This week winter has been very cold. Very cold. I have been indoors. Except to go & see these.

You Should Read These

Seven articles that might be worth you bookmarking, reading & thinking about

1. 25years in. More captivated than ever. Beautiful from Jez Field.
2. I Spent Years Searching for Magic—I Found God Instead. Beautiful from Tara Isabella Burton.
3. Consumerism and the Church: Reclaiming the Gospel From Our Culture’s Most Powerful Religion. Important to read at any time of the year but especially this one.
4. 52 things I learned in 2023. Always good stuff from Tom Whitwell. I was surprised by #3. Not surprised by #11. Discouraged by #33. Encouraged by #35. Shaking my head at #30. I knew I was secretly good at physics #51
5. Bring back the blog. Amen Alan Jacobs.
6. The bad of Sweden and the pretty good.
7. Uploading Your Mind to a Computer Will Require 3 Crucial Things. Don’t hold or waste your breath.

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You Should Look At This

Best of 2023: Top 42 Photographs From Around the World

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You Should Listen To This

Enjoying this advent song

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You Should Watch This

House of the year 2023. Love it.

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This Week’s Postings

1. December Update. Another personal update, glory be!
2. Saving Private Ryan & Grace
3. Reading A Passage More Than Once

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From The Archives

It’s common to point out that calling a woman a “helper” (ezer) is not demeaning, since Yahweh Himself is called a helper. Mollenkott reverses that logic: “the Bible applies the word ezer to only two specifically named entities: God and Eve.” From that she concludes that “woman is in some unique sense the channel of God’s ezer to the world; and conversely, God also is the ezer of humankind” (75). Woman is the channel of help specifically in her specifically female capacity to give birth: She helps by bringing Yahweh’s redeemer into the world.

The Masculine And Feminine God