Yesterday’s service included a performance of Dvořák’s ‘Largo’ by the handbells and flute. Then the choir sang a Moses Hogan tune (‘Stand By Me’). All in between the youth choir and an organ solo. Just an ordinary Sunday at an old mainline church like the one by your house (this one is by my house).

I should be more humble about the august institution of the Calvin University Chimes and my own small stitch in its tapestry. I *should* be more humble about it. But I shalln’t.

You might say, “Isn’t it a tad cliché for a newspaper staffed by budding leftists and social provocateurs to use that song as an anthem?” to which I’d reply that simply because your college or university had an inferior student publication doesn’t give you license to throw pebbles at ours.

Some big news to share: I will not be coming out with a book again in 2026.

You can say, consistently, that both an absolute and an Electoral College majority of Americans elected that administration and also that it subsequently acted criminally against the interests of that majority, and thus invalidating its decisions and actions upholds—not overturns—their vote.

I assume the guy will issue a blanket pardon to them all, and everyone in his administration. It will be necessary to neutralize that, and I suggest the approach that the entire organization is a criminal enterprise whose actions and decisions are legally invalidated.

Don’t share uncropped screenshots, location data, travel information, personal ID, etc. etc.

Thanks to AI and state intelligence services, the social web has become NYC in the late 70s where you have to carry yourself with the assumption that every passerby in the street might want to mug you.

Deciduous trees can teach us about withdrawal of energy for self preservation in the way they pull nutrients back from their leaves as sunlight and warmth decrease yet leave splendor and beauty behind—despite the seasonal death of the leaves—as a bookmark of the future life to come again.