Love him or hate him, David Lynch’s formula of “a bunch of nutty stuff happens to two or three of the prettiest women you’ve ever seen” has almost always resulted in good movies.
Reading Charles Taylor and he’s describing dynamics of lived experience in/outside of faith, and he has this description of aspirational living without belief that’s like beat for beat the “right now I am euphoric” r/atheism post lmao
Theology before 1700 is fun because the guy will write “literature, in a way, is the highest form of expression, for the good Lord ordained that his revelation be brought to the world on paper; but cuisine is an even higher art, for even the illiterate may understand the flavour of the eucharist.”
Whenever I see some poll having to do with self-identified evangelicals I don’t know what to think, because the vast majority of evangelicals I’ve known don’t seem to really know what that means and consider themselves broadly Christian.
Folks, we love it when characters in action movies are named after famous intellectuals, don’t we. Buff fellas named Heidegger and Virgil fighting in the aisle of a highjacked plane? That’s the good stuff.
I think evangelicals have it right that sermons should address each part of the text but still be simple enough for most audiences to benefit from, and I think mainliners and catholics are right that sermons should be, like, at most 20 minutes.
A nice thing if you like Shakespeare is that if you live in any city on Earth with a pop. above 50,000 you can find 10+ good shows every year. I think it is a human rights issue that we also make this true of American Football cover bands.
Being a millionaire pro athlete sounds nice, but on the other hand you have to pretend to like whatever terrible local food chain is big in your team city.
