Chris Hubbs
@chrishubbs.com
Software nerd, musician, lay theologian, husband, dad. Iowan. Christian universalist. Episcopalian. LGBTQ ally. Cubs fan.
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Sometimes on a Friday you just need a hit of @lyz.bsky.social clarity.
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes on a Friday you just need a hit of @lyz.bsky.social clarity.
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Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?
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December 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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It’s hard to get morning runs in when you’re on work travel, especially in the winter. Finally but the bullet this morning and set the alarm early. Disliked it at 5:30 but man do I feel better after 3 miles on the treadmill.
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It’s hard to get morning runs in when you’re on work travel, especially in the winter. Finally but the bullet this morning and set the alarm early. Disliked it at 5:30 but man do I feel better after 3 miles on the treadmill.
Well, Iowa - Iowa State was a heckuva women’s basketball game. Audi Crooks is a FORCE. Hawks kept it competitive but needed a guard to catch fire if they wanted to win, and just didn’t get that. Still a hugely entertaining game.
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Well, Iowa - Iowa State was a heckuva women’s basketball game. Audi Crooks is a FORCE. Hawks kept it competitive but needed a guard to catch fire if they wanted to win, and just didn’t get that. Still a hugely entertaining game.
In DC this week for work. Sounds cool, in reality is sitting in meetings all day for 3 days in a row and it being dark by the time we’re done every day. Ah well.
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In DC this week for work. Sounds cool, in reality is sitting in meetings all day for 3 days in a row and it being dark by the time we’re done every day. Ah well.
Oh dang.
the reason a catchall term like "evangelical" even exists is an attempt to recognize that, across many different Christian denominations, there is an anti-intellecual, vibes-based agreement on who Jesus is and how a student might best follow him - and - it's definitely not by sharpening their mind
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Oh dang.
My old AppleTV HD (2015) is starting to feel very slow. Would be happy to replace it but the current newest AppleTV available is still 3 years old. They’ve been rumoring a new one for months… will see how long I can put up with the lagginess while waiting for Apple to release the new one.
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My old AppleTV HD (2015) is starting to feel very slow. Would be happy to replace it but the current newest AppleTV available is still 3 years old. They’ve been rumoring a new one for months… will see how long I can put up with the lagginess while waiting for Apple to release the new one.
Brilliant. Also: their evangelical training has promised them that all of this unorderedness should be able to be corrected with appropriate amounts of prayer and discipline. It's terrifying when that parenting fantasy falls apart.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Brilliant. Also: their evangelical training has promised them that all of this unorderedness should be able to be corrected with appropriate amounts of prayer and discipline. It's terrifying when that parenting fantasy falls apart.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
2025 Reads: We Did Ok, Kid by Anthony Hopkins 📚
I’ve enjoyed Hopkins since seeing him in The Remains of the Day. His memoir here is brisk and easy to read, but you get the sense that he has slowly done the work to come to peace with and acceptance of himself. May we all be willing to do that work.
I’ve enjoyed Hopkins since seeing him in The Remains of the Day. His memoir here is brisk and easy to read, but you get the sense that he has slowly done the work to come to peace with and acceptance of himself. May we all be willing to do that work.
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
2025 Reads: We Did Ok, Kid by Anthony Hopkins 📚
I’ve enjoyed Hopkins since seeing him in The Remains of the Day. His memoir here is brisk and easy to read, but you get the sense that he has slowly done the work to come to peace with and acceptance of himself. May we all be willing to do that work.
I’ve enjoyed Hopkins since seeing him in The Remains of the Day. His memoir here is brisk and easy to read, but you get the sense that he has slowly done the work to come to peace with and acceptance of himself. May we all be willing to do that work.
This just made my head explode
Marge Attacks, or whatever that movie was called
This is such a powerful image
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This just made my head explode
quote with your model of masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
quote with your model of masculinity
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I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA
Apparently there are vendors now that will make custom tropical shirt fabric prints; my department found one and now we have shirts with our test aircraft on them, including the correct N-number. Yeah, we’re nerds.
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Apparently there are vendors now that will make custom tropical shirt fabric prints; my department found one and now we have shirts with our test aircraft on them, including the correct N-number. Yeah, we’re nerds.
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Harini just makes my heart sing. So many small moments grounded in our entire history, delivered in an entirely unique vision that feels like the future. They are amazing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Harini just makes my heart sing. So many small moments grounded in our entire history, delivered in an entirely unique vision that feels like the future. They are amazing.
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My One Album a Day for yesterday—which I’m just catching up to this morning—is Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton from 1966. My first familiarity with Clapton was his Unplugged. I was in high school. This is… not that. Lordy, this guy’s electric guitar smokes. (Some hot blues organ in there, too!)
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Deluxe Edition) by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers on Apple Music
Album · 1966 · 24 Songs
music.apple.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My One Album a Day for yesterday—which I’m just catching up to this morning—is Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton from 1966. My first familiarity with Clapton was his Unplugged. I was in high school. This is… not that. Lordy, this guy’s electric guitar smokes. (Some hot blues organ in there, too!)
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Oh man I almost forgot about cool ranch doritos
could y'all imagine giving ppl a cooler ranch dorito two hundred years ago? they may have persecuted you for being a witch
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Oh man I almost forgot about cool ranch doritos
This essay “Evangelicalism: A Love Story” is lovely writing. But the author works hard to redefine the word “evangelical” so that he can have the provocative framing. Growing up Methodist and having a dalliance with Catholicism before becoming Anglican isn’t what most of us know as “evangelical”.
Evangelicalism: A Love Story
While many have left evangelicalism behind, others have benefited from the quiet faithfulness of everyday evangelicals.
comment.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This essay “Evangelicalism: A Love Story” is lovely writing. But the author works hard to redefine the word “evangelical” so that he can have the provocative framing. Growing up Methodist and having a dalliance with Catholicism before becoming Anglican isn’t what most of us know as “evangelical”.
This is not usually how wine gets discussed at the office: https://chrishubbs.com/2025/12/03/this-is-not-usually-how/
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 9:17 - New International Version
Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
www.biblegateway.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is not usually how wine gets discussed at the office: https://chrishubbs.com/2025/12/03/this-is-not-usually-how/
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Muppet Christmas Carol
What is the message of A Christmas Carol if not "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand?"
The ax is at the root of the tree, Scrooge.
What is the message of A Christmas Carol if not "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand?"
The ax is at the root of the tree, Scrooge.
What’s the best advent movie?
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Muppet Christmas Carol
What is the message of A Christmas Carol if not "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand?"
The ax is at the root of the tree, Scrooge.
What is the message of A Christmas Carol if not "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand?"
The ax is at the root of the tree, Scrooge.
Today’s One Album A Day for me is Emperor Tomato Ketchup from Stereolab.
There’s no way I would’ve been ready for this in 1996 when it came out; almost 30 years later I’m really digging it.
There’s no way I would’ve been ready for this in 1996 when it came out; almost 30 years later I’m really digging it.
Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Album by Stereolab | Spotify
Stereolab · album · 1996 · 13 songs
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Today’s One Album A Day for me is Emperor Tomato Ketchup from Stereolab.
There’s no way I would’ve been ready for this in 1996 when it came out; almost 30 years later I’m really digging it.
There’s no way I would’ve been ready for this in 1996 when it came out; almost 30 years later I’m really digging it.
Crucial Track for December 2, 2025: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cjhubbs/20251202
When Your Mind's Made Up by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová on Apple Music
Song · 2007 · Duration 3:41
music.apple.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Crucial Track for December 2, 2025: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cjhubbs/20251202
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