Andrew Stout

My essay, "'He Confided to His Mother': Minnie Machen and the Shaping of J Gresham Machen’s Hope" is out today It reviews Richard Burnett's excellent book, Machen's Hope 📚💙 I discuss Machen as (probably) a closeted gay man and why Burnett doesn't mention it onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

The Rays should give me an at bat, what have they got to lose?

Is this gonna be an eephus World Series?

Order footlong sub sandwich Eat half for dinner Put second half in fridge and pretened like you're saving it for lunch tomorrow Pull second half out of fridge at 10 PM and eat it over the kitchen sink

Sal Pacino as he's rounding first:

What's something your kids do that makes you feel like a failure as a parent? My kids flip on the TV when they sit down to do homework

The history of American Presbyterianism is just the Old School-New School controversy on repeat every few decades

I guess he felt that Mississippi was the safest place to go full blackface (that's more than a little bronzer)

it feels truly insane that it’s not

"Sexus" is what Vance calls it when he's driving to Texus to try out a new couch

What's something your kids do that makes you feel like a failure as a parent? My kids flip on the TV when they sit down to do homework

The amount of reading I have to do to feel comfortable writing a single paragraph is untenable

Presbyterians are definitely the pissiest of all denominations

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Biggest question I have after seeing You Can See Everything: Are Nathan Fielder and Mike Birbiglia different people?

Look, Nathan Fielder and Amanda Seyfried are a couple now That's just how it works

I watched You Can See Everything last night, and I've been reading about the Old School-New School Presbyterian controversy I find Elizabeth Holmes' scam and 19th century Presbyterian bickering equally depressing

I'll never really write, cos there's always more to read

Our parents voted for this and still expect our respect

Has Vogelbach even made a plate appearance in the playoffs? I assume they're keeping him around to crush beers and hype up the dugout

I've gotta put out an album, cos I've got the perfect cover

This is exactly what my mom sounded like one month before she died from alzheimer's

Our parents voted for this, and now they're complaining that we cut them off

would

I reviewed Judith Wolfe's "The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith" for the Journal of Reformed Theology. It's an essential book on the topic If you're interested in a PDF, hit me with your email in a DM brill.com/view/journal...

Ignore the small market disparagement (I love this World Series matchup) This is a great thread on preservation and access to dissertations in academic libraries 📚

I have to work tomorrow morning and it's making me question God's goodness

When you've written an A+ paper, but your teacher takes off a point because your margins were of by 0.1

Pipe Smoltz's commentary directly into the pitchcom and watch every pitcher wander off the mound in confusion

Sports commentary, the sole outlet for straight cis men to lovingly comment on other men's bodies

Fox feeding us fucking AI slop Happy World Series

I fuckin hate John Smoltz

They say they fixed the uniforms. So why do I still see every player's shirttails through their pants?

I reviewed Judith Wolfe's "The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith" for the Journal of Reformed Theology. It's an essential book on the topic If you're interested in a PDF, hit me with your email in a DM brill.com/view/journal...

Much to consider

“The poverty rate has just reached its best level in American history. There’s less poverty, and the poverty is at the highest level, so those three things. Those three things.”

I Ran an AI Audit on My Marriage and Now We're in a Thrupple with Claude