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Attn. worship leaders, here's a survey for you: "We’re inviting worship leaders to share how they view their work and its many intersections—from songwriting and ministry responsibilities to mental health and the broader worship music industry." worshipleaderresearch.com/2025-survey/

This Inter vs. Barca game is nuts! So entertaining!!! 🤯🤯🤯

This game!!! 🤯🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥

Earth is the silent planet, “which has fallen silent because of its fall from grace, but which may, when redeemed, rejoin the chorus of cosmic praise. Perhaps, besides testing for gases on distant planets, we should also be listening for songs of praise.” churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

"We act or we lose." Those are words that every time and place can resonate with. We're ready for season 3 of the #Foundation!

I'm basically an optimist, but I find it hard to argue against two claims: a) Screens/social media makes it easier to not pay attention in school b) GenAI makes it easier to cheat in school The combination of (a) + (b) is going to be a huge challenge for young ppl's education.

A Prayer for those who worry about all that they did or did not do yesterday and who worry about all that might be tomorrow, but who need the grace of God to be present to the present. ("Prayers for the Pilgrimage" via InterVarsity Press)

The scholarly life: "submitting, submitting, submitting (rejection, rejection, rejection), submitting once more, revising, revising, revising (6 months, 12 months, 18 months), all for a single precious line on your CV & a readership of approximately zero."quillette.com/2022/08/17/why…

This rule in the visual arts applies to the work of spiritual formation in general and to "Visio Divina" in particular: "Just because you have *looked* at something doesn’t mean that you have *seen* it." Which is why the Internet sucks on this account. harvardmagazine.com/2013/10/the-po…

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A Prayer for Being Patient with Oneself: for grace in the face of tendencies to cruelly demand of ourselves things that God in his wisdom has yet to permit us to be. ("Prayers for the Pilgrimage" via InterVarsity Press)

First words by Pope Leo XIV: “Peace be with you all.” “This is the first greetings of the resurrected Christ, the good shepherd who has given up his life for God. And I should also like this greeting of peace to enter our hearts and our families.” "Humanity needs Christ as a

Pope Leo XIV is a man of God. He looks at every human being equally. Nobody is more important than anyone else, and for those who are downtrodden, those who live in the shadows, he believes they should be lifted. That is a wonderful message worldwide and of course, also here in

It's so, so good: "The genius of Andor is that while its galaxy-altering events are transpiring, each devastating development is refracted through the perspective of someone we know....Andor has made a full-scale civil war personal." theringer.com/2025/05/07/sta…

"It is part of God’s comical theology that the Lion oversees the lambs, roaring against the wild beasts that threaten and endanger the herd while gently watching over the flock entrusted to him." firstthings.com/this-pope-will…

"Without a close connection to the church's saints and martyrs, Christians will often follow the cultural norm and make their nation state (or tribe or race), rather than the Gospel, that ultimate [for which to live and die]." --Michael Gorman, "Reading Revelation Responsibly"

Write this prayer of Ignatius of Loyola on your hearts and tattoo it on your body. It's the prayer that keeps on giving: "Grant that Your love may so fill our lives that we may count nothing too small to do for you, nothing too much to give, and nothing too hard to bear. Amen."

"Christianity now confronts a strange postmodern version of the paganism it once overcame — a cultural situation in which its own supernatural claims are no longer a stumbling block but perhaps an essential selling point." Ross Douthat nytimes.com/2025/05/09/opi…

A Collect for Good Shepherd Sunday: "O God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd of your people: Grant that, when we hear his voice, we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads. Amen." (Artwork: Marten van Cleve, "The Good Shepherd" [16th c].)