Mailbag: 1,000 True Fans, Earned Gifts, Magic, and Christmas!

| December 19, 2024 | 0 comments

For the final episode of this year, join Michael to discuss your questions for a Christmas mailbag episode. Michael answers questions about Kevin Kelly’s “1,000 True Fans Principle,” the difference between pride concerning earned skills and narcissism concerning gifts, how Christians should approach magic in fantasy books and/or movies, what fiction Michael has been reading and why he cares about fiction, and whether or not Christians should buy cheap, plastic Nativity scenes for their yard.

Stay tuned at the end for the album version of Civilized Creature’s “Humble and Lowly,” off his excellent record Earthen Vessel, released in 2023.

LINKS

The Technium: 1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly

Out of Control, by Kevin Kelly

Three Stages of Learning: How to Become a Master, by Michael Minkoff, Jr.

Harry Potter: Natural Law or Supernatural Sorcery?, by Michael Minkoff, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens – Silver & Gold, review by Justus Stout

Here at Last is Love, by Dunstan Thompson

3:10 — Mailbag Season 3 (Go to ~7:15 for discussion of “Piss Christ”)

“Bethlehem,” by Annie Dillard

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