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Misery and the Absence of Company
A few days before Halloween, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat posted an op-ed that hit at something I’ve been thinking about for a while, particularly as it relates to Christian faith & practice and the seeming inability of Christians … Continue reading
Our Shared Life and the King
Part of me thinks the stakes are quite high for James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King. That’s partly because of the cultural and political climate in which we find ourselves. Attached to that is the seeming “attack approach” that … Continue reading
About Thinking
This morning I started my my quick second-reading of Alan Jacobs’s recent release, How to Think. Over the last two years, Jacobs’ voice has become one that I both enjoy and heed. While he doesn’t blog as much as I … Continue reading
Riding on the Trolley . . . Problem
The most recent episode of NBC’s The Good Place did a great job of revisiting some of the ethical themes of the show’s first season . . . from a completely different perspective. This time around, Chidi was trying to … Continue reading
Speedy Recovery
This week’s episode of The Flash really was a nice return-to-form for the series: the humor level was high even as it had an edge of darkness about it. It will be interesting to see if they can keep that … Continue reading
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Face-to-Face Faith and Practice
As an extension of his talk of “the Benedict Option,” author Rod Dreher recently posed the following questions to the clergy who read his blog and who agree with some version of the dire situation in which today’s church finds … Continue reading
Experience and Bridges
Last week I spent much of the flight from Amsterdam to Los Angeles reading about expeditions to the South Pole. I hadn’t anticipated that, but I’m glad it happened. And it happened because I was able to buy a copy … Continue reading
Actively Waiting (cultural liturgies again)
We’re less than a month away from the release of the third and final volume of James K. A. Smith’s “Cultural Liturgies” series. That series, which started back in 2009, was formative in how I started thinking about worldview and … Continue reading
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Many Speed Force Returns
This week saw the return of super-heroes to the CW. And while ratings were down for three of the four DC Comics shows (Legends was steady with last year), The Flash shows some real potential to move forward this season. … Continue reading
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Edinburgh by Castle
Best pic from our last day in Scotland? Maybe so.
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Space Enough, and Time 