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Currently reading: Lord Jesus Christ by Daniel Treier 📚

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What a read that was.

Finished reading: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl R. Trueman 📚

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A Christian Optimism

I really appreciate Stephen McAlpine’s optimism here. He had similar things to say when Ayaan Hirsi Ali declared that she is a Christian. I’ve definitely been guilty of being overly suspicious of people saying they’ve become Christians. Is Russell finally branding himself a Christian?
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It’s a bit later than I wanted, but the latest issue of The Habitus is available now.

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New issue of The Habitus

New issue of The Habitus out now! Sometimes it’s hard to keep at it. Sometimes sleep makes it really difficult to form a practice.
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The trouble with only writing what you know is that you end up running the risk of being like the busker in my town who seems to only know how to play Despacito.

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Currently reading: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚

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Finished reading: The Actual One by Isy Suttie 📚

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Finished reading: What is Biblical Wisdom? by Robert Charles Sproul 📚

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Some of the rainbows we get here are amazing.

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Year in books for 2023

Here are the books I finished reading in 2023 that I remembered to track on here. There were some others that I have written down in last year’s diary. It was a decent reading year for me, though, as I am quite a slow reader.
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introducing The Habitus

It’s the first of the new year. I’m still in the annoying place where my journal entry for the day is scratched out because I wrote 2023 instead of 2024. Even so, the new year brings a new theme. Last year was really a year without a theme. I cannot remember if I tried making one or if I was just too busy with things. The busyness left me with a sense of longing as the year came to a close.

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A rare snowfall here in the west of Scotland.

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Finished reading: The Whale at the End of the World by JOHN. IRONMONGER 📚

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Finished reading: Simply Trinity by Matthew Barrett 📚

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A while back, I bought a couple of these accordion fold refills for my Traveler’s Notebook. I wasn’t sure what to do with them, thinking maybe I would make a big piece of artwork in them, but never did. Instead, I’m using one as a sort of commonplace book.

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Just dropped off a bunch of flyers for our Blue Christmas service at the local library. Even for me, as a pastor and someone who stands up in public to tell people about Jesus, it still feels awkward to stuff like that.

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thoughts on writing 30 poems

As I write this, I have just finished the main writing portion of the poetry challenge I was doing this month. There is still the process of choosing 20 of the poems to be worked on further to have a chapbook to submit, but my initial thoughts are these: Poetry is fun to write — there are so many forms that you can play with, and there are great books and resources available to help make the process even better.

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