I’d forgotten these!!! 💯 adding them to the “home from college” watchlist with my daughter.

I have zero idea what any of this means but still liked it, as is appropriate for my wifely role.

…and over when women should and should
not submit to their husbands.

🙃 I respect that opinion. The movies were imperfect to be sure.

And I haven't read the Emily of New Moon books. Sounds like I should!

I thought it too dark and revisionist at first. But a friend shifted my thinking when she observed it was more like modern fan fiction. Then it was 🤯🔥.

Same. 🙂👋♥️

Ohhh- say more! A friend and I had been trading thoughts about AoGG and the “Anne with an E” Netflix series. I get the feeling there’s more to her than her books reveal.

"So I give thanks for our deep coinherence
Inwoven in the web of God’s own grace,
Pulling us through the grave and gate of death.

I thank him for the truth behind appearance,
I thank him for his light in every face,
I thank him for you all, with every breath.

3/3

"Our interweavings on a deeper level,
The modes of life embodied souls can share,
The unguessed blessings of our being here,
The warp and weft that no one can unravel.

2/3

@tlberglund.bsky.social says take a train to Heidelberg. 🙂🇩🇪

SO REAL.

Friend!!!! 👋♥️

Post script - not sure why @sometimesalight hasn't made her way here yet. Might have something to do with her being enrolled at Duke getting some serious theological education or something.

Adding this:My question is what to make of the many purportedly serious theologians and/or theological influencers who so uncritically interested / affirming of him in the first place.

Maybe our assumptions about what makes for a serious theologian worth following and heeding are a problem too. 6/6

"To quote the classic film, Ratatouille, "Anyone can cook"--but you still actually have to be able to cook. Just being "anyone" does not make you a better cook than a trained chef any more than being a trained chef means that you can cook." 5/6 (@sometimesalight)

"It is absolute(ly) possible that an expert can get so lost in their subject that they forget how it relates to other things or that they become beholden to establishment thinking w/in the field... but you know what doesn't fix that problem? Hacks & amateurs....4/6