Samuel James
@samueldjames.bsky.social
Author (Digital Liturgies). Editor @ Crossway.
I gotta be real: as much as bot accounts became a problem on Twitter/X, I feel like they’re way *worse* here.
It looks like at least a full third of my followers are not actual people
It looks like at least a full third of my followers are not actual people
February 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I gotta be real: as much as bot accounts became a problem on Twitter/X, I feel like they’re way *worse* here.
It looks like at least a full third of my followers are not actual people
It looks like at least a full third of my followers are not actual people
Never ever forget that the inhumane despair facing so many of us was enabled, not first by Silicon Valley or activists, but by scientism.
You don’t hate scientism enough.
You don’t hate scientism enough.
January 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Never ever forget that the inhumane despair facing so many of us was enabled, not first by Silicon Valley or activists, but by scientism.
You don’t hate scientism enough.
You don’t hate scientism enough.
Really shocked Harbaugh accepted that 2nd and 30 holding penalty. You’re just begging for some kind of defensive penalty by doing that….
January 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Really shocked Harbaugh accepted that 2nd and 30 holding penalty. You’re just begging for some kind of defensive penalty by doing that….
My latest substack is about modern malaise. How is it that in a Tinder culture we don’t touch each other? And in a pluralistic society we don’t talk to each other? What can the church say about this?
www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
A Christian apologetic of malaise
www.digitalliturgies.net
January 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My latest substack is about modern malaise. How is it that in a Tinder culture we don’t touch each other? And in a pluralistic society we don’t talk to each other? What can the church say about this?
www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
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IMO this was *the* graphic of 2024
January 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
IMO this was *the* graphic of 2024
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local news headline that is indisputably, eternally true
December 30, 2024 at 4:58 PM
local news headline that is indisputably, eternally true
I had the privilege of reading this book in draft stage. It is superb. Even if you think you know Keller’s spiritual theology well, the organization and context Matt gives it makes it fresh and newly encouraging. Cannot recommend this more.
www.amazon.com/Tim-Keller-C...
www.amazon.com/Tim-Keller-C...
Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel [Smethurst, Matt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
www.amazon.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I had the privilege of reading this book in draft stage. It is superb. Even if you think you know Keller’s spiritual theology well, the organization and context Matt gives it makes it fresh and newly encouraging. Cannot recommend this more.
www.amazon.com/Tim-Keller-C...
www.amazon.com/Tim-Keller-C...
Kids, have a seat. Now. I know you’ve all been reading the news lately. But I have something to tell you, about a pardon for all offenses that’s much more important, and comes from a much more powerful Person…
December 2, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Kids, have a seat. Now. I know you’ve all been reading the news lately. But I have something to tell you, about a pardon for all offenses that’s much more important, and comes from a much more powerful Person…
10000%
The amazing thing about having a second child (or third, or fourth) is that you find yourself not dividing love between the two children: rather; the presence of the second deepens your love for your first, without diminishing love for the second. It was unthinkable until it is.
November 30, 2024 at 5:30 PM
10000%
Frankincense
Myrrh
Gold
Prophet
Priest
King
?
Myrrh
Gold
Prophet
Priest
King
?
November 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Frankincense
Myrrh
Gold
Prophet
Priest
King
?
Myrrh
Gold
Prophet
Priest
King
?
Confession: I like John Wayne, always have, and I think Du Mez’s book is a mess that got a pass unjustly.
November 29, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Confession: I like John Wayne, always have, and I think Du Mez’s book is a mess that got a pass unjustly.
Thanksgiving meets Christmas.
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk. 2:11)
“Unto you.” Most precious words in that verse.
We give thanks for what we have. The angels told us: we have Jesus.
Forever grateful.
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk. 2:11)
“Unto you.” Most precious words in that verse.
We give thanks for what we have. The angels told us: we have Jesus.
Forever grateful.
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Thanksgiving meets Christmas.
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk. 2:11)
“Unto you.” Most precious words in that verse.
We give thanks for what we have. The angels told us: we have Jesus.
Forever grateful.
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk. 2:11)
“Unto you.” Most precious words in that verse.
We give thanks for what we have. The angels told us: we have Jesus.
Forever grateful.
No conference or retreat ever unearths more about your marriage than moving furniture does
November 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
No conference or retreat ever unearths more about your marriage than moving furniture does
The doldrums of a 10+ year old marriage and kids who are growing up really do limit how self-focused adults can be. That’s a bad reason to blow up your life, and a good reason to let go of therapeutic selfishness.
