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Breaking bad habits

02.13.2020 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Neon sign against brick with the words Bad Habits
Photo by Manan Chhabra on Unsplash

Routines are not habits, alas.

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What I’m reading:
Wm. Curtis Holtzen’s The God Who Trusts

01.22.2020 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Cover of The God Who Trusts

An atheist reviewing a theology book? He must be a friend of the author.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // christianity, curtis holtzen, open and relational theism, the reign, theology, thomas jay oord

The best, etc., of 2019

12.30.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Orange sunset over water

Not that it makes any difference, really — the year was what it was, and no amount of whining will change that — but I’m not a big fan of 2019.

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Christianity Today, today

12.23.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Neon sign of the word "AMEN"
Photo by Steve Harvey on Unsplash

I have mixed feelings about Mark Galli’s editorial in Christianity Today, which calls for Trump’s removal from office.

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Christmas music… bah!

12.16.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Sheet music for Stille Nacht

I might not mind a war on Christmas, if it meant I wouldn’t be assaulted with Christmas music everywhere I go.

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A self-fulfilling illogic

12.10.2019 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Plume of smoke from erupting volcano on White Island in New Zealand
White Island volcano in New Zealand, erupting on Dec. 8, 2019. Photo by Michael Schade (@sch on Twitter).

I know that there are people who deny the urgency of the climate crisis, but I am still taken aback when stumble upon them.

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On favorites

12.09.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Julie Andrews sings My Favorite Things to the children in Sound of Music

I’ve recently become suspicious of my favorite things.

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10dmc #day11: Honorable mentions

12.02.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Movie projector in smoke
Photo by Jeremy Yap on Unsplash

Two things killed me about the 10-Day Movie Challenge, which I got sucked into on Facebook: presenting the films without explanation, and selecting only ten movies. 

But, as I said way back when, I have a blog, which means I can ignore those rules. So I explained each of the ten films — and now, since ten films was just too hard, here are my 10DMC Honorable Mentions.

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10DMC #day10: The Matrix

11.25.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Matrix code

I love movies. When I sit down to watch a film, I expect to enjoy myself, and my standards are low enough that I’m rarely disappointed. Often, I’m wowed. But I can think of only three films that have made me feel genuine awe. I’ve written about two of them in this 10-day movie challenge series: the original Star Wars, and Blade Runner.

The third is The Matrix.

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10DMC #day9: Midnight Run

11.18.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

De Niro and Groden in the desert

I’ve seen Midnight Run all the way through only three or four times. But—way back when—I had a roommate who subscribed to HBO, and, for the month or so that it was showing, I watched it from whatever point I stumbled up on it—ten minutes here, an hour there… in terms of accumulated minutes, I’ve sat in front of that film more than any other except, perhaps, The Matrix.

I couldn’t get enough of it.

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