Day: January 7, 2021

• The State of the “Read Me” Project, 2021

  

  I’m committed to this now. In it for the long haul. I still haven’t read all the books in the tsundoku. I still haven’t achieved “dynamic homeostasis.” But, I have made Measurable Progress! Depending, that is, on how one measures the progress. Here are the data: In 2019, I read 24 books (that counted), and […]

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  January 7, 2021

  Read Me Project

  books, New Year’s resolutions, progress not perfection, reading, realism

• Truth or Consequences

  

  I am old. Old enough to know that there are a lot of things I don’t know. But I have learned one thing by now: nothing good ever comes from lying. Nothing good comes in churches from lying about sexual misconduct. The people who think “the reputation of the church” – that is, the approval […]

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  January 7, 2021

  Thinking Out Loud

  crisis of legitimacy, personal responsibility, politics, telling the truth, Thirty Years War, truth