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Theology in Taylor Swift’s Midnights
I’ve chosen three songs that got me thinking a lot about the messages they send: “Anti-Hero,” “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” and “Karma.” As with any culture I consume, I read these songs through my Reformed, biblical worldview.
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I am resting, resting…
This week, there’s something very simple I think I need to remind myself about making my time the most profitable I possibly can: Sometimes that means I need to rest.
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“Get Better or Get Bitter”
“Resolved, never to do anything, which if I should see in another, I should count a just occasion to despise him for, or to think any way the more meanly of him.” Put another way, “If I’m going to hold someone to any kind of standard, I better be meeting that standard myself.”
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The Whole Truth
I don’t know where any of my personal relationships will go in 2024, but I do know that I want each one of them to be marked by honesty. If I have to lie to keep a relationship, I don’t want it.
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Reformed Tipping Culture
Servers encounter a moral dilemma here: How much of your cash tips do you declare?
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New Year 2024
Every year, it seems like I see more and more memes about “dead week,” the week between Christmas and the New Year that’s “sluggish” and “the strangest week of the year,” when “time seems to have no meaning.” Friends shared these memes to their Instagram stories, unofficially giving each other permission to get nothing done during this…
Detroit, Reformed. 