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🕊️ The thing about the whole Bishop Budde thing?

She was gentle, asking for mercy.

She could have called on him to repent, lest destruction fall on his reign. This would have been firmly in the prophetic tradition.

She played within his power fantasies, and they still couldn’t handle the gospel.

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📚 7 years ago we lost Ursula K. Le Guin

We need her more than ever.

Read more Ursula.

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♻️ Indiana Water Stewardship Day Jan 28

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🐾 cat dog enjoying the sunbeam

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🎙️🔒 Tomorrow I’m recording for the eXecutive Security Podcast.

My bar for podcasts:

“Is this a better use of my time than an audiobook?”

So I take this pretty seriously. Hopefully we’ll make it worth your listening time.

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2025 Indiana Legislative Watch List from the Indiana Wildlife Federation. Helpful commentary.

Opposed:

Senate Bill 32 Senate Bill 538 House Bill 1417

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🕊️ today we celebrate the 500th anniversary of anabaptism. If you like:

  • separation of church and state
  • peacemaking
  • simplicity
  • reconciliation & restoration
  • economic justice

…you may appreciate Anabaptism.

A few more thoughts of mine in an old post here.

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🐾 Here you see the elusive undertablepupper.

A small dog wearing a blue harness stands on a wooden shelf under a table, looking curiously at the camera.
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🕊️ Happy Anabaptist Day Eve!

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🕊️ Happy Saint Martin day!

May we all work to defeat the triple evils of racism, poverty, and war.

A historical black-and-white photo of Martin Luther King Jr. is overlaid with a quote from his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" about disappointment with the white moderate.
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🕊️ The traditional inauguration scripture: 1 Samuel 8:10-22

10 So Samuel spoke all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot. 12 He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties,[a] as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment. 13 He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers. 14 He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants. 15 He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators[b] and his servants. 16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use. 17 He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants. 18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.”[c] &10; &10;19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning.[d] Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us! 20 We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us[e] and fight our battles.” &10; &10;21 So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord.[f] 22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say[g] and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”
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🎲 Putting some of my #ttrpg books up for sale.

Most of these are being sold simply because I need more space (and maybe I have the digital version).

Some are because I can’t (or won’t) bring them to the game table.

Let me know if you have questions!

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🐾 Holly got to try the Monon Trail today.

Pupper in the snow.Pupper walking the MononThe potty areas were sus.

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⚽️ solid showing from the #USMNT in a camp where so many players were not present.

Still not sure the team will be “World Cup Ready” but rooting for the best.

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📺 Apparently everyone else is also trying to watch Severance right now.

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Today I met someone who had a surgical intervention where they added a cadaver bone to his back and…I had no idea that was a thing?

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🕊️ Interesting historical perspective on “community of goods”.

Of course, there is a variety of interpretations today, too, especially with Bruderhof entering the mix. #Anabaptism500

"In Switzerland, the practice of community of goods meant primarily a common treasury or a sharing between individual families to help needy members in a congregation, and also a refusal to take money from interest or rent. Community of goods meant something different for Hutterites in Moravia, where it eventually came to involve a congregation living together as a household. The practice of community of goods was short-lived among Swiss Anabaptists. When they came under increasing suspicion and pressure from civil authorities, they made clarifications that they had not advocated confiscating property from wealthy people but only wished to implement apostolic practice in the church. Community of goods became a rule against exploitation and about sharing in the congregation." (J Denny Weaver, Becoming Anabaptist)
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🎲📚 Following up from my last post:

My top shelf is coming along. It’s got the “really phenomenal physical artifact” books. Tag yourself! #TTRPG

Not shown:

  • Trilemma Adventures 1 (it’s sideways)
  • Vaults of Vaarn (currently being used for inspiration)
  • solo or BWHQ books (have their own shelves)
A collection of role-playing game books and sourcebooks is neatly arranged on a wooden shelf.
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🎲 What’s the best place to resell RPG books these days? #TTRPG

For perspective, these are everything from “still in the wrapper” to “classic and gently used”

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No, you’re pouring a protein shake into protein cereal.