WaPo: In a discovered letter, Ronald Reagan writes to his dying father-in-law about Jesus.
Read @MichaelHorton_’s chapter in Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (ed. @FredFredSanders and Oliver Crisp). Lots of great stuff on incarnation, theosis, Irenaeus, Calvin, and more. And, wow, Origen’s theology was a disaster. 📚
I had a good time meeting teachers and students at the Quest Carnival tonight. Yummy food trucks! This year I’m teaching Old Testament Survey and cello. Classes start Monday, but there is still time to sign up.
Watch out for these three enemies of productivity: excitement, frustration, and fear. Advice from C. S. Lewis.
⛪️ I preached from John 1 for my third sermon on wisdom.
Two weeks ago, I got a copy of the amazing Garner’s Modern English Usage. I thought it might replace my second edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage. But there’s is too much fiddle-fiddle in Fowler to give it away. Like this, from the entry on “reduplicated words”:
Many—perhaps most—of these words have a disparaging or contemptuous flavour. A few examples of those that are, on the contrary, colourless, though some of them onomatopoeic, are boogie-woogie, chiff-chaff, crinkum-crankum, criss-cross, flip-flap, hokey-pokey (in one of its senses), hurdy-gurdy, ping-pong, roly-poly, rub-a-dub, pitter-patter, see-saw, tick-tack, walkie-talkie, and zig-zag.
And this is only about a twelfth of the whole essay!
Last night, I finished Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich: Wealth, Poverty, and Early Christian Formation by Helen Rhee. 📚 It’s rich with interesting details and is helping me reflect on my own theology and practices.
Tucson loves her murals. This one is at the Spay Neuter Clinic (Grant/Stone).
