Watched: The Testament of Ann Lee 🍿 with my wife. I found myself moved but my wife has little tolerance for musical pretensions, so her opinion was a bit mixed.
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Dream Shake
Memoryhouse consists of Canadians Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion. The band had a minor hit with their piano-driven live cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep” for Yours Truly in 2011. They capitalized on their success with that cover and the well-regarded EP, The Years, by signing to indie heavyweight Sub Pop Records. When their follow-up full length, Slideshow Effect didn’t garner as much attention, the band unceremoniously parted ways with their label and went out on their own.
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We all know the story of Evangelicals abandoning their values to support Donald Trump, but Jeremy finds an inventive way to illustrate it.
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Brave is apparently selling subscriptions to a stripped-down version of its browser called Brave Origins. I’m really not sure how I feel about that. As Adam Davidson opines in the How-To-Geek piece about the deal, it’s like they’re admitting their product has a bloat problem. Which, when you look at all of the features they are removing, seems like a pretty legit perspective.
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Hardcore IndieWeb
Jason Kratz runs down the set of solid blogging platforms in this post which serves as a rebuttal to OMG.lol’s Adam Newbold. Newbold believes if you use indie blogging services you are not truly on the indieweb. Even if your data is totally portable, he’s convinced that somehow you’ve given up control of your content. He’s written a tutorial on how to create a blog from scratch.
Personally, I feel like it’s a lot more hassle to create a less powerful blogging platform myself rather than have an expert work on something more capable for me. It’s the low-key version of why I don’t build my own house. Leave some things to the professionals.
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No More Mere Christianity?
Jake Meador, editor-in-chief of print and web publication Mere Orthodoxy, has noticed the rise in Christian denominational distinctiveness that stands in contrast to a “mere Christianity” type of ecumenical approach.
Younger people who have grown up without tradition or custom and often strapped to a screen for hours every day desire belonging, desire to enter into something that offers moral direction, identity, and a fixed way of life they don’t have to generate for themselves. But the only way to have something like that is through particularity and even some hard edges. So, Scrivener argues, Mere Christianity is out. Orthodoxy is back. Rome is back. Distinct Protestant traditions are back. In short, denominationalism is back.
I’ve seen this with the incredible explosion of interest in Eastern Orthodoxy, which is very distinctive. I’ve seen Presbyterians move to Rome. I’ve seen curiosity about Anglicanism. At this point, it seems the more your church leans into what makes it unique, the more attractive it is going to be for the seeker.
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Watched: Rental Family 🍿 last night. Many moments of trying to hold back tears. I’m happy to say I was fairly successful.