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I have spent the past several weeks thinking about Ted Goia’s 2024 “State of the Culture” Substack post. If you haven’t read it yet, I would argue it is a must-read. Ted Goia’s 2024 State of the Culture suggests that a “post-entertainment culture”—which he also refers to as a “dopamine culture”—has consumed the entertainment industry and is slowly consuming our world. While large entertainment corporations such as Disney, Paramount, and Sony struggle to survive, companies such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube thrive.

Andrew Bartlett and Terran Williams here respond to Mike Winger. Andrew is the author of the important study, Men and Women in Christ. On a subject this important, we are disappointed with Mike Winger’s long-awaited video on 1 Timothy 2 (Part 12 in his Women in Ministry series). His effort is prodigious but misguided. Its length is not proportional to its quality.  We are deeply concerned that so many rely on Mike’s study for their theology of women.

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Hi everyone, I realise I have been writing a lot about rest lately. Perhaps I’m obsessed with it. I’m convinced we ought to give rest more room in the future of work agenda. Although it’s often framed as individual self-care, it’s actually a political subject. Rest is unproductive and therefore not easily granted, including by ourselves. We often see it as a reward rather than a necessity. We see it as a means to an end (production) rather than a goal in itself.

“I have been following these plans since she launched them, and seriously, my family has never eaten so well. They are fast to make on a weeknight (once the prep is done) and everyone has been happy. I just double the amounts to feed my family of two adults plus three kids. ” ncG1vNJzZmiqlajBosHRmqWtnKKkvbDB02eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZn

Brett Waterman, star of the DIY television series “Restored,” has a passion for preservation! He tells you this, burbling with delight, wearing a cowboy hat and grin that won’t quit. Brett Waterman finds homes in Southern California that have been egregiously remodeled and brings them back to “the way they were intended to be.” For a variety of reasons, I am obsessed with Brett Waterman and his show. There is his goober-y personality.

A commenter on my previous post asked how, if heaven is understood to be something like annihilation, Christians ought to understand their own belief in the resurrection of the body, which they profess in the Creed. This is an important question, and in fact it is quite central to my reflections lately — but I haven’t really written about it at in detail on this blog yet. I answered his comment in the comment box there, but I would like to discuss the issue in slightly more detail here.

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For decades, the conventional wisdom in the field of geology held that oil and gas reserves were the result of the decomposition of organic matter over millions of years. However, an intriguing alternative theory has been gaining traction – the Abiotic Oil Theory. The Abiotic Oil Theory posits that oil and gas are not solely the products of decayed ancient organisms, as traditionally believed. Instead, it suggests that hydrocarbons can form deep within the Earth through abiotic processes, involving the chemical transformation of inorganic materials.