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Think Ahead: Minds Needed, Minds Wanted
The church, particularly the evangelical Protestant kind, often has a strange relationship between faith and learning. It as if one must necessarily cancel out the other. And while I got more of a sense of that when heading off to … Continue reading
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Think Ahead: The College Calling
“The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by a solemn washing with water), uncompromisingly moral (‘be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect,’ said Jesus), and unapologetically intellectual (be … Continue reading
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LOST at 30 Rock
These days I’m enjoying a quick trip back through the fifth season of 30 Rock. The wordplay throughout the season is amazing (particularly with the episode titled “College”). It’s also interesting to see how often LOST was occasionally referenced in … Continue reading
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Two Things for the Toolbox
Yesterday I reflected some on a recent article by Alan Jacobs about “dropping clues in our technological society.” I linked to the article in the hopes that you would take note of the last thing that Jacobs suggests as a … Continue reading
Finding Dory: Into Darkness
Like many Americans, I spent a couple of hours in the theater this past weekend catching up with Dory, Marlin, and Nemo. And by catching up with, I mean swimming far into the murky existential depths of the children’s movie … Continue reading
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The Back-Drop for the Age
This past weekend I had the opportunity to sit around a breakfast table and talk about James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love. It was an interesting conversation for me, as I’ve been pretty invested in Smith’s thinking … Continue reading
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“For British Eyes Only”
I’ve got a number of friends traveling abroad this summer. Two in particular are enjoying a couple of weeks in England. Weird to think that I was just there a few months ago myself. A version of Britain (known as … Continue reading
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Trailer Talk: Batman v Superman Extended
I may be one of the few to admit it, but I regret only seeing Batman V Superman once in the theater. I feel that regret as soon as I hear the first musical notes in the trailer for the … Continue reading
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Klosterman Looks Back on Television
Chuck Klosterman’s new book, But What If We’re Wrong?, dropped this past week. The premise of the book is to cast thought forward a few hundred years and try and understand what we think we’re getting right now but might … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 