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100 Years and the Land of Mordor
The New York Times recently posted a short piece about the life of JRR Tolkien and its connection to The Lord of the Rings. The author, Joseph Loconte, recently published a biography connecting Tolkien and Lewis. The article begins: In … Continue reading
Affection is Rooted in Imagination
What’s been interesting to me over the last few years of thinking through things like James K. Smith’s cultural liturgies concept (teased out well in You Are What You Love) is how the idea of what you love and how … Continue reading
So Plays the Fool
Travel day today, so a simple post with a deceptively simple song by Andrew Peterson. Funny that it’s Andy Gullahorn (who plays on the song) that shows up in the still image for the video.
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
Space Enough, and Time 