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By now you have probably seen Anderson Cooper and Steven Colbert talk about suffering and grief. If not, have a look. Tolkien uses the words doom and gift to refer to the same things: both the immortality of elves and the mortality of men.
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors just released a new album.
Come to Andrew Peterson’s 20th anniversary Behold the Lamb of God concert with us.
I wonder where multi-site churches like The Summit Church will be in ten years’ time. I suspect there is a bubble there that will naturally burst, though I pray it happens gently. I wonder if the same is true on a longer timescale (twenty years?) for large denominations over against local semi-formal church networks. Rosenstock-Huessy observes a natural tribe-kingdom-empire cycle in history. If he is right, there is going to be some kind of unexpected metastasis where great institutions everywhere scintillate into smaller forms. We should be cultivating strong local connections anyway, but it will serve us and the church particularly well if such a transition occurs.
A friend recommended B.R.A.K.E.S. driving school very highly. We were able to get Ivy into an upcoming session.
It’s not too early to register to run the 2020 Tobacco Road Half Marathon with Charlotte, Asher, and me.
I gotta have my orange juice. 
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