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A Simple Code
This past week I spoke to some students about the importance of having some kind of code (or what others would call a rule). The context was the realization that a lot of things were being thrown at them (which … Continue reading
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Wendell Berry and “The Commitment That Doesn’t See Any End”
At the end of a recent interview with Amanda Petrusich of The New Yorker, Wendell Berry characterized the life of faith with some interesting wording. When asked about religion, particularly in terms of his parents’ faith and his upbringing, Berry … Continue reading
Summertime Trivium
In yesterday’s post I mentioned three things I was keeping in mind as I planned out and worked through my summer. Those three things we mostly “structural.” By that I mean they are key to the framework of the season. … Continue reading
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Summer Stew
On some level, the transition from school year to summer-time is an opportunity to trade out one set of concerns for another. Time works a particular way during the school year: the days are packed with routines and habits that … Continue reading
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Tolkien, Myth, and Reality
Last night I had the opportunity to catch an early showing of the new Tolkien biopic. I’d known about the showing for a while, but wasn’t sure I would make the early showing, even though it had a 30-minute interview … Continue reading
Easter Sunday’s Best
Upon finding this song by Rick Elias that was on Rich Mullins’s The Jesus Record, I discovered that Elias had recently died from cancer. Elias was a founding member of the Ragamuffin Band, which played with Mullins often. The comment … Continue reading
“I’ve Got a Feeling”
In the spring of 1921, some eight years before his conversion to Christianity, C. S. Lewis said this about death: I have seen death fairly often and never yet been able to find it anything but extraordinary and rather incredible. … Continue reading
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The Lonely Pilgrim’s Regress
One of the best parts of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress is the afterword to the book’s third edition. The book, the first Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, is a fantastical retelling of his journey to the … Continue reading
A Rule for Embracing, Resisting, and Attending
My first week of spring break is quietly and quickly coming to an end. And while I haven’t gotten as much done as I’d hoped, I have been able to do some quality reading. This afternoon, I finished Justin Whitmel … Continue reading
Memory and the Season
Hans Boersma, whose Heavenly Participation I hope to write through over the next week or so, just had a short piece published over at First Things. While it is tied to the season of Lent, it definitely has implications for … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 