From Robert Dann’s biography of Anthony Norris Groves: “Groves was careful to express no opinion on political matters: ‘I feel my path is to live in subjection to the powers that be… We have to show them by this that our kingdom is not of this world, that these are not things about which we contend.'” A...
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\nFinished reading: Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 📚 The introduction of Beatrice at the end is amazing and makes me eager to read the final book. Not a bad poet, this Dante guy!
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2026/06/12/andy-squyress-new-ep-praise.html","date_published":"2026-06-13T04:13:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-13 04:13","date_timestamp":1781324030,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91971563","content_html":"I was brought face-to-face with the challenge of the great reading just after I posted as I decided I would take a look at the books I have listed in my reading list on talqix.cloud and realized that I didn’t feel like reading either of them right now. I suspect that feeling is not going to be one that I can...
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","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2026/06/11/life-continues-otherwise.html","date_published":"2026-06-11T13:31:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-11 13:31","date_timestamp":1781184718,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91970069","content_html":"The great reading: social.livecontent.ca
","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2026/06/11/the-great-reading.html","date_published":"2026-06-11T13:18:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-11 13:18","date_timestamp":1781183898,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88683052","content_html":"I thought I’d lost it during a Wordpress migration gone awry, but after a few too many hours tinkering, my writing webpage is back & converted to a static site instead (thanks to the WP Fast Cache plugin). Will work at getting the code less bloated over the next while: jeffiswriting.ca
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\nFinished reading: Attensity! by The Friends of Attention 📚 Powerful words and inspiring! The last chapter in particular was a home run. It is making me think about “attention” in completely new ways.
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\nFinished reading: Affirming by Sally Gary 📚 I’ve read and really enjoyed a couple books by Sally’s wife, Karen Keen. Loved reading Sally’s story – beautifully written and very thought-provoking.
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\nFinished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2026/02/15/finished-reading-small-things-like.html","date_published":"2026-02-16T05:50:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-16 05:50","date_timestamp":1771221031,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84322100","content_html":"Happy to have submitted my paper about the Brethren in Canada – I’ve loved diving deep into the history of this movement, but I am glad to have a bit of a break now (as is my family)!
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2026/02/11/finished-listening-to-a-couple.html","date_published":"2026-02-11T15:23:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-11 15:23","date_timestamp":1770823387,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83678970","content_html":"Working on an extremely niche history paper, but grateful for the handful of people who are as interested in the topic as I am!
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Watched: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers🍿 in theatres last night – truly a masterpiece. I would love it if they showed it in theatres every year.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2026/01/29/this-looks-extremely-good-ht.html","date_published":"2026-01-29T22:54:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-29 22:54","date_timestamp":1769727282,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83164448","content_html":"Made a bunch of recent updates to my blog, including a follow-up to an earlier post about reading the Bible.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2025/10/18/recently-i-unexpectedly-encountered-some.html","date_published":"2025-10-19T01:19:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-19 01:19","date_timestamp":1760836780,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"75463615","content_html":"Is there a better phrase to describe what is happening in the church today than the one Jesus warns us to watch out for: “the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod”? Lord, preserve us.
\n#bible
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2025/10/10/is-there-a-better-phrase.html","date_published":"2025-10-10T13:36:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-10 13:36","date_timestamp":1760103368,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"75424626","content_html":"Loving this podcast about Jesus and the Jewish Law, but stressed that it only has seven episodes. I’ll try to really stretch out the last 4 as long as I can.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2025/10/08/posted-the-first-of-two.html","date_published":"2025-10-09T02:48:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-09 02:48","date_timestamp":1759978089,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"75341952","content_html":"Finished reading (actually a few months ago): Lamb of the Free by Andrew Rillera 📚\n\nI was reminded of it, though, while listening to this great interview with Rillera on the It Means What It Means podcast. The book is a great example of slowing down and reading texts deliberately rather than just tossing e... social.livecontent.ca","summary":"","url":"https://social.livecontent.ca/2025/10/08/finished-reading-actually-a-few.html","date_published":"2025-10-09T00:14:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeffrey King","url":"http://livecontent.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F04%2F66084.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"livecontent"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-09 00:14","date_timestamp":1759968891,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"75301576","content_html":"You know it’s going to be a special day when someone at work has put Cinnamon Dolce Latte Starbucks creamer in the shared fridge…
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