The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns
Enns argues that most of the Old Testament is not actually trying to get the historical events right: it is a narrative designed to help exiled Israel and doesn’t necessarily recount what happened or what God said or did. I find his arguments convincing. But, he says the Bible is still valuable for meeting God through the stories of how others met God. I’m not sure how to do that through stories that don’t always relay true things about God.
White Noise by Don Delillo
Since this is the first post-modern fiction I’ve read, I can’t tell if the theme of this book is that you can’t know anything for sure, or if that’s just all post-modern books. The public-health-communication context hit pretty hard, though.
Also, I think this Adam Driver movie is going to be great. It’s basically a thriller.
There should be a “Jack Antonoff Ruined My Favorite Band” club. How do I start a Facebook group?
I left an IntelliJ debugger running yesterday, so this morning I pulled my laptop out of my bag hot, fan running, and out of battery and all I could think was “same.”