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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.
Asking the LEGO Question
It’s a good question, one that actually comes to mind every now and then. Community season three: the question was asked, but was it every answered?
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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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LOST at 30 Rock
These days I’m enjoying a quick trip back through the fifth season of 30 Rock. The wordplay throughout the season is amazing (particularly with the episode titled “College”). It’s also interesting to see how often LOST was occasionally referenced in … 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
Finding Dory: Into Darkness
Like many Americans, I spent a couple of hours in the theater this past weekend catching up with Dory, Marlin, and Nemo. And by catching up with, I mean swimming far into the murky existential depths of the children’s movie … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 