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.
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Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
“Cross My Heart and Hope to Die” marks a distinctively different sound from the early days of Yumi Zouma. The track kicks off their new album, No Love Lost to Kindness. With their first couple of EPs, especially, the New Zealand band distinguished themselves with a fresh, balearic, breezy sound. The tunes were as light as air, and even the the subject of difficult interpersonal relationships came across with just a sigh and a shrug.
(more…)Fediverse reactions
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I’m really disappointed in the Hopscotch Festival 2006 lineup, which dropped yesterday. There is only one band I would be interested in seeing (Pearl and the Oysters). The festival seems to have cut back, eliminating one main stage, reducing water stations, less social media, etc.
