Yes this is not because of theology but because they live in B*ston (or, say, Surrey) and have mortgages

not that there's anything wrong with being bourgeois! just like, get out of the house a little

not believing in miracles isn't even a worldview thing so much as it is a social thing: a matter of being bourgeois, not knowing many non-Westerners, and/or not knowing many Catholics or Charismatics

after spending a couple years in a Charismatic church (vineyard) all the handwringing about They Flew is so funny to me.

'But is he SAYING that MIRACLES could actually have HAPPENED?'

yeah brah my housemate kristi was in a wheelchair & got healed & then ran the Boston marathon

An unusual take from this source. Henry, don’t you hold that nature is vicious and evil due to the fall?

I object to Alexander here

You have to figure out what you’re earnest about and commit to it. Do whatever else but don’t fail to do that.

Trinitarian Pentecostals have more in common with Roman Catholics than they do with Oneness Pentecostals. Kind of crazy to realize that.

ὁ δέντρο φυτόν πολιτικὸν... idk how one would say this

TREES ARE BY NATURE POLITICAL ANIMALS

so many things wrong with that but still

NOW ITS MYCELIUM NETWORKS

Joy describing Robert Kirk's apologetic argument from faeries:

'You atheists have your rationalistic arguments, but faeries *exist.* So how does *that* play into your atheistic worldview?'

and Robert Kirk's Secret Commonwealth, and Piranesi, and Philip Pullman

we are letting our FREAK flag fly here

'There might be more to the world than we notice. To notice those spiritual dimensions, we might have to train ourselves in attention.'

Joy Marie Clarkson ☀️

oh yeah we're talking about Barfield

'The thing about language is that it's pretty much impossible to speak literally. So we are always using metaphors, and we're not always using them carefully. And so I think one of the biggest dangers of metaphor is that we forget that it's a metaphor.' --Joy Marie Clarkson ☀️