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Good Night, Who
And just like that, the 50th Anniversary of the Doctor begins . . .
An Even Newer Trailer for The Desolation of Smaug
I was excited to see a new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug this past weekend. Which makes me a little surprised to see yet another trailer debut today. Then I remembered that tomorrow is the release of … Continue reading
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A Hint of New U2 Music
I didn’t quite know what to think yesterday when the guy on the radio announced that U2’s long-awaited follow-up to No Line on the Horizon would drop the day after Thanksgiving. How had I missed this news? A quick internet … Continue reading
James K. A. Smith on When “It’s Not Worship”
James K. A. Smith, author of Desiring the Kingdom, recently released a collection of shorter writings. Discipleship in the Present Tense includes a number of quality pieces, many of them being good introductions to Smith’s view on culture and its … Continue reading
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Twenty Years of a Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
The folks at Christianity Today just posted an interview with Reed Arvin, the producer of much of the late Rich Mullins’ music. Turns out that it’s been twenty years since the release of A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin … Continue reading
Have TARDIS, Will Travel
It’s a strange thing, traveling through the land that has informed so much of your imagination. The castles and keeps, the unending hills, the barrows (the barrows!), the city streets that wend and wind and turn in on themselves: it … Continue reading
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Mind the Gap
It’s a strange thing, going “there and back again.” Travel can be a kind of parenthetical experience, one that should bring many new experiences but ought not (some might say) create any real change. A kind of existential gap can … Continue reading
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The Space Between
Been in England a few days now. We started in Manchester, travelled the Lake District, visited Haworth, and settled in for a bit in Leeds. And while the locations have been amazing (Haworth is as close as I’ll get to … Continue reading
Being Mosby: One Ticket to Farhampton
You can tell a lot about a show by how well it revisits its initial premise. It’s more than just flashbacks: it’s recall in order to remind us of how far characters have come. How I Met Your Mother has … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 