Listening to: Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House from Crowded House 🎵
This song resonates with today’s ruminations… 🤔
I recently finished: Liturgies of the Wild by Martin Shaw đź“š
Reading this book was a deeply thoughtful experience for me. It felt both meditative and poetic, exploring myth, nature, and Christian spirituality in ways that resonated on a personal level. Dr. Shaw has a gift for weaving together ancient stories, theological reflection, and personal insight—there were moments that made me pause and reconsider my own experiences of trauma and the truths I hold. Some chapters spoke to me more than others, but the book’s storytelling and wisdom stayed with me, gently inviting reflection on faith, narrative, and the sacred in everyday life.
The problem with populists is their obsession with a mythical or overly romanticized past. What they claim is “lost” often still exists—it’s just obscured by the narrow, often racist and xenophobic lens through which they view the world.
Populists thrive on dehumanizing, blaming, and dividing people—like the “They” in this post, blamed for killing Canada.
The most dangerous populists are the evangelical kind. Hiding behind faith, they often act with cruelty, vengeance, and even violence.
Orthodoxy is first for the body not the intellect…Stay focused on the Encounter, not the theology. Stay focused on the Presence not the history. There’s nothing wrong with study, but don’t rush there too quickly.
Feeling ecstatic and groovy is one thing, but there has to be more going on than that. There has to be discipline. There has to be a praxis you return to that is not dependent on being spiritually high to undergo it.
Currently reading: Liturgies of the Wild by Martin Shaw đź“š
Humans are made of stories, and so we should be seeking the ones that call forth the best in us.
Listening to: Nostalgia by Mother Mother 🎵
Currently reading: Liturgies of the Wild by Martin Shaw đź“š
I’m looking forward to this one. It’s a bit different from my usual reads…
From the description:
In Liturgies of the Wild, acclaimed mythographer, storyteller and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well… Combining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Liturgies of the Wild is a thrilling counsel of resistance and delight in the face of many modern monsters.
Finished reading: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow đź“š
Although I first discovered @pluralistic@mamot.fr through his more recent novels (and the Fediverse), I can understand why so many people consider this book, one of his best. I absolutely loved it —truly great storytelling.
Words like “boofhead” and “spiflicate” are definitely underutilized in modern English. đź“ť