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I drove up to my mom's house today, because last week I noticed she had a huge bruise on her leg and asked her what had happened. She was up on a ladder trying to attach a chain to an eyebolt in a joist beneath the deck of her house, and fell off when she had vertigo.
My mom remembers WWII. I don't think she should be climbing ladders dragging chains.
So then a day later she emailed me that she hurt her back trying to loosen the lugnuts to change a flat tire on her car and ask for advice on how to do it so it took less force and was easier for her.
To which my answer was LET ME DO IT.

I drove up on the Interstate, dropped by a friend's house to swap Ingress stuff, then went over to Mom's, where I cut the chain to the right length, hung all four pieces, attached the rather decrepit porch swing to the chain, came up with a low strength design for adding a bench opposite the swing (which I'm sure she'll go ahead and build without me, despite it needing a bunch of heavy lumber drilled, sawed, and bolted in place) and swapped the tire on her car for the dinky spare.
She's unhappy because her pastor of 35 years retired, and the only replacement they've yet found who is willing to work for what they can pay is "a very Old Testament guy" who she finds completely demoralizing.
I want modern liberal christianity to continue to exist, as a counterbalance, even if it's not my balance beam.

Back home past my workplace, to make one of my Ingress opponents furious, and I also got some great video of the player pianos at the museum functioning, because this time I had the time to stand around for a few minutes and film. When they upload I might post one.

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Your mother is clearly her son's mother, if you see what I mean. :) I help she can bring herself to delegate more heavy stuff and overhead work to you, but I'd suspect that impatience plays a role.

Modern liberal Christianity will almost surely continue to exist, just not necessarily in any widespread institutionalized form. Which is certainly very New Testament.

For modern liberal Christianity to continue in an institutionalized form there have to be a sufficient number of modern liberal Christians, Christian-allied, or Christian-interested people to support the institutions. And I suspect that my experience in Idaho Springs was a bellwether: lots of people who are too spiritually advanced for Christianity*, and those interested in Christianity assuming Christianity is conservative.

* They told me Kindly, as adults speaking to a child.

I hardly play Ingress any more, except to periodically do stuff that will irritate one of my opponents.

Kind of like going to church dressed to the nines to annoy the neighbors you hate

My mom remembers WWII. I don't think she should be climbing ladders dragging chains.

No, she shouldn't!