Derek Hiebert

In a culture big on dialogue and low on dogma, your tone is everything. Tone is the new 'dogma'. In other words, speak grace and truth.

I post this every Easter, but I don’t care. It’s about the resurrection, and I think it’s insightful and I’m proud of it. Why Jesus had to rise on the third day. Hint: It’s not because of Jonah. bibleproject.com/articles/why-d…

beach run Tunnels Beach, Kauai

Came out to play.

I made Seahawks Blue Hawaiians with green cold foam for a Super Bowl victory #SuperBowlLX #GoHawks

@AlanMCole Recent example is the Toy Story franchise. The story was absolutely perfect and conclusive at the third sequel (and TS3 rivals TS1 in terms of narrative quality IMO). TS4 was meaningless. And now we hear they’re doing a 5th. It’s just a Disney money grab, content conveyor belt.

@AlanMCole Franchise ambition (capitalism) ruins a good story every time. Stories are not meant to be prolonged with multiple ‘seasons’, because it fundamentally opposes how stories work. Narratives will collapse under the weight and pressure of forced plot and character expansion.

The first season of Stranger Things was genuinely about as close to perfect as any show season has ever been. What followed is a cautionary tale about what happens when you demand people continue a perfectly wrapped up story.

@JoshDenny Great take. This is why S1-3 was so pure and genuine. Very little anachronism.

You want to make a REAL show that’s a love letter to the 80s? Don’t have the kids talk about sex AT ALL. They should ride bikes, find aliens, search hidden pirate ships for treasure, and try to find dead bodies. In 80’s movies, kids went on adventures. They didn’t sit around and contemplate their existence as sexual beings.

@AlanMCole We cannot fathom what East of Eden, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Les Miserables or Moby Dick would be like if they had multiple sequels. And those are long narratives in their own right.

Moby Dick

@AdamPage85 Yeah, they make it look like this magical climactic moment on which everything hinges. So forced and preachy. Part of why I loathe franchises that keep writing new seasons. The story is often trash and it ends up smelling like the money grab it actually is.

I have really enjoyed Stranger Things. Stellar cast, 80s pop culture, best soundtrack, sci-fi. Great. But Season 5, episode 7: The Bridge, is probably one of the worst written episodes of TV I’ve ever seen. Worlds colliding, humanity on the brink of non existence, incredible villain, plans coming together, and they pause for a very long melodramatic coming out story. A coming out story so bad even the LGBTQ community has publicly hated it all over X. 😂 And they should. It’s so incredibly bad. Goodness gracious. It was so bad it was laughable.

Me: I’m having some egg nog, you want any? Wife: No, I’m good. Me: Well, your loss.

@griffingulledge Agreed. It’s a mashup of parodies of classic Christmas themes, with a vague message of ‘belief’. In the end, it’s really just the age-old moral of good-people-get-rewarded-at-Christmas.

Can we all agree that The Polar Express is terrible and we should just collectively move on from it? Creepy animation. Bad story. Not enjoyable.

@gbellseattle My wife has been a pediatrics nurse for 25 years, 13 of them in Tacoma. I support this thesis.

NICU nurses are angels living and working on Earth.

Ray Lubeck was a mentor for me in biblical theological study, an expert teacher, and a lover of God and his word. He will be greatly missed, though his legacy and life’s work shines bright and far. Thank you, @carmenjoyimes for this beautiful memoriam. carmenjoyimes.substack.com/p/into-the-len…

@CarlDeyArmin Thank you, good sir. And merry Christmas to you and your family.

I’m not judging you, but if you aren’t grilling salmon while listening to the Ramsey Lewis Trio “Sound of Christmas” album on #ChristmasEve, you’re doing it wrong.

Merry Christmas Eve from the Oregon Coast where the rain and wind never stops.

Hallmark movie where big city professor returns to small town and falls in love with first person to show slight interest in research

@LloydLegalist Baked potato

If there was a scratch and sniff map of the United States, what would your state smell like?

@KellenCriswell And the brilliant, mysterious and impactful thing about this is Christ actually inhabits us with the ontological presence of his Spirit.

☦️ The Presence of Christ is eternally insulating In every space of physical isolation, He is there In every corner of our hearts and thoughts, nothing is veiled or distant to Him There is no realm of reality in which Hes not attuned to us In Him, we are truly never alone ☦️