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Season’s Readings: 2018 Edition
One thing I’m trying to do a little more of as I get older is to establish some set “reading patterns” for different parts of the year. Holidays are often geared that way, of course. Then you work in classics … Continue reading
Advent Waiting, Christmas Celebrating
And just like that the Advent season comes to an end. It was a good and challenging Advent season for me. We spent the weeks between Thanksgiving and exams thinking about Advent in chapel. My guide through much of that … Continue reading
The Thread of Imagination
In yesterday’s post I mentioned some words and phrases that I’d been mulling over a little bit but hoped to mull over more this holiday weekend. I think I’d like to start with the thread of imagination. Somewhere along the … Continue reading
Unbusy: Non-Stop to Nothing
These last few weeks have been a reminder of the frustration that comes with being busier than you ever intended to be. In the midst of it all came news of the death of Eugene Peterson, who has probably shaped … Continue reading
Song for Another Leg of the Journey
A wonderful presentation of a classic song for the long road.
Beyond Hot, Stinky Cat Dooky
There were two scenes in last week’s episode of The Good Place that were both hilarious and pertinent to some of the things that I cover in my upper level classes. The first was “Jeremy Bearimy,” which NBC released as … Continue reading
Closer to the Passage
The folks at FOX just released a new trailer for the January-dropping, small-screen rendition of Justin Cronin’s The Passage. The big question in my head, as a fan of the trilogy, is how in the world they can translate the … Continue reading
Company Under the Unpredictable Plant
I don’t remember how I found the works of Eugene Peterson, but I’m glad I did. Peterson joined Tozer, Bonhoeffer, and Buechner in what I would call the first reading trajectory that took me beyond what was popular at the … Continue reading
“In Pleasant Places”
This week the Daily Office has had readings from the Book of Sirach, which is a little beyond the usual for me. So I’ve been doing the reading from the book of Psalms instead. Reading Psalm 16, which I hadn’t … Continue reading
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Jeremy Bearimy, Indeed
The Good Place on NBC went to a great place with this week’s episode. So great that I would show the entire episode in one of my classes next quarter if it didn’t give away almost every twist of the … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 