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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
Twenty Years Later . . .
Twenty years ago, this teaser trailer was released: It is difficult to imagine a world where the finished product of Peter Jackson and friends hasn’t been realized. How odd to have a voice-over by someone not from the movie! How … Continue reading
Point and Counterpoint
Yesterday I posted links to a couple of articles by Yuval Levin attempting to speak intelligently about Our Current Moment from a place where ethics, economics, politics, and sociology meet. Since then, another couple of articles have made their way … Continue reading
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On Hold and Keeping Place
Navigating the facts and opinions of Our Current Moment can be a daunting task: you can always choose one news source, I suppose, but that becomes it’s own echo-chamber. So it’s nice to find sources that can give a critical … Continue reading
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“For the Sake of Your Love”
It’s taken a few days, but I think I’ve found a decent morning routine for “spring break” that could easily last me for the next month depending on how school scheduling works out. A good almost hour-long walk in the … Continue reading
Where Allegory and Story Converge
From a letter of Tolkien’s to Sir Stanley Unwin dated 31 July 1947 (written in response to comments made by Rayner Unwin): I cannot bear funny books or plays myself, I mean those that set out to be all comic; … Continue reading
“The Whole Story”
From a letter written to Christopher Tolkien by his father dated 28 December 1944: I am glad the third lot of Ring arrived to date, and that you liked it– although it seems to have added to yr. homesickness. It … Continue reading
Reading Mark throughout Lent
This year Mark provides the Gospel through-line for the season of Lent. When I realized this, my mind went straight to something written by Eugene Peterson many years ago (and anthologized in his collection Subversive Spirituality). I thought it might … Continue reading
“The Soil for Unexpected Good”
About fifty letters into The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Humphrey Carpenter we get a series of letters to Tolkien’s third son, Christopher. The letters move back and forth wonderfully and soberingly between the events of World … Continue reading
Pastors and Lonely People
It is interesting to me that Andrew Root gives his better definition of the office of pastor in a chapter titled “All the Lonely People.” Search the terms pastor and lonely online and you’ll find at least one article a … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 