Timothy Boerger

Christian, husband, father, pastor, lover of words, collector of vinyl, seeker of barbecue. “Inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te.”

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Signing off for a bit. Blessings, everyone.

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@_motherslug Bill Evans always works for me in that mood.

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@Daniel_Ross622 Enjoy your extra helping of Lent, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[My Friend Don @TheDonStein]

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

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@manofsteeele Say it with me, “Silenzio, Bruno!”

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@emzanotti Flashback to 2003 or so: I’m visiting a Catholic parish. Right before Mass, an usher comes up and asks my wife & me if we would bring up the gifts.
Me: I’m, uh, not Catholic?
Usher: You’re a human being, aren’t you?
Me: Well, yes…
Usher: You’re not a Communist, are you?

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@Daniel_Ross622 @LutheranSage In this verse, apart from some minor punctuation (ESV apparently doesn’t care for semicolons), the ESV exactly reproduces the RSV.

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Brisket didn’t become popular in Texas barbecue until the 1960s.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

Dim sum was not regularly consumed in China until the Yuan period in the 1200s

Christianity arrived in China before regular beverage consumption of tea

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@manofsteeele Maybe more than one!

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@emzanotti You can also get the good fish sauce while you’re there!

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@lagerandgospel2 That’s a sweet sign! How was Blue Note, btw? I’m sad that I've never been there or the Vanguard. I did catch a late-night session once at Smalls, long ago, and that was great.

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@lagerandgospel2 Enjoy your retreat!

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@SketchesbyBoze Definitely worthy of a block!

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@PatrickHeizer No place is perfect, but Frederick County is pretty great (resident of Mount Airy here).

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The question, then, is this: would CN advocates say that Christianity has fared better in England or Finland or Germany than it has under American non-establishment?

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I think the definition of CN as a society where “Christianity is the predominant religion and privileged by law” is misleading (because it leaves “nation” undefined), but let’s take it at face value. By that definition, CN simply = religious establishment. 1/

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Here’s the thing: countries with religious establishment exist. Many of those national churches established in the wake of the Reformation—the ones that CN types hold up as their ideal—are still around. You can visit them. 2/

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@emzanotti Yeah, this tends to be my take as well. Of course, we’re blessed to have a good meat processor/butcher shop down the road from us that sources their meat locally and not infrequently carries dry-aged steaks.