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Adam Palmer
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I make my living the old-fashioned way: writing. (he/him)
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@scottrenshaw.bsky.social figured you and your librarian spouse might appreciate this:
Screenshot of my 3 1/2-star Letterboxd review of RoboCop. The text of the review reads: "An important Rosetta Stone story that unlocks much of Me: This movie came out the summer before I went into 7th grade, and it was the talk of the school by the time classes began. My family didn't go to the movies at all, let alone something R-rated and violent, so I was out of the loop. My solution lay at the library, where I checked out (and read) the novelization. Fitting then, I suppose, that I just streamed this on Kanopy, which I accessed through my local library."
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Now reading: CIRCLE OF HOPE by Eliza Griswold.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Heartstopping. Heartbreaking.
The book cover but in black and white
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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We visited the border for church and a friend of mine took some incredible pictures and I indulged my florid side and wrote some words about the experience.
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A photograph of the Southern US border. It's a tall fence stretching in the distance to the right. Sand/dirt at the base, pale sky above it. In the negative space of the sky are the words "Border Church: A Witness". A handful of people cluster in the lower left of the photo.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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WHY RELIGION WENT OBSOLETE is the *perfect* book to read while growing in your career in the organized church. A real encouragement to know I’m putting my whole self into a dying field. I’m using dry sarcasm to cope with this excellent, clear-eyed bummer of a….
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The book cover in black and white
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Today marks 29 years of marriage for these smiling infants.
A photo of me and my wife on our wedding day, Nov 2, 1996. I was 20 and she was 18 and we very much look our ages.
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Welcome, new baseball fans, to one of the world’s greatest, dumbest sports. Highly recommend catching up with the excellent movie EEPHUS to tide you over during the offseason.
Poster for the movie Eephus
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Now reading: MINOR DETAIL by Adania Shibli.
The cover of the book.
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Prayed peace and restoration for you and your family this morning.
A stage-blood-spattered room with a small lamp and TV in the corner.
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Now reading: WHY RELIGION WENT OBSOLETE by Christian Smith.
October 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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KATABASIS had me from page one and kept me through to page 541 because Rebecca Kuang writes with her heart and her influences on her sleeve. Surprising, engaging, and maybe even enlightening? I can’t say it’s fun—C.S. Lewis once said that… www.instagram.com/p/DPZ72-cAW3...
It’s the book cover, but in black and white
October 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A Minecraft Movie is (so far) the #1 movie of 2025 by $170,000.
Snippet from a BoxOfficeMojo.com chart from today that shows A Minecraft Movie at #1 for 2025 with $423,949,195 and Lilo & Stitch just below it with $423,778,634.
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Oh yeah? Well tell that to Maria Menounos.
A NYT Spelling Bee screenshot showing that the word list does not contain NOOVIE
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Coffee and converation in honor of one of the best to do it.
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Screenshot of my Letterboxd recent activity featuring the following four films: Ordinary People All Is Lost The Horse Whisperer The Natural
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Interesting week for the lectionary text to include the Parable of the Dishonest Manager and end with Jesus' words, "You cannot serve God and wealth."
Luke 16:1-13: Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’ Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’ And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone they may welcome you into the eternal homes. “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If, then, you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? No slave can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Now reading: KATABASIS by RF Kuang.
Its the book cover
September 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A Bible fun fact for those of you seeing The Long Walk this weekend:
My 4 1/2-star Letterboxd review of The Long Walk, as follows: In Philippians 3, the Apostle Paul writes, "I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ." That word rubbish is the Greek word skubala but its translation has been sanitized; the actual contextual meaning is much more vulgar. So yes, Art, in its original language, the Bible does indeed use the word shit.
September 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A little tough for me to parse the specific from the general, as Patton is an acquaintance and I know some of the people in his stories, and he writes about a chapel incident at Oral Roberts University for which I was present and at which I…

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Its the book cover but in black and white
September 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Now reading: THE FATHER YOU GET by Patton Dodd.
Its the book cover
September 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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My, my, my what have we here. ENDLING is accessibly meta, heartbreakingly witty, fondly dark, singularly multifaceted. The perfect novel for our time, and I’m glad the only thing I knew about it beforehand was that it had to do with Ukraine. A must-read.
The book cover but in black and white
September 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Now reading: ENDLING by Maria Reva.
Its the book cover
August 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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They say it’s nigh impossible to create an anti-war story within the context of war, but doggone if ANGEL DOWN doesn’t succeed in just that. War is hell, even when accompanied by a resident of heaven.
Its the cover of the book
August 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This is gonna be fun I can tell.
August 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Now reading: ANGEL DOWN by Daniel Kraus, which I*won* in a *contest*! Many many thanks to the good folks at @scaresshapedus.bsky.social for the hookup!
August 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM