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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

From _The Lost History of Christianity_ by Philip Jenkins #books #church #Christianity #history

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Remain in me and you will bear much fruit.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

You know that old image of the blind men and the elephant? This isn't that. From _The Lost History of Christianity_ by Philip Jenkins

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Home iced latte, in a Mason jar, against a Windows blue background

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

You're telling me the French for "milkshake" is "milkshake"? #duolingo #French #français #francais

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

What am I doing wrong on #microblog? I enter a post and the format is as intended on preview. However, I lose all my formatting on publication. I'm using the #mnml theme.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Grateful for significant rain after months of drought. The drought isn't over, but we're glad for what we receive.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

"That otherwise unremarkable tomb in Jerusalem thus became the womb of a new creation." Good morning!

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Pan de sal, iced coffee, and birdsong. Good morning! #tzag #breakfast

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

I've only downloaded a sample so far, but this is fascinating. The birds are all a-twitter and the morning is still cool. #tzag #books #Leviticus #Bible

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Happy Monday morning to you! Family is asleep and I'm on the back porch catching up on John Green's book _Everything is Tuberculosis_. (I recommend it.) Coffee is iced. The summertime heat has not yet hit, but give it time. How is your week starting?

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

# Children, not slaves Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Gal 4:7 NLT > Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir. To be a true worker is to know what your job requires and do it well. If you’re an […] [Original post on theres.life]

Weber kettle with meat and veggies cooking on its grate

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Putting in a trenched stone border next to a cement driveway. How to prevent water intrusion under the driveway? #diy #gardening #landscaping

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

The Cherokee Bible, one of the language’s first books, is a window between worldviews […] [Original post on theres.life]

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

@amin Saw this pillow at Costco and thought of you.

A pile of fruit-shaped pillows with a green avocado with brown pit front and center.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Who knows the band/strap width for a Casio MTP1183Q-9A? Our keepers have broken off and I'm no good at measuring tiny things. #CasioCult #watches #wristwatches

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

I've been listening to Wright Thompson's book _The Barn_. It's very hard to listen to, and an excellent book. One thing led to another, and I found this snippet from the writer in an Atlantic article. As a southerner, I cannot tell you how biting and insightful […] [Original post on theres.life]

I recently was a guest on a podcast for Southern Living, the house organ of the nostalgia set, and while talking about The Barn and the modern South, I mentioned the incontrovertible fact that the dominant working-class and agrarian breakfast in the South today is the breakfast taco, not the biscuit. People lost their minds. Some of the messages I got about biscuits were as angry as the ones I’ve gotten about telling the truth about Emmett Till. A reason emerged. The sausage biscuit, the country-ham biscuit, the biscuit covered with sawmill gravy—these are the only talismans left from a once-vibrant constellation of rural patterns and traditions. Almost nobody makes their own sage sausage in the smokehouse anymore. They buy it in a store owned by a publicly traded company. In many cases, an heirloom biscuit recipe, written on a 4-by-6 note card in your mother’s or grandmother’s looping blue ink, is the only part of the family farm that’s survived. By mentioning tacos, I was assaulting with inconvenient facts a final, frayed link to a familial past. Dismissing biscuits and naming names from 1955 were the same sin against the same doxology.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

#kagi translate: imitating the style of famous #authors.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

If you ever have a mind to better understand life in a distant place you've never heard anything good about from your local media, try zooming in on a city in Google Maps and reading some reviews. People are people. Let us love one another.

Google review of the Santo cafe in a distant land

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Copied from LinkedIn. "America's Richest People are Not its Most Generous" #philanthropy #giving #wealth

Table listing several obscenely wealthy persons and families, with net worths in hundreds of billions of dollars and estimated lifetime giving generally close to 1%. Warren Buffet is an outlier with 31.87%. The top two in the list, Elon Musk and Larry Page, are well below 1%.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Jesus quotes Isaiah promising captives will be released; prisoners will be set free. 1. To what degree is he talking about literal captives, literal prisoners? 2. What does that mean for his followers today? Discuss.#bible #Jesus #Isaiah #goodNews #discuss

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

A couple of thoughts from Judges 1. 1. I wonder if the story of the woman at the well has a callback to this story. 2. What the heck, Judah? Destroying the City of Peace? What a way to start this very violent book. #Bible

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

"Have been", not "might be if you do right". #Bible

Photo of Bible, focused on Colossians 3:1-4

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Documentation incomplete. Pronunciation missing. #fedora #kenoite

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

This is how I want to view politics. It's tough some days.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

So, a story about #fonts and #software . I am currently enamored of the Ovo font. I noticed SoftMaker Office, my main office bae nowadays, doesn't show Ovo as bold when I tell it to bold it. Nor does it export a PDF with the bolded parts bolded. LibreOffice […] [Original post on theres.life]

Isaiah 9 in the Ovo font, black on white.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
You have enlarged the nation of Israel and increased their joy;
They rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder.
For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,
you have shattered the yoke that burdens them,
the bar across their shoulders,
the rod of their oppressor.
Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. _He himself_ will redeem Israel from _all_ their sins. Psalm 130 #bible #christmas #goodNews

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Oh, now _that's_ a pretty font! #fonts

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

It is remarkable that the early Christian texts name John the Baptist as the greatest prophet of all time, and proceed to tell us almost nothing about him. That only makes sense as he is completely overshadowed by his little cousin Jesus, about whom the early […] [Original post on theres.life]

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness
Annibale Carracci

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