The Sunday Edition — 10.05.25

Happy Sunday, dear friends! I’m a bit behind schedule, though for a good cause — those Toronto Blue Jays are exciting to watch right now, and it’s going to be fun to see where they end up by the end of the week. Maybe I just jinxed it! Either way, Canadian sports fans are on their toes.

A few less words this week, but a garbage truck full of new photography instead.

The iPhone Air — A Short Photo Story

I appreciated M.G. Siegler’s opening to his review of all the latest Apple gear this past week:

There is not much to say that hasn't already been said. Both because people who actually review iPhones these days have already undoubtedly taken every angle, but also because after 18 years of the iPhone, even on an individual level, there's just not much left to write. If you like the iPhone in 2007, and 2008, and 2009, and 2010... spoiler alert: you're gonna like the iPhone in 2025.

Bingo! And let’s be honest, I’m not going to blow off anyone’s socks with some new insight about the iPhone Air, either. It’s difficult to find the brain capacity to note every minute detail thus far.

This said, I continue to barge forward with my new ultra-thin iPhone. It continues to feel great in my hand when browsing, viewing, and typing, and I continue to love the overall form factor. But, to be transparent, I have had my first pangs of regret this week — I really want to try that beautiful new camera system in the iPhones 17 Pro and I especially would like to try that new TechWoven case. As it is, I still don’t think the pangs of regret have overcome the fun benefits of having such a thin iPhone. We’ll see if that changes over the year to come.

Below is a quick photo story, which I haven’t produced in a long, long time. This used to be the only unique or valuable thing I could provide to the technology world. My camera has become a family asset rather than a work asset. But, for this quick photo story, I had a pile of fun.

And a few of the iPhone Air with the MagSafe Battery. Straight up, I feel the MagSafe Battery may be one of the worst Apple products I’ve ever purchased. It looks great, yes! But:

It doesn’t charge wirelessly.
It only charges up to 65% of the iPhone Air’s battery, despite being effectively identical in size to the Air’s internal battery.
It loses its charge quickly when sitting in your bag.

Nevertheless, I will be keeping the battery in my bag for those rare occasions where I need a boost.

A Weekly Meditation: John 14:16

John 14:16:

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Jesus says the above to his disciples in the days between his arrival to Jerusalem and his crucifixion. (Side note: My wife and I just started watching season 5 of The Chosen, which appears to showcase this very time, if you want to gain a visual understanding of the times we’re talking about.) The above words are part of Jesus’s answer to his disciples when they ask where He is going in the coming days, and why Jesus won’t simply show the Father to them on the spot. Jesus’s answer is a reflection of the fulfillment of the New Covenant, first discussed in Jeremiah 31:33-34:

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Brainstorming the implications of John 14:16 puts a great deal of the world’s mysteries to rest. The world does not know the Helper (or the Spirit), and so the world cannot know Our Father. If you know Christ, you will know and listen to the Spirit, and you will know the Father. It is as though there is a veil over the eyes and ears of those who do not believe. And once confessed, that veil is ultimately lifted. Until that point of confession, Luke 23:34:

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

The idea of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us permeates across the later parts of the Old Testament and throughout the New Testament. It’s a fascinating thing to dive into, to pray about, and to better understand. And, ultimately, to listen to.

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