The girls enjoying their new paint set, courtesy of aunt and uncle

Kids painting at the kitchen table.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, on what the “mind of Christ” actually is:

The “mind of Christ” refers not merely to Jesus' intellectual quotient or his stock of knowledge but to his habitus: the distinctive pattern of all his intentional acts—desires, hopes, beliefs, volitions, emotions, as well as thoughts. The mind of Christ refers, in a word, to the characteristics pattern of Jesus' judgments—to the way that Jesus processes information and to the product of that process: the embodied wisdom of God. The mind of Christ is the set of moral, intellectual, and spiritual habits or virtues that serve as the mainspring for all the particular things that Jesus does and says.

My Christmas gift to the bro-in-law:

Pictured here with books:

Christopher Lasch:

A denial of the past, superficially progressive and optimistic, proves on closer analysis to embody the despair of a society that cannot face the future.