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The Week Looking Back
The big news of the week was this: I’ve known for a while that Aaronovitch had written a number of shorter pieces for the continuing saga of Peter Grant and friends. I’d even tracked a few of them down online. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Internet, Television
Tagged 30 Rock, Agents of SHIELD, Rivers of London, Stargirl
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Minding the Messengers
In the section of Antifragile about “skin in the game,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines prophets and their task: Prophecy is a pledge of belief, little else. A prophet is not someone who first had an idea; he is the one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Faith, Life in the Fifth Act, Notes for a World's End, Scripture, Teaching
Tagged Alan Jacobs, Rod Dreher
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Chaplains Needed?
One of the ways I’ve tried to stay focused-without-travel has been to audit a class from my university (and taught by one of my professors from ye olden days). The course has focused on approaches to pastoral ministry as found … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Faith, Notes for a World's End
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On Humility
Yesterday I mentioned some interesting connections between stuff and people that I had been reading, how even if one thing didn’t explicitly lead to another, I still kind of ended up at a particular destination with so much in tow. … Continue reading
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Something Beyond Bad Traditionalism?
It’s always amazing to me how one thing you read can inadvertently lead to another. I spent a good bit of my spring slowly reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s Antifragile. I read it because it had a praise-worthy mention in an … Continue reading
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How We See, How We Write
I can’t remember how, but George Packer’s “The Enemies of Writing” piece from The Atlantic (January 2020) came across my path last week. The essay is a re-write of an acceptance speech given upon Packer’s winning of the Hitchens Prize. … Continue reading
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Thinking Abroad
Over the last few days I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the Lake District in England, mostly because I’ve found accounts on Twitter that regularly post pictures of hikes and walks that they’ve been taking. It’s compounded, of course, … Continue reading
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Don’t You Forget about SHIELD
I mentioned earlier in the week that the most recent episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD found Mack and Deke trapped in the 1980s. As with every episode of this season’s time-hopping shenanigans, the show makes good use of the … Continue reading
Remembering Places and Times
I have to say, as nice as it has been to find a cafe or restaurant to sit and read some, it’s been the return of background music. Over the last few months, I haven’t listened to music much accept … Continue reading
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Building Brainpower
This premiere season of Stargirl has had an interesting pace storytelling-wise. Most of the main characters have been at play from the beginning, though some in bits and pieces. Some things haven’t happened yet (Courtney’s mom works for who?!) while … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 