Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚

'as a scientist & an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.' ▪️Faith 🦉Poetry (@BlueBirdPoets)▪️Anecdotes▪️INFJ▪️6w5▪️Hufflepuff

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

A Tale of Two Cities:
An Acts 17 thread on humility, faith, & discernment.

In Acts 17, Paul uses scripture to teach two churches the gospel of Christ's suffering, death, and resurrection, with vastly different results. The difference? How each church responds to new teaching.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here...But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
#CSLewis

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@sometimesalight @kellyskeller I see you have gotten yourself into yet another sticky situation. Do you have a moment to talk about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"Third-Wayism" is a straw man to make blanket criticism sound justified. Christ above every nation, party, and power isn't a "third-way," it's THE way and has been for all Christians throughout history.

[Amanda Held Opelt @AmandaHeldOpelt]

I’m seeing a lot of critiques on here lately of “third-wayism.” Some say that choosing a third way is to be lukewarm, wishy-washy, or afraid of offending someone.

On the contrary: to choose a third way is to reject a manufactured binary that has been forced on us by culture.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

Apathy is worthy of critique, but refusing to curtail the gospel down through a partisan or polarized lens is simply Christian freedom. Engage according to conscience and leave room to learn from Christians who see differently. One body—many parts and We all see in mirrors dimly.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@megbasham @sgruber91 Using it to criticize Keller seems like a deliberate mischaracterization, especially when it doesn't take much to find where Keller has directly addressed issues...

"I’m pro-life. I believe the church must be too. I believe the Dobbs decision was morally and judicially right."

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@megbasham @sgruber91 Not what Kirsten said...
"I signed up for what I heard from the pulpit, which never included teaching about homosexuality or abortion being a sin or men being the head of the family. But as I became more involved in the church, I learned that these were in fact core teachings."

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

I’ve become increasingly convinced of our culture’s need for poetry. These last few weeks, as Fred Rogers would say “look for the helpers” I’ve been praying that a generation of poets would rise up, and give us beautiful, thoughtful words.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"Though the nations rage from age to age
We remember who holds us fast"

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

Loving it.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@sheiladougal Tell me without telling me they only read halfway through Ephesians 5:25

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"Governments need a separation of powers, legislative checks and balances, and laws legislated as if the party or person we fear the most will acquire the power to wield them." N.T. Wright and Michael Bird, Jesus and the Powers

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously and takes the stakes of them seriously — but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with one another." - Ezra Klein https://t.co/xyFXzq0BiV

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@garonnevik @sw1ssmystery I like this. I hadn't considered this perspective before but it's a good example of how terms or ideas can be good in one sense yet misconstrued, misused, or incomplete.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@Ineverglow 1. World's Apart
2. Every other song on this album
10. Flood / Liquid

2 is particularly difficult

[emily may @emilykmay]

the hardest thing for me to accept about grief is that i will probably be a little bit sad forever.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@emilykmay @taylorsschumann Sound machine might be the only legit advice that a lot of people say they've thought about but haven't tried yet. But if you try it and it isn't working, you might be doing it wrong. The sound machine has to go in your room.

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@terraosman @emilykmay Translation: "I just make really high pitched 'fun' noises while putting 99% of the toys away myself and then my kid picks up the two toys left without any pushback."

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

"What is closer to my heart, a soldier from my country or one of my enemy's poets?"
Apeirogon

[Derek The Explorer 🏔🐚 @DerekColler]

@__debi__t Speed dating round 1: " Who made you?"...."And what else did God make?"