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What Exactly Are We Never Forgetting?
You’ve heard the calls to #NeverForget. Tragedy and trauma bring out sudden calls for solidarity and collective memory. As if time whisks away such frightening moments like a vapor. A morning mist dried by the first direct rays of sun. That this is in direct contrast to our society’s instruction in the midst of personal tragedy is…
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Did Not Know Joseph
How forgetting church history can mutate the future Did Not Know Joseph (Day 26 of A Simple Lent) | Thursday To understand our church history, we should look no further than the move from Genesis to Exodus. While it certainly doesn’t explain the history itself, it reveals that human tendency to lose sight of who we are and…
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I can only hold 2 things in my brain at once
I’m going to the store! I tell her. We need milk for cereal in the morning. There isn’t enough in the fridge. I grab the keys. [bctt tweet=”‘There isn’t room in my brain for any of these other things.’” nofollow=”yes”] Do we need anything else? We could use some bread. She tells me. and some…
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Your Nostalgia Campaign is Too On the Nose
The sign on a local McDonald’s reads: Famous faves priced to save Something about this line strikes me wrong. Very much so.