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Summer Break and Beyond
Difficult to believe that it’s back to school in just over two weeks for me. In cinematic terms, that means we’re about 2/3 of the way through summer movie season (at least how I reckon it). In a bit of … Continue reading
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The Root and Fruit of Affection
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Wendell Berry’s “rescue” of imagination as preparation for understanding the importance of affection (which I will take as at least a form of what others might call love). Both terms are used by Berry … Continue reading
100 Years and the Land of Mordor
The New York Times recently posted a short piece about the life of JRR Tolkien and its connection to The Lord of the Rings. The author, Joseph Loconte, recently published a biography connecting Tolkien and Lewis. The article begins: In … Continue reading
Affection is Rooted in Imagination
What’s been interesting to me over the last few years of thinking through things like James K. Smith’s cultural liturgies concept (teased out well in You Are What You Love) is how the idea of what you love and how … Continue reading
Independence, Resurgence, and Collapse
Last weekend, and against the better judgment of Rotten Tomatoes, I caught a showing of Independence Day: Resurgence. The movie is decent. The effects were amazing (and made me wish I had chosen the 3D route). The script was okay. … Continue reading
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So Plays the Fool
Travel day today, so a simple post with a deceptively simple song by Andrew Peterson. Funny that it’s Andy Gullahorn (who plays on the song) that shows up in the still image for the video.
Asking the LEGO Question
It’s a good question, one that actually comes to mind every now and then. Community season three: the question was asked, but was it every answered?
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Valleys Fill First
This past week I came into possession of the Caedmon’s Call Guild Volume 4. Unlike its three predecessors, the fourth volume of the batch was all video footage. And while it lacks some of the full-song punch of the other … Continue reading
Think Ahead: Beyond Specialization
One of the things that I like most about Stanley Hauerwas’s letter to Christians starting college is that he takes a few paragraphs to think ahead to the time when a student moves from core curriculum to major and minor … Continue reading
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Think Ahead: Books, Books, Books (or Just Keep Swimming)
In his letter to college freshmen who are Christians, Stanley Hauerwas introduces the idea of students being theologians, which he contextually defines as thinking about what you are learning in light of Christ. This does not happen by making everything … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 