Good morning from Fort Worth, Texas. I’m here to speak at the Called to Counsel conference and am looking forward to meeting some of you along the way.

I added some Kindle deals yesterday morning and, as always, will look for more first thing today.

(Yesterday on the blog: Optimistic Denominationalism)

For Everything There is a Seasoning

This is a wonderful piece of writing. “Now that the house was finally empty, it did not take long for silence to rush in and fill that rather large vacuum left by aunts, uncles, grandparents, children of all shapes and sizes, and all manner of distant relations. The silence was welcome for once. In light of the past few weeks I, to some degree, began to understand why Bilbo chose to slip away from his own birthday party in a cloak of invisibility rather than suffer the insufferable commotion that—good intentions aside—friends and family can stir up.”

Influencer Culture Is Toxic for Teenagers

This is a really good article that looks at more than influencer culture and teenagers. There’s lots here to challenge all of us.

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