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Toward a Sense of Suffering?
This last week we have been talking about the problem of evil in class. It’s a short unit, but you’d like to think it’s something that will come back around (the discussion, not the evil) throughout a lifetime. Attempting to … Continue reading
“A Little Incarnation”
From the introduction to Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms: It seems to me appropriate, almost inevitable, that when that great Imagination which in the beginning, for Its own delight and for the delight of men and angels and (in their … Continue reading
Singing a Song of Ascent
It’s always a good time when you get back around to the songs of ascent in the book of Psalms, and not just because they tend to be shorter than the average psalm. There’s a certain sense of place and … Continue reading
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Grace, Forgiveness, the Engine
From a recent post by Alan Jacobs concerning the school he teaches at and the issue of racial reconciliation: Christianity has a lot to say about sin, repentance, and forgiveness. It tells us that we all sin. It tells us … Continue reading
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Minding the Messengers
In the section of Antifragile about “skin in the game,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines prophets and their task: Prophecy is a pledge of belief, little else. A prophet is not someone who first had an idea; he is the one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jacobs, Rod Dreher
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On Humility
Yesterday I mentioned some interesting connections between stuff and people that I had been reading, how even if one thing didn’t explicitly lead to another, I still kind of ended up at a particular destination with so much in tow. … Continue reading
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A Moment with Moses
These last few years I’ve been thinking about “leadership” much more often than I thought it would. So it’s no surprise that a recent reread of a moment in the life of Moses stuck out to me in a way … Continue reading
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The Before and After of Easter
Over the last couple of years, I’ve found the lens of friendship to be one way to deepen my understanding of the Easter story. I even tried to articulate it in my Easter talk for chapel a couple of weeks … Continue reading
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Warmth in the Winter
Perhaps the clearest voice for me as I’ve tried to understand Our Current Moment has been Andy Crouch. He doesn’t work alone, of course. With the team at Praxis, he has articulated a handful of thoughtful articles that have brought … Continue reading
Shock but not Surprise
Yesterday our administration announced that we would remain in online learning protocol through the end of the year. While I wasn’t surprised by the decision, there’s still something of a “shock to the system” with the news. It’s one thing … Continue reading
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