An impressive win against Leipzig (without their star striker or #1 and #2 goalkeepers) now means that Gladbach are just two points off the top four.

Which is incredibly impressive for Seoane’s team, considering they were 14th with just six points after their first six games.

Is it me or is this platform going the way of twitter? So much hate-fuelled writing and dubious characters posing as sensible voices. Maybe it’s just the algorithm. Well, here’s a counterpoint to a, frankly, inflammatory and obscene podcast. ‘We don’t hear enough about the Boudiccan revolt.’ Seriously? You talk about a UK civil war and b…

A mix between a no.10 and a no.9, Stuttgart's Nick Woltemade is one of the most unorthodox and increasingly in-demand player in the Bundesliga.

One problem with the Natal Conference/pro-natalism movement and other things like this is that the more you try to "get someone to do something", the more they naturally resist it—perhaps even out of an instinct of mimetic rivalry. Especially when you're aggressive, political, and cringe about it. This is a massive and underdiscussed problem of evagelization of any kind, including Christianity.

A kind of step one in getting to know Christianity better is realizing that the Protestantism you were raised in (statistically, in the US) is less like ancient Christianity than like higher church Anglicanism, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy. Take this step, and there’s a honeymoon period in which the newly adopted identity—Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, whatever—becomes a point of pride and a cause of celebration. Everything now becomes filtered through the lens of the “true faith,” and on…