My friends care deeply about what the bible says; they were often drawn to the reformed tradition precisely because of how seriously it takes scripture. But I don’t know where to start sometimes because our stories of what the bible says are so far apart.

To be clear I totally agree with your assessment! I agree that we need to present exegetically grounded, expansive, and compelling alternatives to the CN zeitgeist. CN appeals to a lot of people who should know better, but are learn their theology by cultural osmosis.

And then you end up either challenging covenant theology entirely, or splitting hairs over the details of administration, and neither of those are easy to do cohesively (not least bc of existing diversity in the reformed camp).

Once you’re committed to the idea that Israel and the church are notionally identical for the purpose of inheriting the land and seed covenants and their administration, I think it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that the church inherits geopolitical responsibilities and obligations.

Exegesis (and praxis). The challenge is that so much of the ideology is based on particular ways of reading the Bible, assumptions about what Jesus came to be and do, and what the church is and should be be doing until he returns.

I think where he’s really attractive is with people who have already accepted by osmosis a belief in the possibility of a christianity-as-worldview, independent of Christ and the Word. Christ exists merely as a provider of redemption and a nominal figurehead for the religion of the State.

I haven’t and probably won’t read Wolfe but my understanding is that he’s trying to bridge the gap a bit. Most of my friends, especially those in the second category, find his exegesis and arguments bad, even if they do happen to hold similar conclusions.

Ehhhh there are really two camps, the 2k folks who tend to bring forward historical views of Christendom w/ nat law ethics, and the presuppositionalists who are more in the tradition of Kuyper/ Van Til/Bahnsen. Most of the reconstructionists fall into the second camp.

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but what else is out there that isn't somehow WORSE?!!!

(Oh and apparently going through QB support is also garbage, because $elder apparently tried that **multiple** times before finally calling me 🤦‍♀️)

I've seen this happen successfully for multiple folks & been tapped for a PM role myself. But I've seen what successful PM calendars look like lol.

I think one of the natural directions is product manager. IMO the natural confluence of data interpretation, communication, and multiple business domain expertise makes it an obvious next step.

(Part of why I think Product is a natural home for a data analytics team.)

youtube, unlisted?

I've been feeling a dearth of appropriate hymnody these days. I'm nearly to the point of trying to apply my own mediocre composition skills.

Arguing from a position you disagree with. Using a mop bucket. Knife skills. Mise en place. Kneading dough. Assembling a PC. How to fold an origami swan. Knitting/crochet. Using a sewing machine. How to clean gutters. Food safety. Check tire pressure / change a tire. Wrap a gift. Mail a letter.

Doing a tax return. Safely lighting/building a fire. Taking care of a plant. Exiting vim. Changing a car's head/tail light. Cleaning a vacuum cleaner. Setting up a tent. Following a recipe. Making coffee. Writing docs (I'm sure you've seen the peanut butter sandwich example).