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Having Your Attention (and eating it, too?)
Yesterday’s classic Calvin and Hobbes also reminded me of something Andy Crouch recently said about technology and the attention our screens demand from us (connected to Calvin and his appliances). From “Small Screens, Big World”: Our screens, increasingly, pay a … Continue reading
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Life as It Buffers
From Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (upon seeing the dreaded swirling circle on his computer screen): But on this thought’s outer reaches lay a much less reassuring counter-thought: what if it were just a circle spinning on my screen, and nothing … Continue reading
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In But Not Of, Teaching and Learning Edition
Reading Alan Jacobs’ biography of C. S. Lewis, I couldn’t help but imagine what it must have been like to listen to the man lecture. Then I couldn’t help but remember how far most academic institutions have moved from a … Continue reading
The Difference Between Temporal and Eternal Things
From Augustine’s On Christian Teaching: So there are these three things which all knowledge and prophecy serve: faith, hope, and love. But faith will be replaced by the sight of visible reality, and hope by the real happiness which we shall … Continue reading
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Thirty-Eight Years and Never First
From the Gospel of John (English Standard Version from biblegateway.com): After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has … Continue reading
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Young Lewis Worried
From Alan Jacobs’ The Narnian, a biography of C. S. Lewis: I have already noted that [Lewis’s] education and his experience had combined to stifle his imaginative side; he seems to have been determined, at this stage of his life, … Continue reading
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Good News, Not Good Advice
From N. T. Wright’s Simply Good News: In many churches, the good news has subtly changed to good advice: Here’s how to live, they say. Here’s how to pray. Here are techniques for helping you become a better Christian, a … Continue reading
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The John Who Loves
From Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What: The way John writes about Jesus makes you feel like the sum of our faith is a kind of constant dialogue with Jesus about whether or not we love Him. I grew … Continue reading
Let the Took Decide
From The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien: As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts … Continue reading
Forgetting, Losing, and Finding Ourselves
One last selection from Bonhoeffer’s Life Together concerning reading the Bible together: Consecutive reading of Biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for … Continue reading
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