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“Full of a Beautiful Gloom”
I’m not totally sure what to make of this recent Plough essay by Clare Coffey, but I know that I like a lot of it. In the piece, Coffey tries to tackle the weird “vibe” that takes us through autumn, … Continue reading
A Summary of Things
Brad East, of Abilene Christian University, has a knack for observation and summary. Case in point: today’s blog post titled “A Loosening.” The premise? It seems to me there has been, in the past twenty years, what I’m going to … Continue reading
Beyond Sharing
Yesterday I shared an initial post about Justin Whitmel Earley’s Made for People. It’s not the first book from Earley that I’ve enjoyed. A few years ago, The Common Rule captured the zeitgeist of the “routines and habits” emphasis (that … Continue reading
Summer with Some Saints (part two)
A couple of days ago I mentioned spending the summer with some saints. In that entry, it was St. Francis of Assisi through the writings of G. K. Chesterton. At the same time I was reading about Francis, I was … Continue reading
Summer with Some Saints (part one)
A decent bit of my reading this summer has been “saint-centric.” Right now I’m slowly working through Fire Within by Thomas Dubay. The book is a consideration of prayer through the works of Teresa of Avila and John of the … Continue reading
Laity Lodge on My Mind
Even when it isn’t summer, my mind often wanders to Laity Lodge. It wanders there in the summer, of course, because the two times I’ve visited the retreat center have both been in late June/early July. I visited the first … Continue reading
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On Forgetting
(Forced) Forgetfulness was a theme in this week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Here’s the trailer for the episode, which gives some hint of the price of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness (forced or otherwise) is also a key thread in The Silver … Continue reading
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Tagged CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek
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A Song for the Day
A classic song from Rich Mullins to close out the day. Like so many of Rich’s songs, it balances the beauty and the tension that can come with life as we know and experience it. Always a good thing to … Continue reading
On the Remarkable Ordinary
These last couple of weeks, my morning reading has been a slow (mostly re-)read of Frederick Buechner’s The Remarkable Ordinary. It was one of the last two books of Buechner’s to be published before his death last August. I started … Continue reading
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“Because We Are Written”
Brad East has been blogging a bit more recently. His take on academics and AI is pretty genius (and something I’ve shared with a number of co-workers). He also recently posted a piece on fantasy literature, comedy, and the question … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 