New crowd assessment: the Braves fans got here early, but the Nats fans showed up for the home team and are ready to make some noise. Nats up 5-2 in the second.
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If the cheers at those back-to-back homers are any indication, there are far more Braves fans than Nats fans in attendance here in DC tonight.
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Hi, I'm Chris.
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If humans hadn't sinned, would Christ have still come?
I love this bit from Ilia Delio in The Not-Yet God, summarizing a thought from Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus:
The reason for the incarnation, then, is not sin but love. Christ is first in God’s intention to love. The incarnation is the unrepeatable, unique, and single defining act of God’s love. Thus, even if sin had not entered the universe through the human person, Christ would have come.
That’s good news, my friends.
More recent longform writing...
- Chris Arnade on American vs European values and "the good life"
- My talks at Christ Episcopal Church Adult Forum, May 2025
- State champ!
- Wanting to be anti-Trump while disavowing culpability
- Freedom from the compulsion to pretend: Mtr. Kelli Joyce on gender traditions and the fruit of the spirit
- Mtr. Kelli Joyce on the Fruit of the Spirit and gender expression
- Choir performance this weekend!
- Self-justification is the heavy burden because there is no end to carrying it
- Something has happened that makes the entire process of self-justification irrelevant
- The Beatitudes (Brian Zahnd Version)