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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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You will have to read the article to find out why a rock badger is the thumbnail 😂 thanks to @plough.bsky.social and the wonderful Caitrin Keiper who edited the piece.
“I’ve become less fixated on what God might have planned for me personally than on the universal Christian calling to love my neighbor as myself and the winding road toward understanding what that really means and allowing it to change me.” —Holly Berkley Fletcher
What Is a Christian Calling
A child of overseas missionaries asks how we know what our calling is and whether it really comes from God.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“I have friends who think that our society is destroying itself through sheer hedonism. I am far more pessimistic than that.” My latest book column for @plough.bsky.social is fun, I promise!!
“‘Productivity’ as our culture constructs it can be as narcotizing as the infinite scroll: you distract yourself from thinking about what you’re doing by adding to that satisfying little list of things that you did.” @philipchristman.bsky.social
Book Tour: World Enough and Time
Phil Christman reviews Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation by George Musser, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity by David Bessis, Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield, and Making Ti...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The great John Williams is still composing, and attending a premiere tonight of a new piano concerto of his.

A livestream of the concert should start around 8 p.m. EDT on WAMC:
www.wamc.org/listen-live-...

Background:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/a...
John Williams Hasn’t Stopped Composing. His Latest? A Piano Concerto.
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The question below was inspired by the priest whom I heard say this today:
June 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"Have compassion on those who suffer from any grief or trouble; / that they may be delivered from their distress."
April 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM