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I’m done (promise)

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing…

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When you want to give up your New Year’s Resolution after two weeks…

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

A harsh reality I have had to admit to myself: if I had the ability to write insightful, well-crafted book reviews of serious non-fiction then I would be writin...

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The Future of Collected Miscellany

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 3 Comments

The biggest motivation for me to keep this site going is the realization that social media and other distractions had undermined my ability to concentrate and f...

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nothing has changed in nearly seven years

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Who do you write for when your audience disappears? – Sadly, nothing has really changed in nearly seven years…

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Pondering the death of a blog or Deja Vu all over again

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

More than halfway into the second decade of CM I am again pondering quitting.  This is something I have been doing since before the tenth anniversary.

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Old School Blogging and Social Media Decluttering

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

I have decided to blog about more than books.  The idea is to get the creative juices flowing and get back in the habit of posting by writing about my life and ...

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To blog or not to blog?

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Kevin Holtsberry / 3 Comments

So the question I have been mulling for the last couple of months (but not for the first time) is whether to keep blogging or call it quits after 14 years. I th...

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Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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  • OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing...

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  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

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