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How to Think in 2020
Each fall I get to read through How to Think by Alan Jacobs with a group of high school juniors. It is an attempt to help students think about thinking, to consider why they have landed where they have landed … Continue reading
A Song of Self-Awareness
One of the things I enjoy most about the music of Andy Gullahorn is that he is able to move between profundity and parody with ease. A few weeks ago I posted a recording of “Light a Candle,” which definitely … Continue reading
The Ground and the Figure in Our Current Moment
There are a few technology writers that I both genuinely listen to and enjoy. Nicholas Carr, writer of The Shallows, is one of them. He recently did an interview concerning the place of analog in a post-pandemic world. The site … Continue reading
Ethics in Our Everyday
Many of us are armchair warriors when it comes to talking about Our Current Moment. We speculate much, opinionate often, and are likely to find ourselves recanting a comment when a new article is published or a new announcement is … Continue reading
Ending 43
Well, 43 comes to an end for me tonight. Tomorrow I wake up 44. Here’s a favorite song to end the year:
Easter and the End
Today we had our Easter chapel at school (having it right before Easter is often suggested, but that gets in the way of Holy Week gatherings). I wrote and recorded it in the middle of last week, which feels like … Continue reading
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Reading Resurrection Letters
A wonderful way to spend part of Easter Sunday . . .
Deeper Than What We Make of It
Tish Harrison Warren’s most recent piece on Easter for Christianity Today dropped after I had recorded my Easter “message” for school, but I was glad to see it when it came time to put together the reflective follow-up piece. In … Continue reading
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Away from Trivial Grief
The particularities of life during a worldwide pandemic have brought some fresh urgency to how many are articulating their faith during this season of Lent and Easter. Yesterday I recorded my Easter message for school chapel; there’s really no way … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 