Valuing Truth
Hard to watch the events of this past week. My heart breaks for it all.
It's made me reflect on what it means—for us, and for me—to be a person who values truth.
Lightbringer
The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks sits perfectly at the intersection of my interests in fantasy epics and theology. If your interests are the same, and you don’t mind fiction seasoned with a dash of rude humor, you may love it like I did. (Nota Bene: Sometimes it’s a really hearty dash.)
Here in Tullahoma
In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, the United States has witnessed massive protests and a renewed call for reforms in policing to protect Black Americans from abuse and violence.
It is foolish to imagine that the issues sparking the protest exist only in far away places and not within our community. I call on my neighbors in Tullahoma to consider the wisdom of taking proactive action to address the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Choosing and Chasing
When I first read this post by Bradley Moore, I couldn't help identifying with his middle school tale of self-reinvention (the eighth grade wasn't particularly kind to me), and I started thinking about the tension we live in between the lives that are given to us and our own ability to determine our selves.
Covid-19 and Reclaiming Your Most Valuable Resource
The isolation demanded by COVID-19 clarifies a distinction I’ve been wanting to make for a while regarding our most precious resource—what it is, and what it isn’t.
Many people will say that our most precious resource is time, and for good reason. Time is finite, and we often feel ourselves needing more of it. We call it being “busy”, and ee do fill our lives with time-demanding activity, but I think that is actually a mask of the real problem.
Vital Signs
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, we're all experiencing an extreme disruption. In case I'm misinterpreted in what I'm about to write, let me be crystal clear at the beginning: that disruption is bad. A lot of people are going to be hurt by the disease and by the societal problems cascading from it. Everyone, please take care of yourselves and your community by honoring the physical distancing steps recommended by public health experts.