Alan Smith
@alansmithonline.bsky.social
Enjoying books, theology, cigars, music, photography, and whiskey. Leaving fundamentalism and evangelicalism far behind.
Dan Snyder sold the Washington Commanders in July 2023. This year they are going to the NFC Championship.
Perhaps a similar strategy could work for the Dallas Cowboys?
Perhaps a similar strategy could work for the Dallas Cowboys?
January 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Dan Snyder sold the Washington Commanders in July 2023. This year they are going to the NFC Championship.
Perhaps a similar strategy could work for the Dallas Cowboys?
Perhaps a similar strategy could work for the Dallas Cowboys?
What is the scope of new creation? Who is included? Is anyone excluded?
changingmymind.substack.com/p/the-scope-...
changingmymind.substack.com/p/the-scope-...
The Scope of New Creation
One died for all, therefore all have died
changingmymind.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What is the scope of new creation? Who is included? Is anyone excluded?
changingmymind.substack.com/p/the-scope-...
changingmymind.substack.com/p/the-scope-...
How to Read Simone Weil, Part 1: The Mystic / Eric O. Springsted
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December 18, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... #polisky
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... #polisky
November 27, 2024 at 4:36 AM
How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... #polisky
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... #polisky
A pic of you from a different era. Here’s mine:
November 21, 2024 at 2:03 AM
A pic of you from a different era. Here’s mine:
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Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.
November 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.
A few pictures I took in Fort Worth recently.
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 PM
A few pictures I took in Fort Worth recently.
I’m glad to be here and am loving this app so far! If you like any of the following, let’s connect:
* progressive theology
* music
* cigars
* whiskey
* photography
* progressive theology
* music
* cigars
* whiskey
* photography
November 18, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I’m glad to be here and am loving this app so far! If you like any of the following, let’s connect:
* progressive theology
* music
* cigars
* whiskey
* photography
* progressive theology
* music
* cigars
* whiskey
* photography
This is helpful!
Sharing again for any new folks. There's now around 80 people in this #exvangelical and #christiannationalism starter pack.
go.bsky.app/3ZaJwqD
go.bsky.app/3ZaJwqD
November 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This is helpful!
Last night I dreamed I was driving on a very dark road, so dark that the sky above was a sea of stars and the Leonids were racing through the sky and I remembered again to wonder.
November 17, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Last night I dreamed I was driving on a very dark road, so dark that the sky above was a sea of stars and the Leonids were racing through the sky and I remembered again to wonder.
“…do not destroy a poem trying to make it clear.” - Russell Atkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162198...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162198...
Manifesto
In short, avoid the language “really used by men” in everyday affairs (“the language of ordinary men” etc.) that’s not far from the “grossness of domestick use” (therefore breeding contempt from famil...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
“…do not destroy a poem trying to make it clear.” - Russell Atkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162198...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162198...
I miss the community and hope to find my way back.
I hope you have a safe, loving, justice-focused, and Jesus-centered church to connect with today.
But if you don’t, or if church isn’t a healthy space for you right now, I hope you know God’s love for you is not based on church attendance.
God is with you wherever you are and loves you so much.
But if you don’t, or if church isn’t a healthy space for you right now, I hope you know God’s love for you is not based on church attendance.
God is with you wherever you are and loves you so much.
November 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I miss the community and hope to find my way back.
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As someone who loves Greco-Roman root words, I’m pleased to see kakistocracy is gaining new visibility, but displeased it’s so appropriate for our times.
A word Americans should know now more than ever:
Kakistocracy- a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
Yes, there’s a word for it.
Kakistocracy- a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
Yes, there’s a word for it.
November 16, 2024 at 4:58 AM
As someone who loves Greco-Roman root words, I’m pleased to see kakistocracy is gaining new visibility, but displeased it’s so appropriate for our times.
Reposted by Alan Smith
“We experience the power of hope when we have to fight against the apathy of our soul. We sense that it is keeping us alive if, when the outlook is somber, we say ‘nevertheless’, and dare life.” - Jürgen Moltmann, “A Meditation on Hope”
November 17, 2024 at 9:54 AM
“We experience the power of hope when we have to fight against the apathy of our soul. We sense that it is keeping us alive if, when the outlook is somber, we say ‘nevertheless’, and dare life.” - Jürgen Moltmann, “A Meditation on Hope”
Reposted by Alan Smith
Reposted by Alan Smith
"The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby accept incoherence as profundity, or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety." - David Bentley Hart
November 10, 2024 at 12:25 AM
"The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby accept incoherence as profundity, or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety." - David Bentley Hart