting-here-entertaining.html","date_published":"2026-07-10T10:45:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-10 10:45","date_timestamp":1783680324,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93662223","content_html":"<p>It never occurred to me how head-turningly paradoxical this command from Galatians is: “Become slaves to one another” (<a href=\"https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205:12-14&amp;version=NRSVA\">5:13</a>). The very nature of a slave relationship is that the power is unipolar. How can slavery be mutual? (There’s certainly an antisocial, obsessional, probably erotic way of interpreting...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/08/it-never-occurred-to-me.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/08/it-never-occurred-to-me.html","date_published":"2026-07-08T18:34:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-08 18:34","date_timestamp":1783535642,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93618250","content_html":"<p>I have attention surplus disorder.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/07/i-have-attention-surplus-disorder.html","date_published":"2026-07-08T01:37:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-08 01:37","date_timestamp":1783474670,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93556816","content_html":"<p>Just finished reading (in one sitting): <em>Miracles &amp; Marvels: A Life-Long Love Affair with God</em> (2024) by my neighbor <a href=\"https://centrepeace.org/posts/thank-you-marie-hamilton\">Marie Hamilton</a>. A brief, guileless, autobiographical and episodic account of thirty healings, improbable moments, timely pairings of prayer-and-answer, divine taps on the shoulder, audible...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/06/just-finished-reading-in-one.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/06/just-finished-reading-in-one.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T01:07:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 01:07","date_timestamp":1783386446,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93401461","content_html":"<p>Charlie, Carla, and I bumped into the sons of <a href=\"https://anabaptistperspectives.org/people/bryant-martin/\">Bryant</a> &amp; Lynelle Martin and <a href=\"https://possumsprojects.com/\">Hector</a> &amp; Lois Troyer at the sheep farm swimming hole this evening. They were enjoying the diving board they had tapconned into the concrete pylon on the east bank probably sometime in the spring. Charming, conversationally able boys,...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/03/charlie-carla-and-i-bumped.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/03/charlie-carla-and-i-bumped.html","date_published":"2026-07-04T01:36:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-04 01:36","date_timestamp":1783128964,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93307814","content_html":"<p>Just finished reading: <a href=\"https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802874610/paul-and-the-power-of-grace/\"><em>Paul and the Power of Grace</em></a> (2020) by John M. G. Barclay. A 70% reduction for laymen of Barclay’s well-received, paradigm-establishing doorstop Paul and the Gift (2015), which through a brief survey of the anthropology of gifts followed by close examinations of Paul’s letters to the...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/02/just-finished-reading-paul-and.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/02/just-finished-reading-paul-and.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T12:29:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 12:29","date_timestamp":1782995378,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93088964","content_html":"<p>“Love your neighbor as yourself.” I’ve always taken this to mean something like “regard and act toward those around you as if they and their good are as important to you as you and your good.” We can call that an <em>equivalential</em> reading. It’s probably a valid way to take it. But a passing remark in John...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/28/love-your-neighbor-as-yourself.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/28/love-your-neighbor-as-yourself.html","date_published":"2026-06-28T20:31:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-28 20:31","date_timestamp":1782678672,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93088249","content_html":"<p>“Justice is patriotic,” intoned Bonnie Kline Smeltzer from the pulpit at University Baptist and Brethren Church today. I was this close to shouting “Amen!” I totally shoulda.</p>\n<p>(It helped that she was wearing a one-of-a-kind, red-white-and-blue <a href=\"https://freesubu.org/\">Free Subu</a> button she had handmade last week. Appropriation of Old...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/28/justice-is-patriotic-intoned-bonnie.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/28/justice-is-patriotic-intoned-bonnie.html","date_published":"2026-06-28T20:19:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-28 20:19","date_timestamp":1782677997,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92700068","content_html":"<p>Just re-listened to: <em><a href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=3a52d14fb15abeb5&amp;sxsrf=APpeQnvrBwtiKUxgJVeH0PfkyHKe_oBybA:1782175310618&amp;q=goes+west+william+tyler&amp;source=lnms&amp;fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8c4u0nXx4bEIpwm1lnNH832VTJOOCxW_fyN-Q_ezyf8gKCPb62Sv4Y60wQDsMxJw_GUn1N2yN6o6cIH09xVUI5GF-pNWYoKsCUVySpQOvnQdunLxiNe0Y1cGZ5zsE-RLc0z6ZpEol2NtSC2nZSNJOJ6QAyy6jC9jcQ1wmpSuA44diPyiSl90JtTyRA1mI1cwKtznfGzg&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwic88OykJyVAxW9KlkFHTEAKb4Q0pQJegQIERAB&amp;biw=1512&amp;bih=861&amp;dpr=2\">Goes West</a></em> (2019) by William Tyler. Poppy, lilting guitar Americana, like so many Alison Krauss tracks, but without the singing and with drums. In other words, hold music nonetheless capable under the right conditions—which apparently include doing the dishes alone on an unusually cool,...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/22/just-relistened-to-goes-west.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/22/just-relistened-to-goes-west.html","date_published":"2026-06-23T00:47:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-23 00:47","date_timestamp":1782175636,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92603341","content_html":"<p>My basic problem with spontaneity—generating my own and fielding that of others—is one of greed: I learned early on that the only way to get done all the things one wants to get done is to fully regiment one’s time. I got no time for whim!</p>\n<p>But I say to myself (as I’ve said before): I need to let go. It’s “<a href=\"https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20cor%2016:13-14&amp;version=NASB\">do...</a></p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/21/my-basic-problem-with-spontaneitygenerating.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/21/my-basic-problem-with-spontaneitygenerating.html","date_published":"2026-06-21T13:52:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-21 13:52","date_timestamp":1782049950,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92491716","content_html":"<p>May the scales of how I spend the leisure that’ll temporarily open up during Éa’s upcoming absence and then permanently open up in 2028 tip heavily toward <em>doing</em> good over enjoying good—and in forms that are highly altruistic, that make sense only in light of discipleship to Jesus and hope for resurrection,...