September 19, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Sep 19 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• Jacques Ellul and Joseph Spencer on how to evaluate the Book of Mormon

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Dad tip: Always build in a buffer between the walk home from school and your next meeting so that there’s plenty of time in case you need to clean up a scraped elbow and serve medicinal ice cream.

• It is September 13th. I am already buying myself a tea advent calendar and hating myself for it. I am thinking about how much more offensive capitalist Christmas should be to Christians than secular Christmas.

• Can we agree that swearing at one’s email inbox counts as work so that I can say I’ve been especially productive today?

• Today’s been a lot, but I’ve once again successfully channelled “watching Scott Pilgrim clips on YouTube” into “just check out the comics and read those, already.”

• Apple refuses to easily sync music libraries between computers because they want me to pay for Apple Music. What it actually does is push me to spend more time listening to internet radio.

• A clone of Deanna Troi named Deanna Quatr.

• J’aurai une réunion difficile aujourd’hui, et j’écoute donc Les Cowboys Fringants pour me remonter le moral.

• Un donut, ça remonte aussi le moral (même quand je fais des efforts de consommer moins de sucre).

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Pourquoi la Suisse peut-elle être considérée comme le berceau du minigolf

• 🔗 linkblog: Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

• 🔗 linkblog: 'Just going to blow them up?': Sen. Paul had hoped the Trump administration was backing off on boat strikes

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed recently:

• 📚 bookblog: 1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Imaginary Jesus (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: 2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Le dit des cigales (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Spook Street (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Persepolis (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer