Bill Walker

"Liberalism is the only meta-narrative that has convinced the world that it is not a meta-narrative." -- Alasdair MacIntyre

Coming out of “x” hibernation to say that, so far, @KSPrior’s new book, “You Have a Calling,” is very well done. Will likely be the new standard intro I mention + use when making recommendations to college students & other Christian Study Centers for a theology of vocation.

Saw this again on my feed today — some of the better news in our world:“Millennial dads are spending 3x as much time with their kids compared to their fathers. In 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they had never changed a diaper. Today, that number has dropped to about 3%.”

“The thread of greed that runs through budget culture encourages a habit of hoarding under the guise of good money management [while actually just reinforcing] a fear of scarcity…” — Dana Miranda, “You Don’t Need a Budget”

Calls from both parties for “non-violence” and from church leaders for “peace” after an assassination attempt are a little hard to hear given that a few hours earlier, Israel killed 141 more Palestinians in a humanitarian zone with another “precise” air strike using US missiles..

Another reason why James Cone was so important.

“Why are these people so certain that…protestors are motivated by an abiding hatred of Jewish people and not footage we’ve all been seeing… since last October? This, the most obvious possible question… is not something anyone in charge cares to ask.” open.substack.com/pub/tylerh…

It was great to have @james_ka_smith with us for this and for @HillHouseUT to partner with @UT_Civitas! A recording of our interview conversation can be found here: hillhouseaustin.org/lectures

Stories like this are just the worst. So sad, and what an amazing human.

“What characterizes the West is not disenchantment but rather the condition of having learned to describe itself as disenchanted. . . What has diminished in the West is explicit worship of the Jewish and Christian God; what has not diminished is worship.” - William Cavanaugh

Got to spend time with and hear from @JustinEGiboney this weekend of the @AndCampaign for the inaugural Austin Center for Faith & Work conference. Such a needed and prophetic voice for Christian public witness right now, calling us to courage, compassion, and self-examination.

Proud to see @abarafrontiers’ story and good work featured here, as well as Christ Church Austin mentioned as a partner org. Hoping and praying this article gets a wide and favorable reading.

Same for me. Such a towering, comprehensive thinker. He pioneered the concept of the transmodern which continues to help me make sense of things. I presented at a conference in DF where he was also supposed to speak but got ill. Very grateful for him and disappointed we never met

Really enjoyed this conversation!

Revisiting The Prophetic Imagination for a talk at @HillHouseUT. I know Brueggemann owed much to others in this work, but it continues to seem as timely as ever: “In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.”

Preparing for a series on “technology and spirituality” at @HillHouseUT and engaging this piece from last year by @compactmag and @JonAskonas. Such a good synopsis of how and why tradition has eroded, the role technology plays, and a call for rebuilding. compactmag.com/article/why-c…

This could be said of so many things, and of our immigration policy no less: “we have compounded the suffering of deeply desperate people, and Texans are no safer for it.” statesman.com/story/news/col…

There was a time when I would have thought this amount of money was completely unnecessary and excessive, but these days I’m much more sympathetic. The feeling of financial insecurity looms increasingly large over the wealthiest nation in human history… cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/09/sala…