Bethany Borgschatz > Recent Status Updates

I’m almost 100 pages in and I think it might be a DNF for me. It’s choppy and I can’t say I love the characters. The constant misogyny is exhausting.

Experiencing trauma is not a time to religious recruit. It’s a time to sit in the ashes with others and be quiet.

What if instead of conversion we (church culture) need to foster more of on conversation. Instead of a one time “alter call” we could breathe and preach fostering a relationship with the Spirit within us that is driving us to be closer to the God of our creation. This takes time and patient discipleship as a religious experience over a one time evangelistic event.

"I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong."

August 8, 1986

And this, ladies and gentle moons is how my whole new Star Wars adventure began! Like an acid flashback, only intergalactic, in the moment, and essentially real!

"Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some."

Thoroughly enjoying this beautifully written and intelligent book. "People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is a rainbow arch across a stormy sky."

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with.

Cycling ever downwards in every direction while looking for stairs...

"Reviling people you share a combat outpost with is an incredibly stupid thing to do, and public figures who imagine there nation isn't, potentially, one huge combat outpost are deluding themselves."

"Personal gain almost completely eclipses collective good"

"High unit cohesion is correlated with lower rates of psychiatric breakdown."