I solved the Saturday 11/25/2023 New York Times Daily Crossword in 33:13!

That might be a record for me.

How's that for a reflection?

Ticking another stadium off the list tonight. I have to say, the Minnesotans are kinder hosts than I had in the Bronx.

'Grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon.'
- G.K. Chesterton.

'God is not satisfied with finding his creation good; he wants it also to find itself good.' Simone Weil

How are we doing on that one?

I wonder how Paul Bloom would respond to this, given his 'The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning'. Or Rebecca Solnit given her 'A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster'?

Whose kids would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with for all eternity?

'He told me at one point that the diagnosis of a fatal disease had profoundly intensified his appreciation of beauty in all things, and given him a different and richer kind of happiness than he had known before.'

READ: biologos.org/post/a-tribute…

I didn't have a personal relationship with Tim Keller (I hosted one livestream with him). But someone I know and respect greatly -- Francis Collins -- did have a close relationship with Keller. And his tribute makes me wish I had known him too. biologos.org/post/a-tribute…

Jim Stump

This conversation was about suffering and death during the pandemic, but Keller's words strike us in a new way today. Rest in peace.

Recorded a conversation with Ellen Davis Duke Divinity School yesterday about an agrarian reading of the OT. Listen for it this fall on a podcast series about food.

Language of God episode came out today with Francis Collins and Deb Liu, who is the CEO of Ancestry, and a former VP at Facebook. We talked about genetics, women in tech and science, Christianity in tech and science. Lots of fun.