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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
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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Stonehenge and Oxford
A few days behind posting anything trip-related here. WiFi has been a little sketchier than I had anticipated, so I’ll try and get a few things ready for the next bit. The second day “on tour” was a morning at … Continue reading
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Windsor Day
After a day of travel from Honolulu to LAX, from LAX to Detroit, and from Detroit to Heathrow, the group I am with finally made its way to our first major location: Windsor Castle. We had visited Windsor before, as … Continue reading
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Returning to Area X for the First Time
One of the most interesting sci-fi-fi reads for me over the last few years was Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation. It’s the first in the “Southern Reach” trilogy, a trio of books released one every six months for a year. The story … Continue reading
Far from the Maze
This past weekend at camp I had a good conversation with a co-worker about the state of movies, particularly those of the dystopian/teenage kind. I had such high hopes for The Hunger Games, even though I left most of those … Continue reading
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Macbeth by way of McDonald’s
Just back from a weekend at camp. Catching up on a season six episode of 30 Rock led me to this gem, which I had no recollection of when the season originally aired. Fassbender’s Macbeth has nothing on Mayor McCheese.
Class in Session: In a Digital Age
A few weeks ago, one of my favorite authors posted the syllabus to “Living and Thinking in a Digital Age,” the honors course he would be teaching this fall semester. Beyond that, he posted links and DropBox-copies for most of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jacobs, Living and Thinking in a Digital Age, Technology
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