#yelpification

Finding freedom through loveProper 21B  |  Mark 9:38-50 drewdowns · Let Us All Be Free (Proper 21B) The last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about hubris and failure. I don’t think I actually used the word hubris either time, but I should’ve. It’s a good word. And it perfectly encapsulates the disciples’ problem. The thing about hubris is that when we are full of it, we can’t see it. So we…

Photo by Eaters Collective on Unsplash Critique is the evaluation of things—primarily from a position of expertise and relative authority. We aren’t suffering for a lack of critique in our world. The yelpification of everything (an idea I first heard from the novelist and vlogger, John Green)—in which all things must be reviewed and catalogued—is so pervasive, we can’t resist determining the…