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Tychicus is mentioned five times in the New Testament.  Acts 20:4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea, Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, Gaius of Derbe, Timothy, and  Tychicus  and Trophimus of Asia. Ephesians 6:21 But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing,  Tychicus , the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things. Colossians 4:7 All my affairs will be made known to you by  Tychicus , the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. 2 Timothy 4:12 But I sent  Tychicus  to Ephesus. Titus 3:12 When I send Artemas to you, or  Tychicus , be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there. The Acts text tells how Tychicus became part of Paul's retinue. The Colossians and Ephesians verses state that Tychicus will give the recipie...

 https://www.thefp.com/p/judsons-last-ride It is a father's reflection on his son's autism as he finishes school. 

 I get the substack of a writer named Joel M. Miller. His short bio says,  Chief content officer at Full Focus. Former VP of editorial and acquisitions at Thomas Nelson. Author of several books, including The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future. This man knows books. I find his substack worth reading (not all are, and most are not worth paying for). In today's article, he interviews a veteran English teacher, Matt Ryan, of Massachusetts, who started a TikTok group/channel/hashtage (I don't know the lingo for it) called CanonChat. Here is a part of the interview.   As an educator, you’ve been critical of the move by the National Council of Teachers of English to “decenter” book reading (which seems utterly bonkers, if not cultural suicide). What’s the strongest version of the argument you’re opposing—and where does it go wrong? The strongest version of NCTE’s argument is a claim that is undeniably true: Students now live in a world that bombards th...

 You can probably find articles on the Internet about the "study" where subjects were shown two a "Monet" painting of waterlilies and asked if it was a real Monet or an AI-generated image. Most got it wrong; the "painting" really was one of Monet's work (although a photographed image, which makes a difference), but most said it was AI-generated.  Of this, Spencer Klavan says:   "the Monet 'hoax' only shows that people on the Internet have opinions without much bases. They don’t know a Monet enough to discern if it’s real or an AI copy. Edmund Burke, in his wonderfully Burke-y sort of way,  put it beautifully   when he wrote that what sets good critics apart is chiefly the keenness of vision they develop 'from a closer and longer attention to the object.' The sensibilities take time to train. . . . M y weirdly optimistic take is that all these artificial imitations aren’t so much displacing reality as reminding people what they  lo...

 I am trying to wean off political podcasts. They get incredibly repetitive, and of course depressing.  So the alternative is to listen to the classical music station out of Collegedale, Tennessee, run by the Adventists at Southern Adventist University. Yesterday at 7:15 as I travelled up I-75 to spend my morning watching my granddaughter, I was treated to John Williams' Star Wars themes (I think they play it in the credits) and The William Tell Overture.  What fun! What a way to get the energy to play with a toddler!

This is borrowed from The Rabbit Room newsletter. I truly recommend The Habit podcast.   I n an exchange that didn’t make it into the final episode, one of my recent podcast guests—Tish Harrison Warren? Alan Noble?—got on the subject of training montages in sports movies. Everybody knows that athletes have to train. We admire grit and hard work. Training can even be picturesque (especially Rocky training in Russia’s wintry countryside while Drago gets fine-tuned in a Soviet robotics lab). A training sequence is good for any story about overcoming hardship. But the long, grueling, possible boring aspects of physical training—the aspects of training that actually transform the mind and body of the athlete—don’t make for great cinema. The training montage telescopes all that slow grinding down to something that is visually pleasing, fast-paced, and enlivened by jaunty music. Thomas Aquinas talks about the bonum arduum , the difficult or steep good. The training montage gives u...