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Unclosed Loop: How to Think
The floor of my digital mind is littered with reflections that didn’t make it to this site. At the end of December, I started titling a handful of entries with the phrase “Unclosed Loop.” It’s a reference to something I … Continue reading
Unclosed Loop: The Last Jedi
Perhaps the only thing more interesting in the Star Wars universe than The Last Jedi right now is what people have been saying about the movie. I posted my initial thoughts here. Now that school is back in session, though, … Continue reading
Unclosed Loop: U2’s Songs of Experience
I’ve been meaning to get something a little more substantial down concerning U2’s most recent release, Songs of Experience. It’s been a rough semester for U2 in my classroom. Each fall for the last few years I’ve played “When I … Continue reading
Album + Commentary = Amazing
Today’s visit with friends a good ways away allowed for some quality drive time. Since my phone is weirdly set on “shuffle” mode (and because I am a firm believer in album’s and sequencing), I decided to listen through some … Continue reading
A Poem for Christmas Day
For this special day, “The House of Christmas” by G. K. Chesterton: There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close … Continue reading
Love’s Labor
Well, it’s the time of year where I would love to be able to see Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God tour. Unfortunately, it always wraps long before I get back to Tennessee for the holidays. So I’m thankful … Continue reading
Forever Father Christmas
Finished most of my “ship to home” shopping this afternoon. A few years ago I decided it was much easier to mail the chocolate mac-nuts, coffees, and calendars home instead of packing it all in the suitcase and then trudging … Continue reading
Technology and the Season
Yesterday I mentioned reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity as one of the “practices” that I’m putting in place for the Advent season. Suggestions for times like these usually involve both adding and removing from the routine to help set … Continue reading
Running the Halls (or: revisiting Mere Christianity)
One of the few practices I’m trying out over the Advent season is the (re)reading of a book. Because the season last just over three weeks, I thought it was a decent amount of time to do a slow reread … Continue reading
Advent and the Clash of Calendars
Today marks the beginning of the Advent season which, in turn, marks the beginning of what is known as the church calendar. That church calendar is not much of a Baptist thing, is something kept and nurtured by more liturgical … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 