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Valleys Fill First
This past week I came into possession of the Caedmon’s Call Guild Volume 4. Unlike its three predecessors, the fourth volume of the batch was all video footage. And while it lacks some of the full-song punch of the other … Continue reading
Think Ahead: Beyond Specialization
One of the things that I like most about Stanley Hauerwas’s letter to Christians starting college is that he takes a few paragraphs to think ahead to the time when a student moves from core curriculum to major and minor … Continue reading
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Think Ahead: Books, Books, Books (or Just Keep Swimming)
In his letter to college freshmen who are Christians, Stanley Hauerwas introduces the idea of students being theologians, which he contextually defines as thinking about what you are learning in light of Christ. This does not happen by making everything … Continue reading
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Think Ahead: Minds Needed, Minds Wanted
The church, particularly the evangelical Protestant kind, often has a strange relationship between faith and learning. It as if one must necessarily cancel out the other. And while I got more of a sense of that when heading off to … Continue reading
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Think Ahead: The College Calling
“The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by a solemn washing with water), uncompromisingly moral (‘be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect,’ said Jesus), and unapologetically intellectual (be … Continue reading
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Two Things for the Toolbox
Yesterday I reflected some on a recent article by Alan Jacobs about “dropping clues in our technological society.” I linked to the article in the hopes that you would take note of the last thing that Jacobs suggests as a … Continue reading
The Back-Drop for the Age
This past weekend I had the opportunity to sit around a breakfast table and talk about James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love. It was an interesting conversation for me, as I’ve been pretty invested in Smith’s thinking … Continue reading
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Some Songs Say So Much
One of the most interesting reads of the past week was an article at FiveThirtyEight from Leah Libresco about the language of contemporary Christian music as compared to the language of shape note hymns. She did a survey and came up with … Continue reading
Trailer Talk: The Dangers of Living Differently?
Caught a matinee of The Lobster yesterday (thoughts to come early next week). One of the joys of seeing an independent movie is that you see trailers for all of these other movies that you’ve probably never heard of. Case in … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 