Recently found carrd.co–essentially a one-page website builder (more on the philosophy of the platform) made by a really good designer. It is incredibly easy to use, even normal people can do it (although using a custom domain is–as always–a bit of a technical process) Pricing is very reasonable as well.

Just switched our church website over to it from WordPress. Now, you won’t be creating some kind of spawling personal blog (like this site) or a massive online magazine with this–it’s for brochure sites, landing pages, small business sites, and so on.

And for that it is a Godsend. For real.

Once you start really pealing back the layers on the Old Testament, you realize it’s grace all the way down. That’s just how God works.

Why You Should Enable Privacy-Enhanced Mode on Your Embedded YouTube Videos

I’m starting to do this. I think might make sense as a common courtesy in today’s world.

Laura Sydell at NPR: Too Much Video Streaming To Choose From? It’s Only Going To Get Worse

Back to square one when it comes to saving costs on TV.

I’m headed to hike the Grand Canyon soon, so I wanted to try some new camp coffee that might be better than the instant stuff I brought on my last backpacking trip. This option from Kuju Coffee takes more space, but is infinitely more delicious.

Also, the product I linked to has individually wrapped portions, which is different than the ziplock package I picked up at REI.

Inspired by @simonwoods reflection on internet comments:

The question before our digitally-saturated culture is:

How can we intentionally design an internet-based medium that can promote a thoughtful text-based conversation?

That’s a tough nut to crack, and I’m not sure anyone has totally figured it out yet, but Micro.blog seems to be aware of things that clearly do not tend to facilitate civility and true conversation: unlimited hashtags, the “like” or “heart” button, etc.

It really seems that keeping our communities smaller helps too…and the lack of follower counts here on Micro.blog really de-incentivizes growing “connections” for all the the wrong reasons.

I love so much about how @manton and @jean are building what could become the most sane and human space on the Internet.

A Darkmode version of the Micro.blog timeline would be awesome.

“God doth justify the believing man, yet not for the worthiness of his belief, but for His worthiness who is believed.”

Richard Hooker, Definition of Justification, ch. XXXIII.

Shane Parrish:

Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.

Wow. This article is worth reading in its entirety (it’ll only take you a few minutes) and reflecting on at length. Really hits home for me, because I simply cannot be a specialist…as much as I would like to be! In fact, I have always wanted to be the best at something. This piece makes the case for being a generalist to better deal with a highly dynamic environments…and of that doesn’t describe my working life, I don’t know what does. I have to come to grips with the fact my calling is neither to be an academic, nor a monastic, nor a professional! I am parish priest.

Deleted Twitter, LinkedIN, MeWe. Deactivated Facebook, Messenger, Instagram. Uninstalled Reddit.

Feels weird.