@glennbutner And for more helpful advice… I would look at the final sections on grace in Anthony DuPont’s Preacher of Grace and the first section in his Gratia in Augustine’s Sermons ad Populous.
@glennbutner He doesn’t need the infused distinction, because it’s largely the reception of Aristotle that makes Aquinas need to distinguish between created and uncreated grace as well as the gift of the Spirit and infused grace.
I saw fireflies for the first time this year. I stood for fifteen minutes watching the shapes of the bending light in flight. The disappearance and the reappearing in a new place. They are the first fireflies I’ve seen since before we moved to Scotland.
The algorithm that chooses my podcast ads seems to be confused about who I am. I am getting ads for a test to tell whether that “pick me up” at a party has fentanyl as well as ads for a margaritaville themed 55 and up active living community.
I just learned that, in addition state flower, fruit, song, etc., Georgia has an an official “State Pork Cook Off” called the “Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig” in Vienna, GA. Attending this year would be quite the way to re-assimilate to southern culture.
ICE is arresting refugees in Minnesota who are in the country legally, flying them to Texas, re-interviewing them and then releasing them without a way to get home.
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