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/19/may-the-scales-of-how.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/19/may-the-scales-of-how.html","date_published":"2026-06-19T12:11:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-19 12:11","date_timestamp":1781871072,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92432592","content_html":"<p><span class=\"lyrics\"><a href=\"https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%206:22-38&amp;version=NASB\">You goad me</a>.<br>\nBut to what?<br>\nIt’s easy picking<br>\nEasy sticking<br>\nWhen I have a calling. </span>✏️ 🎤 🎵</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/18/you-goad-me-but-to.html","date_published":"2026-06-18T15:01:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-18 15:01","date_timestamp":1781794909,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92228068","content_html":"<p>Theoretically, it’s not only possible to hold orthodox (or, if <a href=\"https://www.dwcongdon.com/project/who-is-a-true-christian-contesting-religious-identity-in-american-culture/\">you prefer</a>, traditional) theological views in one hand and progressive social and political views in the other, but also, in an abstract, platonic, logical sense, more probable than not, all else being equal. That the combination appears rare in...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/15/theoretically-it-is-more-than.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/15/theoretically-it-is-more-than.html","date_published":"2026-06-15T16:16:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 16:16","date_timestamp":1781540210,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91799715","content_html":"<p>That anyone accomplishes anything at all at home after a full day at work is cause to feel impressed.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/08/that-anyone-accomplishes-anything-at.html","date_published":"2026-06-09T01:28:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-09 01:28","date_timestamp":1780968502,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91751335","content_html":"<p>Good enough is good enough, I thought to myself about my own understanding of the purposes and mechanisms of the Cross of Christ as I leafed through a copy of Denny Weaver’s <a href=\"https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802864376/the-nonviolent-atonement-second-edition/\"><em>The Nonviolent Atonement</em></a> and came face to face with the fact that I’ve probably read well under 1% of what thoughtful people have...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/08/good-enough-is-good-enough.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/08/good-enough-is-good-enough.html","date_published":"2026-06-08T12:10:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-08 12:10","date_timestamp":1780920655,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91500804","content_html":"<p>Descriptive doxastic pluralism is enough to get this doxastic monist down. Still, I grant its inevitability and can get by. But <em>normative</em> doxastic pluralism beggars belief and grieves me deeply. It is a capitulation to individualism and an erasure of accountability. There <em>is</em> a Truth. I could be wrong about...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/03/the-pervasive-phenomenological-fact-of.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/06/03/the-pervasive-phenomenological-fact-of.html","date_published":"2026-06-04T00:11:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-04 00:11","date_timestamp":1780531884,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91074354","content_html":"<p>“Simply put, we long for Judgment Day because Judgment Day is good news.”</p>\n<p>— <a href=\"https://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2026/05/hell-and-evangelism-part-6-gods-gonna.html\">Richard Beck</a>, in harmony with the second half of <a href=\"https://scottstilson.substack.com/p/i-look-forward-to-seeing-you\">my “I look forward to seeing You” sermon</a>, which is itself a knowing echo of the third chapter of Dale Allison’s winsome, thoughtful <a href=\"https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802871183/night-comes/\"><em>Night Comes</em></a>, entitled “Judgment and Partiality,”...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/05/28/simply-put-we-long-for.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/05/28/simply-put-we-long-for.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T12:41:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-28 12:41","date_timestamp":1779972072,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90837931","content_html":"<p>Just watched: <a href=\"https://www.miramax.com/movie/there-will-be-blood/\"><em>There Will Be Blood</em></a> (2007), written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. In an epic cage match between capitalist rapacity and religious charlatanry, who wins? Duh. Do we need to ask?</p>\n<p>As much a pleasure it is to watch Daniel Day-Lewis do anything, including his all-time-great villain work...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/05/24/just-watched-there-will-be.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/05/24/just-watched-there-will-be.html","date_published":"2026-05-24T18:52:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-24 18:52","date_timestamp":1779648741,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90763762","content_html":"<p>The key to being interpersonally curious is this: “In humility of mind, regard others as more important than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3).</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/05/23/the-key-to-being-interpersonally.html","date_published":"2026-05-23T10:45:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-23 10:45","date_timestamp":1779533117,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88649958","content_html":"<p>Just watched: <a href=\"https://www.criterion.com/films/603-charade?srsltid=AfmBOor7jDZ4l7Lmi3z_iYWrKO-bLShWFuy311gedDUYdvvEScMT3BAC\"><em>Charade</em></a> (1963). Having <a href=\"https://letterboxd.com/actor/audrey-hepburn/\">these</a> <a href=\"https://letterboxd.com/actor/cary-grant/\">two</a> all-time most charming American film icons together on the same silver screen would likely have been enough to qualify this thriller-comedy-romance as a classic. Yet here they have at their disposal not only their own abundant charisma and sense of timing, but...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/04/20/just-watched-charade-having-these.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/04/20/just-watched-charade-having-these.html","date_published":"2026-04-20T17:43:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 17:43","date_timestamp":1776706998,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88628695","content_html":"<p><span class=\"lyrics\">I thought last time was the last time<br>\nBut you did it again?<br>\nI told you if you did it<br>\nThat would be the end </span>✏️ 🎤 🎵</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/04/20/i-thought-last-time-was.html","date_published":"2026-04-20T11:43:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 11:43","date_timestamp":1776685432,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"38398501","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mwerickson\">@mwerickson</a> Does The Lord of the Rings count?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/scottstilson/38398501","date_published":"2024-05-28T15:00:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-05-28 15:00","date_timestamp":1716908405,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}