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Myrtle

by Tyler Dirks

I met a victim named Myrtle (הֲדַסָּה‎), and I offered her my ardent advocacy. However, instead of anchoring her hope to ardent advocacy, Myrtle opted to exercise her agency. She used her agency to gain mastery over those who hated her, and she coordinated a campaign to kill and destroy those who sought to kill […]

See What Sticks

by Tyler Dirks

There once was a lady named أناهي ميريام جولدسكريبت. Her obsession was to throw noodles at the wall and watch them stick! Her ardent and unyielding belief was – – – > “if the noodle sticks then it’s ready to be devoured” (see 1 Peter 5:8). But it turns out that أناهي ميريام جولدسكريبت walls […]

Hansen Quotes [the radio show guy, not the band #MMMbop #1997]

by Tyler Dirks

The following quotations are from Brant Hansen (author of “Unoffendable”, “The Truth About Us”, “The Men We Need”, “Blessed Are The Misfits,” etc.) “There’s a story of a law doyen asking Jesus what he needs to do to inherit eternal life? Jesus responds with a question, “What is written in the law?” The cognoscente quotes […]

Systems & Movements

by Tyler Dirks

There are amusement systems and adventure systems. White water rafting is an adventure system. Roller coasters are amusement systems. White water rafting calls for participation. Roller coasters call for passivity. White water rafting invite participants into risk, peril, failure, and joy. Roller coasters invite paying customers and season pass consumers to stand in line for […]

Squandering Popularity

by Tyler Dirks

What if people foisted elite social status upon you? What if YouTube offered you fame and fortune amongst Mr. Beast, Ryan Trahan, Dude Perfect, and Yuya? What if society said, “You have to really really really care about Prom! And you are obligated to go to Prom (even if you’d rather go camping, or play […]

What Commends Us To God’s Grace?

by Tyler Dirks

The following quotations are from Robert Farrar Capon… “Judgment falls not on the unacceptable but on those who will not accept acceptance.” “The whole purpose of the coming of the Word into the world is to produce people in whom the power of the kingdom will bear fruit. But since the kingdom is fully, albeit […]

RFC Quotes…

by Tyler Dirks

More quotations from Robert Farrar Capon… “Any authentically Christian system is going to have to keep off the kick of human merit and demerit and stick resolutely to a ubiquity of grace that overrides the subject of human works.” “Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten […]

Caring & Contemplating

by Tyler Dirks

The follow quotations are from Robert Farrar Capon… “We need good liturgies, and we need natural ones; we need a life neither patternless nor over patterned, if the city is to be built. And I think the root of it all is caring. Not that that will turn the trick all by itself, but that […]

Best Book I’ve Listened to in 2025

by Tyler Dirks

“Everything Sad Is Untrue” by Daniel Nayeri Read it! Or listen to it! Read/listen to it because… It talks about sojourners/refugees, and it will put pressure on you to make decisions that are aligned with the emphasis and Spirit of Leviticus 19:9-10! It talks about bullying in school. It talks about bidets. It talks about […]

A Quote from Farrar Capon’s Culinary Reflection

by Tyler Dirks

“Let us pause and drink to that. To a radically, perpetually unnecessary world; to the restoration of astonishment to the heart and mystery to the mind; to wine, because it is a gift we never expected; to mushroom and artichoke, for they are incredible legacies; to improbable acids and high alcohols, since we would hardly […]