Casey Shutt

Husband/dad; Pastor, King's Cross Church, a PCA church in OKC; words @mereorthodoxy, @PublicDiscourse, @TGC; educated @obunews, @GordonConwell and @durham_uni

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

Amazing: that viral couple were arguing about the Ben Sasse podcast and the future of liberal arts education.

https://t.co/giQFx21f1g

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

I am a big fan of Steve Hartman & an even bigger fan of my daughter, so I was thrilled to see Hartman’s profile of my daughter’s basketball team & their wild ride during the playoffs. @SteveHartmanCBS

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

An Oklahoma girls' basketball team thought they won last season's championship game by 1 point. But when they realized there had been a scoring error – and that they actually lost – they chose to give back the trophy. In doing so, they proved true victory comes from integrity, not from the scoreboard. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@bariweiss's @TheFP interview w @amandaknox goes to the deep places. Rather than turn to the more esoteric stock of eastern religion (as Weiss & Knox do), I think the Bible's grounded story-telling makes best sense of the awe that hits them both at the interview's 1:22:00 mark.

[Mere Orthodoxy @mereorthodoxy]

Bari Weiss, Amanda Knox, and the Intrusion of Grace
https://t.co/iABwzy0AIV

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

40 yrs ago Back to the Future was released; it’s one of my favorite movies so my interest was piqued when a few yrs later my 5th grade teacher claimed he was B2F’s uncredited source. I reflect on this claim & the broader ques of plagiarism here: https://t.co/D3hS2vHhWQ

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@WaltRMartin "The Song is Never Done" expresses a longing to make something of lasting value & leave a mark thru song. W/ the help of Tolkien & Xian Scriptures, I make the case that this longing Martin taps into finds resolution in the New Creation https://t.co/cMFEUmZJLD

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

Paul Kingsnorth believes demons may be prowling about in AI tech; when I consider the experiences & concerns of those working w AI alongside what the Scriptures say (esp Isaiah 14), I wonder if he's right: https://t.co/rV8IeJhxt3 @mereorthodoxy

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@liel's writing in @firstthingsmag never disappoints! I disagree though w/ his take on the central characters in Oppenheimer & hold a more dire conclusion (one which only adds to the trepidation of a having a bomb that can blow the wrld to bits in our possession). Read here...

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

The December 2023 letters section contains contributions from @roddreher on Andrei Tarkovsky, @CSShutt on Oppenheimer, J. H. H. Weiler on Catholics and the pope, and more. Jump into the conversation here:
https://t.co/wxBmBcLO5t

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@abrahamcho In my experience, prep increases as the minutes preached decrease.

As Mark Twain quipped in one of his letters: "Sorry for such a long letter. I didn't have time to write a shorter one."

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@ShaiLinne Thanks for posing this ques. It's yielding good fruit for me personally :-) For audiobooks, my faves in recent years are: Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is Untrue; Andre Agassi's autobio, Open; David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese's movie comes out next month)

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@derekradney Thanks for summarizing and posting this, Derek.

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

I love this… (there were so many packs these guys went through to get to this: a Wemby auto)

[Gary Shutt @gshutt]

The thrill of a Wemby auto… @spurs @Topps @BowmanCards

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

A good, quick read by ⁦@jake_meador⁩ Made me think of Dean Kelley’s ‘strictness theory’ which claimed (in 1972) conservative churches grow b/c of the clear & exacting demands place on congregants (esp when compared to liberal churches). https://t.co/1Ol1CbXzwq

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

A simple edit speaks volumes for the direction of the West, a direction in which Xianity is increasingly sidelined, but a shell of it remains on the field/pitch. How long before the "goods" (not just the core) of Xianity are sidelined, too? Interest piqued.

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

Andrew Wilson, author of "Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West," talks about how an edit from Ben Franklin to the Declaration of Independence represented a change in the course of history.

https://t.co/v33VVEuMC8

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@derekradney I appreciate this review. Thanks for linking. I am working through BCT now, esp digging the 20th / 21st c. philosophical analysis/insight. I resonate, though, with much of East's critique. Still appreciate the book greatly and what I'm gleaning.

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

My thoughts on @FavaleAbs excellent book, The Genesis of Gender (@IgnatiusPress). Favale doesn't just speak truth to the sexual & anthropological confusion of our day, she does so lovingly, giving us an example for engaging this important topic ourselves.
https://t.co/nidFBYoI0x

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

Well put, @TimScheiderer !

[Tim Scheiderer @TimScheiderer]

No wonder the ship’s movements don’t make sense. Guiding a ship by a reference point on the ship means the ship is adrift, voyaging to nowhere. |@CSShutt|

https://t.co/ehj4fWaQtS

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@drantbradley @TheAthletic Andre Agassi’s bio, Open, is another powerful window into this unfortunate dynamic.

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@LondonHatch I like to think of Ch plant’n more like the Moneyball approach to baseball. That is, it’s the aggregate: the planters gifts + core group gifting (of course HS too). I’m hardly a planter type but we planted thanks to the help of the complimentary gifting of those in our ranks.

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@LondonHatch I like Carson as straightforward exegetical comment. I have benefitted even more from Newbigin’s exposition (The Light Has Come) & Bruner. Those are my three go-tos on John. If I had to pick one, Bruner’s it, IMO.

[Casey Shutt @CSShutt]

@collinhansen This was an encouragement. I resonated with much of Molly’s story. Thanks for this.