Wired For Reproduction

Should science break apart reproduction and motherhood? Ask Aldous Huxley.

Come To The Dark Side (We Have Cookies)

Politicians are turning fantasy fiction into reality.

Noise

🎵 Mint Julep - Covers

An exceptionally well-curated group of cover songs brought together in a cohesive EP.

Faith

Why, As A Christian, I Can Sympathize With Some Prayer Shaming

In the wake of any gun-related tragedy in the US, political actors offer insincere thoughts and prayers in order to avoid taking real action.

Faith

Orthodox Christianity, The Far Right and the Green-Eyed Christ

A new book traces a trickle of far-right Christians moving to the Orthodox Russian church seemingly to chase authoritarianism but is there more to the story?

News

Under Construction

This is Frosted Echoes, a site by Robert Rackley that's just being moved from another blog host. Content will be filled in here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when posts are published!

Friday Night Video

🎵 Full Moon Baby

Hollie Cook stays locked in a reggae groove while giving a masterclass in crossing over.

Tech

Less Is More

The online discourse has made it difficult to keep up a digest style newsletter. It's time to shift course.

Faith

Smashing Political Binaries

Elizabeth Bruenig is a journalist who doesn’t conform to expectations. Some people have a problem with that.

Friday Night Video

🎵 Come On Let's Go

Captured Tracks recording artist Scout Gillett covers the standout Broadcast track "Come On Let's Go" on her newest covers EP, One To Ten. I liked the original version of this song, despite the fact that I am always feeling like I'm going to get Broadcast mixed up with Stereolab (it's

Tech

Cashing In My Chips

My first thought when read (at the end of a long day of work) that Elon Musk had purchased Twitter, was some measure of disbelief. I'm almost embarrassed to admit the second thought that popped into my head after reading the news. Yep, it is definitely with some shame that

Noise

Dance Music For Introverts

Sometimes Apple Music inspires me by algorithmically playing fitting sequential songs after a self-made playlist. This happened recently when I had been listening to some tracks I had stuck together and it followed them up with a Chromeo and then a Cut Copy song. I never would have thought to

Faith

Eastertide

I look at Easter not just as a day, but as a kickoff, if you will, for Eastertide. I see it as somewhat analogous to New Year's Day. Resolutions start then, and don't end when the day is over. Eastertide is a time to look at renewal in your life.

Tech

The Slide from Epistemic Bubble to Echo Chamber

We are trees rooted alongside each other, and tearing up the roots of one tree threatens to encroach on the rootedness of another.

Faith

Populations In The Lurch

The common bonds that held us together are dissolving and this is having a huge effect on population growth and mental health.

Tech

Buzzing Towards Babylon

Blogging platforms are changing, many for the worse, but there plenty of good options out there.

Tech

Writing For An Online Audience

A writer is a writer, no matter what platform they choose.

Hyper-capitalism vs. The World

Rebecca Riddell has an opinion piece [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/10/usaid-private-health-systems-kenya/] for the Washington Post (🔗 Via Lisa Sieverts [https://micro.blog/agilelisa]) on the US trying to export privatized healthcare to nations that in some cases, at least, have pretty robust public healthcare systems in place.

Noise

Work For Love

People associate Ministry with their signature industrial/metal sound, but they have a dark past in the world of 80s new wave synth pop.

Noise

Horror Head

Frank Yang, of the late Chromewaves.net, has a new blog called Space Echo [https://spaceecho.chromewaves.net/], where he does what he couldn't really do on his previous music blog: feature older music. With Chromewaves, he was writing about new music coming out. He hustled to stay on top

Tech

The Twitter Corps

It’s easy to become a jerk on Twitter.

Stories

The Upside Down

When I was growing up, everything seemed so black and white. Now so many things seem like shades of gray.

Keeping It In The Box

Learning how to savor things and experiences.

Faith

Imprecatory Prayer

I had never come across the phrase "imprecatory prayer" until recently, even if I knew well what it meant. In fact, I have struggled with the concept. The Got Questions site begins to answer the question of what imprecatory prayer is by defining imprecatory [https://www.gotquestions.org/imprecatory-prayer.html]

Faith

Beating Monsters With The Cross

A trip back to church and a new book convinced me to spend more time teaching my son about Christ.