Tim Keller is the founder and current senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, a decent-sized multi-campus church in Manhattan with a membership of a bit less than 2,000. Keller is an author of books on Christian apologetics, and he’s come up on my radar from a number of directions, and behest from friends and pastors…
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Et Tu, Brute? Why Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” Sucks
If you missed why the aforementioned play is in the news cycle, be glad; it’s stupid reason. But it got me reminiscing. Like many schoolchildren in the Anglosphere, I was compelled by my English teacher to read the play when I was 15. Then, of course, we had to write an essay talking about–I have…
A Recovering Alcoholic Narrates Her Midlife Crisis, I’m an Asshole to Her in My Head
There’s no factual information to come away with here. This is purely a “journey, not the destination” essay. HOWEVER, Tl;dr: headlines are often not written by the same people who write the article, but they can substantially alter your prejudices about how you go into a piece of writing. In my daily routine of trawling…
The President As Christ
12 And The Media answered and said again unto them, “What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the President of the United States?” 13 And they cried out again, “Crucify him!” 14 Then The Media said unto them, “Why, what evil hath he done?” And they cried out the more exceedingly, “Crucify…