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Love, Friendship, and Destiny
During one of my first summers in Hawaii, I taught a course at church using Larry Crabb’s Soul Talk. The basic premise of the book was that Christians should be able to communicate with one another in such a way … Continue reading
Learning the Language
A quote from Bonhoeffer’s Meditating on the Word recently crossed my Twitter stream that I thought was interesting: Grounded in the Scripture, we learn to speak to God in the language that God has spoken to us. It’s a wonderful … Continue reading
Be the Body, Eat the Body
The church, both universal and local, has been a big part of my thinking for a long time now. For as long as I can remember, the church has been central to my experience as a person and as a … Continue reading
Who Needs a Patronus When . . .
The nostalgia factor of Pokemon Go could lead anyone to think that the whole strategy has been planned for years. Which makes you think something like this could be right around the corner (especially for those unsatisfied with The Cursed … Continue reading
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Kubla Khan and Ecclesiology
Since the conception of “youth culture,” the tendency towards an entertainment-first focus has always been a danger. Bells and whistles, light shows and rock music, spiritual highs and week-later letdowns have always been landmines in the field of souls. The … Continue reading
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Co-opting William Blake
It’s not everyday that you get see a William Blake poem used for a car commercial . . .
In Class with Klosterman
This semester I’m trying a couple of new things with my students to try and engage them on an intellectual level that doesn’t necessarily feed the beast of academia. We are currently in a unit where we talk about the … Continue reading
Anybody Got a Match?
This past Sunday I was joking with a friend about how great a Lord of the Rings (extended edition) marathon would be just hours before students arrived to start the new year. And while I was totally joking, I did … Continue reading
On Liberty
Over the course of The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin traces the recent history of both our country and the people who constitute it. While government and big business and culture are huge movers in the story, the daily practitioners of … Continue reading
The Difference between Community and Identity
One of the things that has been most beneficial for me from reading Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic is that it has given me better language to describe the situation we find ourselves in. Case in point: Levin’s discussion of … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 