Honestly hadn’t planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.
Andy Crouch
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Andy Crouch
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Partner @praxis_hq // Author, The Life We’re Looking For | The Tech-Wise Family | Strong & Weak | Playing God | Culture Making
- You will have "the right to die" for approximately 15 minutes before you start to feel "the obligation to die," which will be approximately 15 minutes before you are informed that (for the greater good, to be sure) you are "required to die."People should have the right to choose the manner of their death. Britain’s Parliament must not squander a rare chance to enrich fundamental liberties by voting against a law allowing assisted dying econ.st/4fD6Hm6
- Whenever I am with students I want to say, and often do say: The statistics tell us you are experiencing extraordinary levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. That is not because you are unhealthy people in a normal world. You are normal people in an unhealthy world.
- Very proud that my daughter came up with this title for her last paper of high school (assessing Robert Putnam's 2000 book on social capital 18 years later): "Scrolling Alone"
- If you're someone growing in celebrity, your first priority should be to build systems of unimpeachable independence and credibility that can hold you accountable. The problem is that almost no one who tastes celebrity makes this a priority.
- A therapist friend said to me today that—to a first approximation—all mental/emotional health is about learning to mourn. I'm going to be thinking about that for a long time.
- Fellow Christians, it is only the ninth day of Christmas. There are three more to go. I realize your resolve to feast and make merry may be flagging. We are not accustomed to prolonged joy. Stay strong! (And if you think this is hard, remember there are fifty days of Easter. :) )
- The classic elements of the spiritual life: solitude, silence, and fasting. The distinctive elements of American life: privacy, earbuds, and dieting. #techwise
- I have to say "no" to requests many, many times a day. Almost always people are understanding. They often say, "I know you are very busy." The truth is I am NOT very busy. I try not to be busy at all. But in order for that to be true, I have to say "no" many, many times a day.
- I have no Covid crystal ball (I had one briefly in March 2020, but I dropped it :) ) but I suspect this virus is not going to go away until almost literally every nation, every institution, and every political faction has been humbled by a foolish and misdirected response to it.
- It is regrettably true that some Christian "worship music" secretly wants to be a sweet pop love song, but it is much, much more true that every sweet pop love song secretly wants to be a worship song.
- New discipline I'm publicly committing to today (have been mulling this for a while): Use short, quick media like Twitter for praise, gratitude, and affirmation. Use longer, in-depth media like articles and books for critique and criticism.
- "I am quite glad that, if I had to live through a major natural disaster, I got to live through it alongside Texans." — my son (Rice '19)
- I’ve been playing with OpenAI for a couple weeks and with ChatGPT for (an embarrassing amount of) the past 24 hours, and I think it’s pretty clear—pending how these technologies get commercialized—that the era of homework, up through at least the second year of college, is over.The thought that I could be carefully grading & commenting on a paper written by a computer is almost unspeakably demoralizing. It goes beyond the idea that it’s merely an utterly futile waste of time to something much deeper that I can’t yet put in words.
