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What You Love and How You Love It
One of the biggest blessings in my understanding of things over the last couple of years has been the writings of James K. A. Smith. His Desiring the Kingdom was a real “right place, right time” scenario for me. He’s … Continue reading
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Acknowledging Emergence
One of the best things I took away from David Brooks’ The Social Animal is his thinking on emergent systems. His definition: Emergent systems exist when different elements come together and produce something that is greater than the sum of … Continue reading
Berry and the Interlocking World
I really like how N. T. Wright thinks of heaven and earth as a kind of “interlocking reality.” Both are important, essential in the way things are made. And I especially like how Wendell Berry catches something like it in … Continue reading
DFW on “Reading Something That is Good and Real”
A large chunk of my reading time this past December was dedicated to reading through Stephen J. Burn’s Conversations with David Foster Wallace. The book is a collection of interviews that spans Foster Wallace’s career and that represents each part … Continue reading
About a Long Way Down
This past weekend, NBC premiered About a Boy a sitcom based on a movie based on a book by Nick Hornby. The premiere episode was a nice, pared-down update. Whether or not the premises gets fleshed out into a viable … Continue reading
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The Art of Living
Last week a life-long friend of mine posted her thoughts on how all of our lives are art, that “if we are made in God’s image, and if He is in the business of creating (and He is – just … Continue reading
Reading N. D. Wilson
While I can’t seem to get into his long-form non-fiction, I’ve found myself quite enjoying N. D. Wilson’s more fictional or shorter stuff. I recently rushed through the second and third entries in the Ashtown Burials series. Much like his … Continue reading
Klosterman’s Generational Erosion
One of my most enjoyable reads this summer (amidst a few apocalyptic novels) was Chuck Klosterman’s I Wear the Black Hat. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book, as it was all about villains and villainy in almost … Continue reading
N. T. Wright and the Question of Worldview
N. T. Wright’s latest book, The Case for the Psalms, dropped last week without much fanfare. It’s a little book, small in both page size and page count. It is also, surprisingly, a brilliant book about worldview. Worldview has been … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 