Riddleblog and Blessed Hope Podcast Updates
More traveling to come for the Rs, so the schedule for new episodes of the Blessed Hope Podcast and posting on the Riddleblog will suffer occasional disruption through the end of October
Now that I am retired, I can do stuff like this—if anyone is interested in pictures of my grand kids, the missus and I celebrating stuff, our family travels, and my yard and garden, you can check out my instagram account. No pictures yet of me chasing the neighbor’s kids off my lawn
Thinking Out loud:
The worst commercial currently popping up in my feed is the Jardiance ad, especially the baseball version. Jardiance may be really swell, but no one on that baseball team can probably lift a bat, much less swing one
When someone tells me they are going to “research something online,“ more often than not they really mean that they are going to “research” stuff which only reinforces their current beliefs/opinions
Rumor has it that Bill Bellicheck’s 24 year old girl friend is going to enter the transfer portal after UNC’s blow-out loss to TCU. He was 41, when she was 7. The creepy ick factor is off the chart here
An observation—the evangelicalism of my youth (the R’s attended Grace Brethren and Evangelical Free churches) were passionately interested in missions and evangelism. What happened? Tribal politicking, debates over Christian nationalism, and support for Trump despite his lack of personal morality now dominates the religious circles of my youth. I get that Trump has done much to push back against “woke” nonsense (and I agree with many of his goals if not necessarily with his methods). But the shift in focus from taking the gospel to the ends of the earth to Trump’s near-canonization on the part of many evangelicals is something I am sure future historians will identify as evidence of a significant decline of American Christianity and obvious secularization
I recently renewed my CA diver’s license. If the efficiency of the California DMV in any way reflects the competency of our current governor, why anyone would vote for Gavin Newsom for president is beyond my comprehension. Oh, and then there is the high speed rail project. Don’t get me started. California is the greatest state in America—except for our state government which is awful
Just saw an ad from Disneyland (a few miles away from me) explaining that this was the cheapest time of year for you to go (after the kids are back in school and before they start their Halloween Stuff in August ?????). Tickets for sixteen special dates are only $104.00 each! You gotta be kidding me—Halloween events starting in August?
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