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Short Season of Sequels
I finished Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary a few days ago. It’s the kind of novel that almost demands a sequel (or at least a second novel that dovetails with missing but intriguing plot points). Sequels are always a little … Continue reading
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What We Might Have Given
Yesterday I wrote a bit about the “work” that I had set up for myself this summer using some thoughts from an Ephraim Radner article from March 2020. At almost the same time, the folks at First Things also posted … Continue reading
The Work of (This) Summer
After a good trip back home to Tennessee to see family and friends, I’m back in Honolulu adjusting to mostly-free days and evenings. For many years, summer vacation was difficult for me (and summer school almost a necessity) because of … Continue reading
Continuing Cultivation
From James K. A. Smith’s recent newsletter over at Image: In May and June, my hands are dirty and I spend a lot of time thinking about sanctification. After the danger of Michigan frost is past, usually after Mother’s Day, … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Spacial Intelligence
Turns out there’s intelligence on both sides of the console, Caulfield and Frazz . . . Today’s outer-space Frazz reminds me of my current fiction read: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I was lucky to read Weir’s first book, … Continue reading
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Questionable Collaboration
Like it or not, collaboration has become a mainstay in most workplaces and ministries. In many ways, this is a good thing. But then something like this happens: Points to Snoopy, who reminds us about the connection between the medium … Continue reading
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What We Hear before We See
I’m about halfway through Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. I’ve spent most of my life with a vague sense of the story. The title has been popping up here and there these last few years, including a recent … Continue reading
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Start of Summer Words
Thanks to extra concurrent-learning prep during fall break 2020, the summer vacation has started earlier for me and my co-workers. Our last official day of work was this past Friday, and that was mostly meetings and planning for said meetings. … Continue reading
Learning from a Vocational Tale
I recently got around to reading James K. A. Smith’s essay on how his sense of vocation has been changing over these last couple of years. He wrote it for Christian Century for their “How my mind has changed” topic. … Continue reading
A Quieter Place
If there’s anything that The Lord of the Rings has taught us, it’s that “Point A to Point B” stories are rarely as easy as they should be. What’s true in LOTR on the grand scale is ultimately true in … Continue reading
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