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#mambamonday feat. Kobe’s final run at the chip in 2010 🐍🏆

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Books for spiritual formation

Books that have left an indelible mark on my understanding of God or the Christian faith in some way. My spiritual development is unfinished, so this list is unfinished - I'm always open to suggestions

Soren Kierkegaard

The Sickness Unto Death - Explained how sin works psychologically, illustrates how it can be its own punishment

Works of Love - What it means to love, what it costs, what it gives us

Fear and Trembling - What faith means, its miraculous nature

Karl Barth

Evangelical Theology - What theology actually means, how the gospel is good news

The Epistle to the Romans - Shows the need for continual reformation of thought within the church, introduced (to me) the idea of God's freedom in communication to man

Church Dogmatics II.2 - Election is good news! It is God willing to choose humanity despite sin - universal reconciliation can and should be hoped for

The Journal of John Woolman

What undying commitment to justice means, what it looks like

Martin Luther King Jr

Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Made me understand how Romans 13:1 can be integrated into radical politics

A Gift of Love - Brought to life 1 John 4:20

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

A narrative illustration of unwavering faith

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas Kempis

What we're saved to, salvation has a telos

Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood - Life without Christ, the perils of sola scriptura

A Good Man is Hard to Find - Shows grace as an intrusive lived experience

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead novels (Gilead, Home, Lila) - Rich illustration of Imago Dei

When I Was a Child I Read Books - Bolstered my understanding of the 8th commandment (reading with charitable intent, in interactions with others in life and on the page)

What Are We Doing Here? - Illustrates what the glory of God means in daily experience

Garry Wills

What Paul Meant - Paul and Jesus were of a unified mind, stop reading Paul as a bible thumper, start reading him as a man who loved dearly and wrote with urgency on live issues

Religio Medici, Thomas Browne

Ecumenism is a beautiful thing and should be strived for in all Christian communities

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

The gospel brings peace of mind and soul, searching for peace is a valid epistemology

Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

Wickedness is not inevitable, it arises from moral and intellectual sluggardliness

The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn to love the church, it is the arms of Christ; great exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount; great companion to the book of James

White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by racism at the root

Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes du Mez

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by misogyny at the root

C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce - Eternity begins now, sin is its own punishment and grace is its own reward

Till We Have Faces - God has compassion and patience for those who wrestle with him, to summon the boldness to contend with God can be a blessed thing

The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich

The dynamics of Christian faith explained in the abstract

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The thinness of intellectual assent, the richness of faith

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker

Explanation of the existential need faith meets in the language of continental philosophy

Confessions, St. Augustine

The most theologically and philosophically rich testimony besides that of St. Paul

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity, Jonathan Edwards

What is the trinity, why is it important

John Milton

Areopagitica - Enforced virtue means nothing

Paradise Lost - Human beings are worth saving even if they aren't deserving of God's favor

Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud

Illustrates the necessity of grace by exploring a world through the assumption of its absence (excellent foil to A Gift of Love)

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Know he was stressing 😂😂😂

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Inkmas #4: Kobe City Museum Gray

Welcome to Inkmas Day 4! I recently found a gorgeous new color from Kobe �� City Museum Gray. The ink looks like  a warm mug of hot chocolate – not just in the swatch, but in writing as well. Depending on your paper, your nib, and the lighting, this ink can appear anywhere from a warm gray to an unsaturated light brown. The color reminds me of Montblanc Swan Illusion, but City Museum has less…

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Jaylen Brown, Kyrie Irving, Kobe Bryant, Joel Embiid e LeBron James já usaram máscaras pretas num jogo da NBA. Apenas LeBron James foi oficialmente comunicado de que seria mais conveniente se ele a evitasse. Por quê?

