“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” - Mark Twain

"To remember the resurrection, to hope for universal resurrection, is a 'political' act: for it is the ultimate refusal of all denials of community" - John Millbank

If the resurrection is true, then everything’s going to be alright.

The challenge of (and to) hope. It reminds me a bit of the Flannery O’Connor line (and The Perfect Foil song) “It’s harder to believe than not to.” Grateful for these wise and challenging words from Esau McCaulley.

Chicago winter may be rough, but there’s no substitute for Spring that coincides with Easter. It genuinely feels like the earth is celebrating

Great article psyche.co/ideas/a-life-o…

It seems to me like we’ve underrated Dora the Explorer. A Latina woman working in the hard sciences, conserving the earth, *while deterring theft.* Trailblazer.

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Let's Go! Now, all we have to do is write a dissertation.

It reveals how little we Christians actually believe that Christ conquered sin and death on the cross when we treat our religion like a war that hasn’t been won rather than a work of compassion and treat the world as an enemy to be conquered rather than a neighbor to be loved.

Book banning

Love it in theory. Tough thing is that you basically can't get a charge call without embellishing.

It's so silly that it's considered bad form to start a sentence with a conjunction.

I'm out here on Substack. Check out the post from last week: cgow10.substack.com/p/creating-sig…

Monday's Substack Post: open.substack.com/pub/cgow10/p/w…