Joshua Siders

⛰️ Helping men rise in the second half

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

My wife and I have been thinking about releasing a podcast for years. And we finally did today.

It’s for those who find themselves in the middle of things. But not quite arrived yet.

Hope you enjoy it.

https://t.co/yNDITkQH8u

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

@MikeWingerii Mere Bible is beautiful and simple

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@cbradedwards @lukeburgis @TheAlanNoble Great minds!

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

The Pope wears Air Force 1s. Love it.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Pope Leo XIV wearing Nikes

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

@JJ_Denhollander Yes. We call it the Food 'n Stuff, where we get our food and stuff

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Very helpful short essay, thank you

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

The Benedictine tradition gives us a word for what so many lives now lack: “stabilitas”, the vow of remaining. The monastic teachers recognized that without such a vow tying the soul to a specific community and a specific place, the inner life would never settle into the depth where transformation occurs.

Most of us live the opposite vow without knowing it, the vow of restless mobility. We change cities, change platforms, change identities, change theologies, and wonder why nothing roots. The saints who remain are not stuck. They have taken a vow the rest of us have forgotten.

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

The Ben Affleck smoking meme is all of us right now

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

Really enjoyed this post. And by enjoyed I mean was convicted.

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

"Normally we think of 'curiosity' in positive terms. We desire our children to be curious in their education, for example. But for Aquinas, and of course Josef Pieper, curiositas is a form of intemperance, and one very relevant to our own time."

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

@Vic702463640723 @SHoddeMiller Second this. @danwhitejr and his wife have cultivated an epic space

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

I'm not all that interested in learning from "Successful" leaders. Success doesn't tell me if they compromised character in order to gain success.

I'm way more interested in learning from healthy people.

In the tsunami of moral compromise being healthy is the ultimate success.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

That one can excuse or ignore this while claiming to be “pro-life” is a sign of a seared conscience. God have mercy on us all.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

On the cross, Jesus didn't say "I am finished." He said "it is finished."

He was just getting started.

#GoodFriday
#Sundayiscoming

[Fernando Ortega @Ferndiggity]

Jesus washes the feet of his disciples. The painting is by Tintoretto.

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

@thescottbarber Or maybe “speak friend and enter”?

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

@thescottbarber Chuck Norris vouched for Melchizedek

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

That discomfort is the point. Stillness doesn’t empty you out. It shows you what’s already there. And once you can see it, you can actually do something about it. That’s where the real work begins.

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

We were never built to be constantly on. Even constantly monitoring the situation. Quiet is where you stop performance and striving and start actually hearing what’s going on inside you.

[Joshua Siders @jhsiders]

Many men can go months (years?) without sitting in real stillness. Not sleep, not scrolling, not zoning out in front of something. Actually sitting with themselves. And when they finally do, it can feel uncomfortable because there’s a lot waiting there that never got dealt with.