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I spoke in Southern’s chapel this month on Psalm 126. Several students and faculty thanked me for my message, so I thought I’d share it here. If you’d like to watch the message instead of read it, you can always do that. Let’s examine Psalm 126 using three questions. The first question is “When?” That provides some context. The second question asks, “What does the Psalm mean?” That provides some interpretation.

The Gospel writers included Jesus’ quotation of Psalm 22 in their accounts because they wanted to evoke not just the first line, but the whole Psalm. This is a technique known as metalepsisand, according to Richard Hays, it unlocks many hidden meanings in the ways the New Testament quotes and alludes to the Old Testament. Yes, Jesus faced the wrath of God on the cross because he was “pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities,” but that isn’t why he quoted Psalm 22 from the cross.

It’s inevitable: Whenever a powerful, popular white man is outed as a bigot, his male fans swarm to protect him.  Whether it’s a homophobic slur, racism, or sexual harassment—when someone they admire is accused of wrongdoing, mostly young white male fans follow a familiar script: They descend en masse like social media locusts, furiously replying to reporters on Twitter, sharing videos on TikTok, or venting on Reddit.  These men are often abusive and sometimes threatening.

Pubstomp (v.) - the act of coordinating to execute a well-defined strategy against a randomly-assembled team of players on a public server. Well, we’ve been doing something very similar; except in this case, we’re not playing video games: To quickly recap; by using data from all 11 S&P 500 sectors, we trained an ARIMAX model with the goal of predicting the overnight direction of the S&P 500. We theorized that due to the leverage and multiplicative nature of options, the model would only need to be right >50% of the time to generate a long-term profit.

A few weeks ago, I found myself in Times Square. Happens more than you might think. It was a Friday night and I was feeling out of my mind. I needed some chicken fingers.  Raising Cane’s is a chicken chain that was founded in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cane’s business plan started as a college project that got a C-Minus. Now, its annual revenue is in the billions. Now, fans of the restaurant are referred to as “Caniacs.

From time to time I am going to unlock older posts that were originally just for paying subscribers. When I do, I’ll create a free clone of them with comments disabled, so as to protect the privacy of paying subscribers who commented on the original. This is one such clone — it was created 1/31/2021. If you’re a paying subscriber and want to see or comment on the original, it lives here.

Last Thursday’s subscriber newsletter was about How To Quit Your Job and Write Full Time and if you want to read it, you can subscribe right here! Yes, it is a little ironic that this post is behind a paywall. I, too, want to get paid for my writing. I preach what I practice, a wise person told me another wise person told him. Hi Friends, I am coming off the busiest period of my entire career.

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