Hello. Welcome to another weekend. Hope something here sparks your interest.

You should read these

Seven articles (plus a few sneaky bonuses) that might be worth you bookmarking, reading & thinking about

1. How Much Should Pastors Make? I thought this from John Piper was good. I liked the last line, “don’t call a pastor who’s trying to get rich, and don’t be a church that’s trying to keep him poor.”
2. Jesus hasn’t returned yet. Why not?
3. Stockholm tops ranking as world’s greenest city. Not a surprise.
4. The Y Chromosome Is Vanishing. A New Sex Gene Could Be The Future of Men. This is a surprise.
5. Ocean farming for Carbon Kapture
6. What Is Odinism? Getting bigger in *checks notes* Iceland.
7. Casa Terracota: World’s Largest Piece of Pottery

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You should look at this

Ethereal beauty: Milky Way photographer of the year 2023

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You should listen to this

I love the fusion of languages in this

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You should watch this

I am very much looking forward to seeing this on a BIG screen

HT: Kottke

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This week’s posts

Monday: Three questions for the church
Wednesday: Nobody is discipling them well
Thursday: The status of women

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Reading Colossians Remixed

On the sabbatical to-do list. Coming next week soon. Promise.

• Read with me: Colossians Re:mixed
• Colossians Remixed: Placing ourselves
• Colossians Remixed: Hearing with Old Testament ears
• Colossians Remixed: Do we live under an empire?
• Colossians Remixed: Growing in the Empire’s shadow
• Colossians Remixed: Dealing with postmodernism

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From the archives

“In many arguments the most uncomfortable position is often somewhere in the middle, open as you are to being attacked by both sides of a conflict. Those occupying what they perceive to be the middle use the evidence of both attacks as justification that they must be on to something. We’re not making the mistakes or extremes of this side or that side and that’s why they’re attacking us. But the idea that we must be on to something because neither side like us, while understandable is also wrong-headed.” – The discomfort of the partial revisionist