Recently transitioned from pastor to high school teacher. Part time farmer and writer at https://xitter.gq/t.co/tn8hrYjTbd and https://xitter.gq/t.co/bqtNxEH52c
Terre Haute, Indiana
Joined December 2008
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“You are my eternal Father, but I am scattered in times whose order I do not understand. The storms of incoherent events tear to pieces my thoughts, ... until the day when purified by the fire of your love I flow together and merge into you.”
- Augustine
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Dissecting Nikola Vucevic’s postgame lament, which leaked into the locker room, and a conflicting message on the Bulls’ recent effort @TheAthletic:
nytimes.com/athletic/6830486…
Have you ever attempted or considered living with a small group of people for religious or ideological reasons?
67%Yes
33%No
6 votes • Final results
What do Jim Jones, Karl Marx, and the Amish have in common? They have each played a part in contributing to the American fear of communal living. For decades to mention living "off the grid" would result in visions of cults, communists, and crazies.
mattlarimer.substack.com/p/t…
I don’t know exactly how Mark 16:18, “they shall take up serpents… and not be harmed” should be interpreted, but I know that the American church has tried to “take up serpents” and has been harmed.
open.substack.com/pub/mattla…
We fail to understand this idolatry is because we are convinced that our $25 trillion dollar GDP, and our nearly $1 trillion dollar military budget are gifts from God. So, if we sell Israel some of our bombs that is like God blessing them by proxy. open.substack.com/pub/mattla…
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In Orthodox icons of Christ saving people, He is grabbing their arms. They are not grabbing His.
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After having been a classical infernalist for over 24 years, a series of YouTube videos, articles and the books below have changed my mind on the matter. I now believe universalism is more plausible. I am not dogmatic about it, but at least I am confident that universalism is true.
Like many verses throughout the scriptures, this one is often used to support an ideology that is the exact opposite of what it was originally meant to convey. open.substack.com/pub/mattla…
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The thing is, if you’re not good at describing feasts, your fantasy literature just isn’t quite as fantastic.
Hard to top Brian Jacques in the redwall books
What I miss about church: community, summer camp, VBS. What I don’t miss about church: the tribalism.
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Would like to start with Micah Beckwith of Life Church in Indiana...because I actually have mutual friends with him and this video is circulating on my timeline. Lol WHAT
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Btw, the irony of the SBC/Nicaea thing is that some of the best folks doing retrieval and doctrinal work around Trinitarian and pro-Nicene theology are youngish Baptists. Thinking about folks like @M_Y_Emerson @brandon_d_smith @bobby_jamieson @tylerwittman Luke Stamps, etc.