Good column:
Good column:
My latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The rise of the reckless divorce columnist
Newspapers like the Times and the Daily Mail are constantly pushing pieces by women celebrating their divorces. It’s not good for us.
www.spectator.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 1:54 PM
The doldrums of a 10+ year old marriage and kids who are growing up really do limit how self-focused adults can be. That’s a bad reason to blow up your life, and a good reason to let go of therapeutic selfishness.
Good column:
Good column:
Most savage JJ Abrams subtweet I’ve ever seen
There is glory in the unexpressed thought.
November 25, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Most savage JJ Abrams subtweet I’ve ever seen
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I said this over on the other site not long ago and I’m convinced we’re going to continue to see it play out.
Progressive Christians will end up being laggards on these issues as they become more important and they won’t just be lagging behind conservative Christians, but behind secular liberals.
Progressive Christians will end up being laggards on these issues as they become more important and they won’t just be lagging behind conservative Christians, but behind secular liberals.
November 23, 2024 at 2:59 PM
I said this over on the other site not long ago and I’m convinced we’re going to continue to see it play out.
Progressive Christians will end up being laggards on these issues as they become more important and they won’t just be lagging behind conservative Christians, but behind secular liberals.
Progressive Christians will end up being laggards on these issues as they become more important and they won’t just be lagging behind conservative Christians, but behind secular liberals.
An interesting hypothesis from
Ben Sixsmith: Red-pilled misogyny meets a psychological need for men who are frustrated and ashamed by their porn use. Gives both rationalization—“women want this anyway”—and a sense of escape.
Ben Sixsmith: Red-pilled misogyny meets a psychological need for men who are frustrated and ashamed by their porn use. Gives both rationalization—“women want this anyway”—and a sense of escape.
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 PM
An interesting hypothesis from
Ben Sixsmith: Red-pilled misogyny meets a psychological need for men who are frustrated and ashamed by their porn use. Gives both rationalization—“women want this anyway”—and a sense of escape.
Ben Sixsmith: Red-pilled misogyny meets a psychological need for men who are frustrated and ashamed by their porn use. Gives both rationalization—“women want this anyway”—and a sense of escape.
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Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.
November 22, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.
61 years ago today three men died on the same day: John F Kennedy, Alduous Huxley, and CS Lewis.
Camelot is gone. The Brave New World is eating itself. But Narnia remains.
A piece I wrote last year for World: wng.org/opinions/a-p...
Camelot is gone. The Brave New World is eating itself. But Narnia remains.
A piece I wrote last year for World: wng.org/opinions/a-p...
A prophetic voice rings out
Samuel D. James | Sixty years later, C.S. Lewis speaks to the needs of our times
wng.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:21 PM
61 years ago today three men died on the same day: John F Kennedy, Alduous Huxley, and CS Lewis.
Camelot is gone. The Brave New World is eating itself. But Narnia remains.
A piece I wrote last year for World: wng.org/opinions/a-p...
Camelot is gone. The Brave New World is eating itself. But Narnia remains.
A piece I wrote last year for World: wng.org/opinions/a-p...
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Modern “secularization” can be seen from one angle as the rejection of higher times, and the positing of time as purely profane.
I don’t know about you
But I’m feeling twenty-two!
I don’t know about you
But I’m feeling twenty-two!
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Modern “secularization” can be seen from one angle as the rejection of higher times, and the positing of time as purely profane.
I don’t know about you
But I’m feeling twenty-two!
I don’t know about you
But I’m feeling twenty-two!
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Our language has lost its constitutive power. This means that we can deal instrumentally with realities around us, but their deeper meaning is ignored and often invisible to us.
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Our language has lost its constitutive power. This means that we can deal instrumentally with realities around us, but their deeper meaning is ignored and often invisible to us.
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
Congrats to Judge Judy on her forthcoming nomination for attorney general
BREAKING
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name for nomination as US Attorney General.
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name for nomination as US Attorney General.
November 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Congrats to Judge Judy on her forthcoming nomination for attorney general
It’s just hard to expel the idea from my mind that the Antioch Statement exists for no other reason than that certain pastors have realized the checks they’ve been cashing were signed by genuinely wicked people, and the goal now is to let friends know that you know that, without losing the checks
November 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
It’s just hard to expel the idea from my mind that the Antioch Statement exists for no other reason than that certain pastors have realized the checks they’ve been cashing were signed by genuinely wicked people, and the goal now is to let friends know that you know that, without losing the checks