Ron Hogan
@ronhogan
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
I wish I could find a better picture than this, but Maria Becerra’s Argentinian flag outfit, complete with giant golden sun accessory, is easily the best aspect of the entire pre-game ceremony.
“What has the gospel to do with the oppressed of the land and their struggle for liberation?” the Black theologian James H. Cone asked. Well, everything. My Quaker message this week is about why we work diligently toward the redemption of all creation. (See Romans 8:23.) quaker.org/2026/07/13/w...
Let’s meet the hipster couple that runs around New York saying things like “Welcome to West Village.”
Got the latest Metrograph newsletter and I love that this promo pic from Possession makes Sam Neill look so young and wholesome and doesn’t even begin to prepare the viewer for a portrait of a marriage descending into cosmic horror at the liminal edges of the Cold War.
So this is what I’ve been up to all week at the Friends General Conference (or, as I like to call it, Quaker Jamboree)… talking every morning with some folks about the prophetic imagination and shaping a ministry in which everyone can recognize themselves as a welcomed member of a blessed community.
DJ Khaled has a message for the Democratic leadership that decided even before Maine held its primary to go all in on Graham Platner.
Nothing says “Fourth of July” like a woman in a military uniform butchering the delivery of a song lyric about the twenty-first day of September. Also, are there ANY people of color in this band at all?
The CSPAN cameraman covering the abandoned semiquincentennial celebration is bored, bored, bored.
Who could have guessed that Nick Cave’s cover of “The Carnival Is Over” would turn out to be the perfect soundtrack for America’s Semiquincentennial?
Remember when Jesse Watters suggested a few weeks back that Mister Rogers might have been a “creep” in real life? That’s just like the time Jesus compared his generation to a bunch of kids sitting around and singing silly songs in the marketplace. Let me break it down! quaker.org/2026/06/29/t...
For post-match commentary, let’s turn now to Jay Sherman in the studio. Jay, what’s your reaction?
Oh, David Bentley Hart, Don’t You Ever Change, Exhibit A (h/t to @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social for the image, to which I’ve added alt text)
I’m up at Papaye on the Grand Concourse, watching Ghana-Croatia with a big platter of waakye.
Step 5: Remember that one scene in It’s a Wonderful Life, where George’s brother retracts the dance floor and drops him and his date into the (reflecting) pool?
