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Samuel James

@samueldjames.bsky.social
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Author (Digital Liturgies). Editor @ Crossway.

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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I gotta be real: as much as bot accounts became a problem on Twitter/X, I feel like they’re way *worse* here. It looks like at least a full third of my followers are not actual people
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Never ever forget that the inhumane despair facing so many of us was enabled, not first by Silicon Valley or activists, but by scientism. You don’t hate scientism enough.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Really shocked Harbaugh accepted that 2nd and 30 holding penalty. You’re just begging for some kind of defensive penalty by doing that….
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
My latest substack is about modern malaise. How is it that in a Tinder culture we don’t touch each other? And in a pluralistic society we don’t talk to each other? What can the church say about this? www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
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The Worst of All Possible Worlds
A Christian apologetic of malaise
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wyclif @wyclif.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
IMO this was *the* graphic of 2024
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
local news headline that is indisputably, eternally true
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I had the privilege of reading this book in draft stage. It is superb. Even if you think you know Keller’s spiritual theology well, the organization and context Matt gives it makes it fresh and newly encouraging. Cannot recommend this more. www.amazon.com/Tim-Keller-C...
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Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel [Smethurst, Matt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
36 today.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Kids, have a seat. Now. I know you’ve all been reading the news lately. But I have something to tell you, about a pardon for all offenses that’s much more important, and comes from a much more powerful Person…
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
10000%
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Frankincense Myrrh Gold Prophet Priest King ?
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Confession: I like John Wayne, always have, and I think Du Mez’s book is a mess that got a pass unjustly.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanksgiving meets Christmas. “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk. 2:11) “Unto you.” Most precious words in that verse. We give thanks for what we have. The angels told us: we have Jesus. Forever grateful.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
No conference or retreat ever unearths more about your marriage than moving furniture does
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The doldrums of a 10+ year old marriage and kids who are growing up really do limit how self-focused adults can be. That’s a bad reason to blow up your life, and a good reason to let go of therapeutic selfishness. Good column:
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Most savage JJ Abrams subtweet I’ve ever seen
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Ian Harber @ianharber.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I said this over on the other site not long ago and I’m convinced we’re going to continue to see it play out. Progressive Christians will end up being laggards on these issues as they become more important and they won’t just be lagging behind conservative Christians, but behind secular liberals.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
☹️
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
An interesting hypothesis from Ben Sixsmith: Red-pilled misogyny meets a psychological need for men who are frustrated and ashamed by their porn use. Gives both rationalization—“women want this anyway”—and a sense of escape.
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Charles Taylor Swift @charlestaylorswift.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil. Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
61 years ago today three men died on the same day: John F Kennedy, Alduous Huxley, and CS Lewis. Camelot is gone. The Brave New World is eating itself. But Narnia remains. A piece I wrote last year for World: wng.org/opinions/a-p...
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A prophetic voice rings out
Samuel D. James | Sixty years later, C.S. Lewis speaks to the needs of our times
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Charles Taylor Swift @charlestaylorswift.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Modern “secularization” can be seen from one angle as the rejection of higher times, and the positing of time as purely profane. I don’t know about you But I’m feeling twenty-two!
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Charles Taylor Swift @charlestaylorswift.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Our language has lost its constitutive power. This means that we can deal instrumentally with realities around us, but their deeper meaning is ignored and often invisible to us. I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Congrats to Judge Judy on her forthcoming nomination for attorney general
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s just hard to expel the idea from my mind that the Antioch Statement exists for no other reason than that certain pastors have realized the checks they’ve been cashing were signed by genuinely wicked people, and the goal now is to let friends know that you know that, without losing the checks
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Public discourse itself, separated from the standard of truth, creates on its part, the more it prevails, an atmosphere of epidemic proneness and vulnerability to the reign of the tyrant.”
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kate shellnutt @kateshellnutt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Lifeway and Crossway are releasing their first Bibles in a dyslexia-friendly typeface, starting with a kids Bible that comes with colored overlays for reading. www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/dysl...
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And the Word Became Accessible: Publishers Release Dyslexia-Friendly Bibles - Christianity Today
Designer hopes a new custom typeface will be a life-changing tool for those with reading disorders.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I used to think “political idolatry”was a big problem. Not anymore. www.digitalliturgies.net/p/its-not-po...
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It's Not Political Idolatry. It's Boredom.
I’ve used the phrase “political idolatry” before.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/11/2024
I know this is Bluesky and it is an echo chamber but I still must insist on challenging the conventional wisdom: kids don’t need to carry water bottles all over the place all the time.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Everyone needs a novel that’s more like a friend. This one is mine.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It’s interesting to see how when links aren’t throttled on a social media feed, the topics of conversation expand. X’s self-referential algorithm pretty much guarantees people are only going to be interested in high-dopamine topics (read: politics)
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
HarperCollins is offering its authors $2500 if they will allow their work to be fed to AI. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...
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HarperCollins Inks AI Licensing Deal for Nonfiction Books
A new licensing agreement between HarperCollins and an undisclosed AI company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performan...
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Ian Harber @ianharber.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
follow Derek plz
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ross Douthat’s latest essay is one of the best things I’ve read this year, and without a doubt the most sensible, realistic election take yet www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Put an End to an Era. The Future Is Up for Grabs.
The post-Cold War era has ended, and we’re not going back.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ok this is the best version I’ve seen so far
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“If success is your god, and you fail, it will never forgive you. If love and romance is your god, and you fail, it will never forgive you. Jesus is the only God who is worthy of your worship and forgives you when you fail to give it.” - Tim Keller
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good points
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Me when I write a book about how social media deforms us but then also sign up for Bluesky
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
100% agree. But even the algorithmic behavior conditioning is dependent on crowd size. Internet is better when it’s smaller
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The “advantage” of this app over X is simple: there’s a lot fewer people here. Everything everyone hates about social media is about people. There is no depravity-proof tech.
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
An entry in my unexpected series on how the digital world is inflected by gender www.digitalliturgies.net/p/11-theses-...
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11 Theses on Instagram and the Modern Woman
Of all the major social media apps of the last 20 years, Instagram is the most distinctly feminine. Compared to its peers, IG is a beautiful app. It feels. It has a humane and relational texture that ...
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Austin Ekeler is so much fun to watch
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Samuel James @samueldjames.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Who’s here?
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