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Ancient Revolution in the Tense Present
N. T. Wright’s most recent book dropped this week. The Day the Revolution Began focuses on the death of Jesus. One of the questions Wright tackles early in the book is the question of the revolution’s content. From the book’s first … Continue reading
Run, Jesse, Run
Last night’s episode of The Flash took an interesting turn . . . or at least made an interesting “stop” along the way of season three. After a conversation with Jay Garrick about tampering with the timeline, Barry Allen decided … Continue reading
Lewis on Literature
Fall break has broken. It came to an end last night with church, some orange chicken with steamed rice, laundry, and the final pages of C. S. Lewis’s The Discarded Image. The book, Lewis’s attempt at writing a “primer” for … Continue reading
Pilgrim Days: A Hospitable World
Before he gets into a discussion of the ways contemporary culture has re-defined the identity of the pilgrim, Bauman casts one last picture of the kind of world necessary for a “classical” pilgrimage to take place. “Both life and and … Continue reading
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Pilgrim Days: The Desert and the Real
In “From Pilgrim to Tourist,” Zygmut Bauman traces a line from the Christian concept of the pilgrim to the contemporary scheme of self-definition. That line gets traced (metaphorically and historically) right through the desert. ‘We are pilgrims through time’ was, … Continue reading
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Pilgrim Days: Streets and Houses
In his consideration of identity culture and postmodern thinking, Zygmunt Bauman looks back to a particular moment in history for an image and a way of thinking about the world. When Rome lay in ruins– humbled, humiliated and sacked and … Continue reading
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Pilgrim Days: Changes in Identification
A few weeks ago, Rod Dreher spent a post reflecting on “From Pilgrim to Tourist- or a Short History of Identity” by Zygmunt Bauman as part of his continuing articulation of “the Benedict Option.” A made a copy of the … Continue reading
Stranger Things Have Happened
About a month ago I finally got around to seeing Stranger Things on Netflix (thanks to friends and neighbors). It’s pretty much everything every good review said: wonderfully nostalgic, well-paced, a real sense of the unexpected, Winona Ryder unrecognizable at … Continue reading
Beyond Common Things
A few months ago I spent some time working through Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things. I first heard of the book when it was name-dropped on The Newsroom. When I read it, I found a genuine struggle with making sense … Continue reading
Nostalgia as Arson
A couple of months ago I spent a few weeks “reflecting” my way through Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic, which suggested that both the political right and the political left were “stuck in the past” when trying to articulate Our … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 