Em 2014, o LeBron quebrou o nariz numa partida contra o OKC. Uma semana depois, voltou às quadras em grande estilo: jogando em casa, contra o New York Knicks, o Miami com o uniforme todo preto e ele surge com uma máscara protetora também toda preta. Foi uma cena e tanto. O Miami Heat acabou passando o carro no Knicks, o LeBron terminou com 31 pontos e essa foi a única vez que ele pode entrar em quadra usando essa máscara.

Na época, a NBA alegou que os adversários não conseguiam ver o rosto do LeBron direito, especialmente os olhos, e que isso dava a ele uma vantagem indevida sobre a marcação. A liga não chegou a proibir e máscara formalmente, não existe uma regra que a cite, mas ficou claro que era melhor evitar.

A argumentação em si parecia fazer sentido, mas era um pouco estranha, já que o LeBron não era o primeiro cara a usar uma máscara preta - Kobe e Kyrie já haviam usado dois anos antes - mas James acabou sendo o primeiro cara a ser notificado de que não devia.

Por isso, imaginei que não veríamos mais as máscaras pretas na NBA depois de 2014, só que - em 2018 - Joel Embiid estreou nos playoffs com uma. E depois voltou a usá-la em 2022. E agora Jaylen Brown está usando uma máscara preta em 2023. Ou seja, ENGAMBELARAM o papai.

Só existe uma explicação possível: os caras ficaram com medo desse homem de máscara preta. Não basta ser melhor do que geral, ainda tem que parecer a porra do Batman 2.0? E o mais interessante dessa história é que o tiro saiu pela culatra: uma semana depois, jogando com uma máscara transparente, James fez 61 pontos, a maior marca da sua carreira até hoje. Há!

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Consegui achar imagens de jogadores com máscaras a partir do começo da década de 1960, com uns baita trambolhos. Vemos o Dolph Schayes do Syracuse Nationals (atual Philadelphia 76ers) em 1961. Wilt Chamberlain em 1964, Oscar Robertson em 1967.

Daí, já na década de 1970, vemos a versão mais assustadora de todas, do Curtis Perry, que veio pro jogo com uma máscara de goleiro de hockey que mais parecia saída dos filmes do Jason.

Quem estreou a versão mais comum das máscaras da NBA, que é a de plástico transparente, foi o Bill Laimbeer, pivô dos Bad Boys de Detroit, em 1991. E o cara que a imortalizou também era do Detroit, o Rip Hamilton, que, depois de fraturar o nariz pela segunda vez, nunca mais deixou de usá-la nos jogos.

A última novidade no mundo das máscaras quem introduziu foi o próprio Joel Embiid, que usou pela primeira vez num jogo da NBA uma máscara feita de carbono e policarbonato, materiais mais resistentes e leves.

De qual versão você mais gostou?

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the power of juno (3) ☆

🌟 juno is an asteroid representing the ancient roman goddess of the same name. she is the wife of jupiter and is equated to the greek goddess hera, who is the queen of the gods.

🌟 i have noticed that people with prominent juno in their natal charts are elevated amongst their peers. there is literal royalty here as well, or people with honorary titles / have played royalty.

🌟 they are all crazily attractive (or were) visually, but regardless of visual beauty, their energy and the way these natives carry themselves is immaculate. they tend to come across as open and welcoming as opposed to intimidating when compared to lilith natives, for example.

🌟 royal / religious natives ⌵

prince william, grace kelly, queen elizabeth ii, pope john paul ii, jesus

🌟 played royalty / characters with royal titles ⌵

cameron diaz (princess fiona), margot robbie (duchess of bayridge), anne hathaway (princess of genovia), catherina zeta jones (catherine the great)

🌟 figures with honorary titles ⌵

aaliyah (princess of r&b), beyoncé (queen bey), jungkook (golden maknae), britney spears (princess of pop), michael jackson (king of pop)

🌟 miscellaneous ⌵

mila kunis, brigitte bardot, chris brown, harry styles, robin williams, fred astaire, elton john, pharrell williams, novak djokovic, david beckham, abraham lincoln, kobe bryant, rafael nadal, rihanna