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If I were to sum up the Chiefs victory over the Dolphins in a single play, it would have been an exchange away from the ball that TECHNICALLY didn’t even affect the play. But it said absolutely everything you needed to know about why the 2023-2024 Chiefs are not a team anyone wants to play… even leaving aside Patrick Mahomes being a metahuman in the playoffs. Late in the 2nd half, the Miami Dolphins faced 3rd and 13 trailing by six.

If you say the term “Spags gonna Spags” to virtually any Chiefs fan, they’ll know exactly what you mean by that. We’ve talked at length here about Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s tendencies to throw various coverages and blitzes at opposing quarterbacks (like when he put Tua and Miami in a torture chamber in last year’s playoffs). And Spagnuolo’s tendency to dial up pressure in the biggest moments is well known.

Not long ago, I interviewed reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal about their new book, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. I hoped a topical moment to share our interview, which traces how the gun came to be used in mass shootings, wouldn’t arrive for a long time. Alas, a gunman in Maine thought otherwise. I’ll note that, while the search for the gunman continues, it’s unclear exactly what kind of semi-automatic rifle he used.

Nine rounds had gone by in Monterrey, Mexico and Antonio DeMarco’s trainer had seen more than enough. Withdrawing his man from the bout, saving the challenger from further punishment, DeMarco’s name was added to a growing roster of victims felled by Edwin Valero. Making the second defence of his WBC 135-pound title, Valero inscribed victory number 27 to his burgeoning record. All 27 had failed to hear the final bell. The 28-year-old Venezuelan was no ordinary champion.

As the creator of the 30-Day Phone Breakup Course, founder ofScreen/Life Balance, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, I get a lot of questions about my thoughts on kids and smartphones. (And as the parent of a young child, these are questions I know that I’ll be having to deal with relatively soon myself!) So I decided to go full Catherine on it, and ended up essentially doing a research report on smartphone alternatives (yes, I also am the same person who wrote a book about fun—irony noted).

Season 2, Episode 5 — ‘Spirit’ John 5:14-15 Synopsis. As the Feast of Tabernacles comes to an end, Yanni and Shmuel finally confirm that Jesus was the one who healed Jesse—but their efforts to report him to the Sanhedrin are stymied by Nicodemus. Jesus sits for a chat with his cousin John the Baptist, who says he is planning to confront Herod Antipas again. Simon the Zealot, curious to learn more about the man who healed his brother, watches the disciples from a distance, but he comes to their defense when a demoniac approaches the camp.

Season 2, Episode 6 — ‘Unlawful’ Mark 2-3; Matthew 12; Luke 6 Synopsis. Matthew and Simon find Mary Magdalene outside the bar in Jericho and take her back to the disciples’ camp, where Jesus welcomes her and forgives her. Yanni and Shmuel can’t get a representative from the school of Hillel to take up their case against Jesus, so they decide to approach the school of Shammai. The disciples get news that John the Baptist has been imprisoned again, this time for good.

Warnings: Incredibly racist movie where they shoot God with a gun. Long read because I couldn’t get the recap any shorter. Heidi Montag. Father, forgive them, they knew not what they were doing.  Assassin 33 A.D. (2020) is a movie where a masked-up hit squad travels back in time, mows down Roman guards in the Garden of Gethsemane, and puts a .45 in Jesus’ head in the first act. We’re not even halfway into the nearly two-hour film, and they’ve put down the King of Kings like Old Yeller.

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers This began as an author newsletter; no particular purpose, just whatever’s on my mind. But over time, I’ve realised that I’m trying to create something very specific here, and it’s a place rather than a topic. I’m clearing a space in which we can gather, and see each other, and ruminate over the question of how to live. That’s a big question, isn’t it?