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Sunday’s Best: What Dreams May Come?
I recently finished A Pilgrimage into Letting Go by Andrew and Kara Root. It’s an interesting gloss on Hartmut Rosa’s thinking about the (un)controllability of the world. Today’s Sunday-sized Frazz has some nice overlap with Rosa’s thinking, too.
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Maintenance Work
Week two of fall break has felt significantly different than week one. Week on was full of movies; week two has been full of board/dice games. Week one was about wrapping up the first quarter; week two has been about … Continue reading
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Just As I Am [October 6, 2025]
And so fall break begins, not with a bang but with a . . . drizzle? (And a not unwelcome one at that.) Today marks the first full day of fall break, which isn’t totally accurate because an odd overlap … Continue reading
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On Reading
I suppose that writing and reading advice can be found just about anywhere these days (assuming that you can’t get something else to read or write for you, which is more likely the case). So it’s a rare pleasure to … Continue reading
By the Book
Today’s post by Seth Godin is short and really sweet. I like the comparison/contrast he pulls off with both ends of a book: the table of contents and the index (and I’m kind of surprised I’ve not seen it before). … Continue reading
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“The Grain of Prayer”
The folks over at Crossway recently posted an excerpt from The Deep Things of God by Fred Sanders having to do with a Trinitarian approach to prayer. Like the rest of the book, it is an enjoyable and edifying read. … Continue reading
My Summer in Scotland
Well, in a weird kind way I’ve spend most of my summer in Scotland. True, I didn’t get any further east than Tennessee this summer in the real world, but in the world of tv, movies, and books, I’ve regularly … Continue reading
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Four Big Questions
Curt Thompson’s The Soul of Desire is the kind of book that paints a picture that you know is beyond your grasp. He’s a professional writing from his own experience about a kind of community-building that he has created and … Continue reading
What You Get, What You Really Want
It seems to me that a good deal of “religious” conversation boils down to two things. The first is conversation as reporting. This usually comes from a good place, a place of some interest and concern. Sometimes it can grow … Continue reading
Together
I was genuinely, and pleasantly, surprised by how much of Curt Thomspon’s The Soul of Desire is concerned with his idea of confessional communities. I knew a bit about the idea from skimming through his podcast titles, but wasn’t quite … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 