Made Sacred

Join me as I try to thoughtfully engage life and culture, this world around us, as a way of loving God and loving others.

[Made Sacred @MadeSacred]

@LaurenThoman Same here. I still have to vet my girls’ books because they can intellectually read at a higher level than they are emotionally ready for.

[Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite]

You could have knocked me down with a feather

[David French @DavidAFrench]

An excellent choice. I still shudder to think what the world would look like if he'd lost his nerve in those uncertain first 48-72 hours.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

"We don’t have the option of not being cross-shaped. And when we try to pretend like we do, the dissonance will manifest itself in spiritually sick ways." ⁦@samueld_james⁩ https://t.co/swKAZCk1Dt

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

One reason conservatives lose in culture wars is that when conservative cultural products get made, we crap on them and stab them in the back.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Kherson liberation chronicles, from Ukrainian social media: When soldiers enter to clear a village that was occupied by Russia and a local girl comes out with a violin to play the Ukrainian anthem.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Amazing footage of the first Ukrainian troops reaching Kherson’s main square.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

This is exactly what Putin wants. If we’d had Republicans like this in the 1980s, we would have lost the Cold War.

[Mindy Belz @MindyBelz]

Unbelievable.

[Frida Ghitis @FridaGhitis]

Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao taken out of the Chinese Party Congress — apparently against his will. What happened? Hu was China’s top official before Xi. Did he oppose Xi’s historic power grab?
CNN reporting on the incident censored in China

[Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged]

Much of the dysfunctionality of current conversations about peoplehood and 'place' may be in part a result of the fact that many modern people—and perhaps especially in America, where the modern condition is most pronounced—don't really have anything resembling a 'place'.

[Trevin Wax @TrevinWax]

Regarding reports about "gender affirmation" surgeries and treatments on minors at Vanderbilt, it is not "bullying," "terrorism" or "hatred" to recognize the permanent physical effects on children and to reject the perverse financial incentives of hospitals involved.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This line is so memorable for a reason.

It's a perfect use of antimetabole: the repetition of a phrase in successive clauses, but with its word order reversed.

Here are 8 more rhetorical devices to make your writing or speaking more memorable:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Danger of Cheap Design

(and why ugliness isn't just an aesthetic problem)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Last year, I had a conversation that changed my life.

It caused me to upend everything and move across the country.

The lesson from it may change yours:

[Made Sacred @MadeSacred]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/Vbt6L9jrpB

[Made Sacred @MadeSacred]

@BethMooreLPM Beyond the Front Door: Cultivating Rhythms of Abiding in Christ is one I wrote! I used a lot from Ruth Haley Barton and David Benner as well as the ancient Church Fathers. Barton and Benner would be good resources as well. And Emily Griffin’s Wilderness Time.

[Made Sacred @MadeSacred]

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[Made Sacred @MadeSacred]

You know it has been a good birthday when …
#ntwright #ntwrightonline https://t.co/cFHyCxzheZ