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Tapping into the Heart
Here’s a second video from Brazos Press leading up to the release of James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love. Along with its predecessor, the video is a nice taste of what Smith seems to have been thinking … Continue reading
The Ever-Present Future
Douglas Coupland has been writing and drawing us into the future for some time. He has a particular knack for “getting things right” years before they happen. While I don’t always enjoy his short essays for the Financial Times, I … Continue reading
Who You Say We Are
This past weekend saw the release of Steven Curtis Chapman’s latest, a worship album called Worship and Believe. The two terms in the title hang together awkwardly. We might think that the reverse is the appropriate order: believe and worship. … Continue reading
Closing the Door on Downton Abbey
This Sunday sees the final episode of PBS’s Downton Abbey. While the show never quite lived up to its first season promise, it was an enjoyable weekly visit to another time and another place. The episode airing Sunday night is … Continue reading
Formation and What You Love
These past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to work through the concept of formation with some of my peers. It’s been an interesting journey made even more interesting by the thoughts of James K. A. Smith. Smith’s new book, … Continue reading
Bouncing Back with the Agents of SHIELD
It feels like forever-and-a-day ago since the mid-season finale of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. The first half of the season was a great example of accelerated story-telling, with a number of major twists and turns taken in what would take … Continue reading
Dwelling and Indwelling
One of the things I like most about N. T. Wright’s image of the biblical story like a five-act play is how it holds the story together while also emphasizing the underlying connective tissue. One such tissue is found in … Continue reading
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To Market, To Market (or: we are the data)
The spring of great reading has sprung. The local Barnes & Noble had a few copies of Douglas Rushkoff’s new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. In this video, he talks about markets (medieval) and marketing (way too modern). … Continue reading
A High-Five Story
Here’s an interesting video from the folks at Laity Lodge. It involves one of my favorite writers (James K. A. Smith) and one of my favorite musicians (Andy Gullahorn). It’s a slightly awkward video, as it might seem to make … Continue reading
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Answering in the Affirmative
Friday morning, the first song in the morning’s shuffle was Toad the Wet Sprocket’s “Is It for Me.” As I walked around my classroom rearranging tables to prepare for student presentations and thought about the lyrics’ hope that odd things … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 