Twice a month I usually post a Friday thread for paid subscribers. Today I wanted to share a bit more about stuff I have been into. If you would like to join us, we would love to have you!
I know we usually do community threads twice a month but I honestly have more stuff I wanted to share/talk about beyond the regular Tuesday posts.
So today I am going to cram in an extra DL Recommends post. I might even do this every other month or so if people like it!
Autistic people get a lot of joy out of sharing what they are into. Even if it isn’t a full-blown special interest, when we LIKE something many of us have a burning desire to share that joy with someone (anyone!). The internet can be a great place for this, which is why this has always been one of the ways I used social media. I liked to talk about media I was enjoying, a lot. Back in the day I would write for all sorts of Christian magazines and websites about pop culture, and sometimes I miss that (not the tying everything back to Christianity part, but the writing about pop culture and thinking about it on some deeper levels).
Anyways, here are some things that caught my eye and my fancy over the past few weeks.
David Bentley Hart is TIRED
Ok, I have never read DBH before (I know, GASP) but Troy from I was a Teenage Fundamentalist (another recommendation of mine, we will get to that in a minute) sent me this podcast episode to listen to. I am not really in the place where I enjoy or seek out listening to anything Christian theology these days as I am allergic to the backbone of supremacy that seems to underlay so many of those conversations. But this one hit a little different, to the point that I listened to it TWICE, asked the podcast host to make a transcript of it, and forced Krispin to listen to it with me as well1.
The part I resonated with so much is the bone-deep weariness that David Bentley Hart has from decades of being in conversations with Christians who have wretched moral philosophies and theologies. There is something so refreshing about a very smart scholar at the tail end of trying to reason with people who really can’t be reasoned with on a logical level. I found it incredibly freeing, and as a side benefit it also gave both Krispin and I some expansiveness when it came to constantly evaluating our own relationships to Christianity as a religion. I basically resonated with everything DBH said, so does that mean I am an Orthodox Christian now??? (Ha ha, no it does not, but that is the thought loop I had for exactly 30 minutes last week).
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
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