Idle musings of a bookseller

Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The road goes ever on… but this blog won't

I've been blogging now for twenty years (today is the twentieth anniversary). Some years I've blogged more than others, but I've...

Monday, October 20, 2025

The social net and the gospel

I say we cannot preach it [the gospel] honestly, not because people might look at lack of community in our own lives and say, “You aren’t pr...

Friday, October 17, 2025

Community!

What, singularly, are we missing today within Christianity that could make us credible to the world and to our own families? Community.… In ...

Thursday, October 16, 2025

The real tragedy is…

Psychologist John Powell submits that there are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young is not one of them. These are the tw...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Real change needs to happen

The road to ﬁnal victory on the issue of abortion is long, the task mammoth. Hearts need to change, relationships need to change, sexual pat...

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

When nobody shows up…

What kind of power may we seize upon to try to change this situation? Too many people, I am afraid, have placed their hopes in legal power, ...

Monday, October 13, 2025

"Normal" vs. the godly life

The human instinct is to deﬁne the normal by idiosyncratic preference and social consensus. We need to challenge this if religion is to have...

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jps: Red Wing, Minnesota, United States; I'm a freelance editor/proofreader in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.

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