For a deeper dive on all of this, you can also listen to the David’s Flightless Bird pod this week. open.spotify.com/episode/1wKK...

Thanks Joy!

Nespresso is all George Clooney marketing and that’s it. Nothing else good about it imo. I usually drink pour over… but I’d rather have instant than waste money on Nespresso.

Exactly. Regardless of the arguments for and against types of free speech, I wish the absolutists would admit that they’re not actually absolutists. We’re actually always in negotiation about what speech we think should be allowed or not.

It’s amazing how the concept of free speech can be so easily manipulated and weaponised to stifle alternative voices. The irony in Nth America of right wing free speech advocates burning and/or banning books that contain stories or characters they don’t like.

Even though we might not always feel in control, or even “safe”, a God of love, compassion, witness and solidarity can at least feel authentic, comforting and grounding in the midst of this experience of being human.

We then find ourselves having to justify God to ourselves and to each other. I eventually tired of having to keep that logic loop working and have had to find new ways of making sense of God and the world.

We can tell ourselves that if a God is in control, then ultimately everything will be ok, which is a very understandable impulse. But for many of us, at some point we realise this means that God’s “plan” seems to involve a lot of indiscriminate pain and suffering.

Just circling back to say I went last night and loved it! Thanks so much for the recommendation :) the music and musicianship was amazing. Galadriel was so good, the balrog scene was awesome too. So much goodness!

But sameness is the religion of empire and deeply dehumanising, stifling the voices of those who don’t have the power to decide who belongs and who does not. Belonging only truly becomes meaningful when it is connected to acceptance as we are, rather than reliant on our conforming.