Ross Byrd
rossbyrd.bsky.social
Ross Byrd
@rossbyrd.bsky.social
Theology, philosophy, story. Herder of 4 kids, musician, theology teacher, surfer. All views are Lewis's, Chesterton's or MacDonald's. Substack: PatientKingdom.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:56 PM
True story.
Probably the most underrated aspect of cultivating patience in your life is how it requires you to adopt a long time horizon for pretty much everything in your life.

We should be thinking in 5-10 year spans at minimum and all of eternity at maximum.
November 30, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by Ross Byrd
It’s interesting to see how when links aren’t throttled on a social media feed, the topics of conversation expand. X’s self-referential algorithm pretty much guarantees people are only going to be interested in high-dopamine topics (read: politics)
November 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM
My theological movie review of Disney’s “Wish,” which appeared in the latest print version of Mere Orthodoxy, is now up on their site.

mereorthodoxy.com/disneys-wish...
Disney's 'Wish': An Inverted Genie Story
Disney's 2023 movie 'Wish' is best understood as a kind of inversion of a classic genie story with a deeply materialistic outlook.
mereorthodoxy.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:44 PM