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Map or Globe?
Seth Godin recently posted some thoughts that might be helpful in getting a handle on the world we are all trying to navigate. From a post titled “Maps or Globes”: If someone needs directions, don’t give them a globe. It’ll … Continue reading
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Non-Curiosity, the New Standard?
Seth Godin asked a good question today of contemporary culture and our relationship with curiosity: The bestselling novel of 1961 was Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent. Millions of people read this 690-page political novel. In 2016, the big sellers were … Continue reading
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Time and Voice
I have some friends expecting their first child in April. For Christmas, I bought them a copy of Anthony Esolen’s Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. I was so intrigued by the premise that I bought myself a … Continue reading
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2016 and Questions of Habit, Routine, and Ritual
I suppose the book that most shaped 2016 for me was James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love. The book, which dropped in the spring, was a recapitulation of Smith’s earlier work on “cultural liturgies” with more practical … Continue reading
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One Other Office Goodbye
Yesterday I posted a scene of significance from Steve Carrell’s final episode of The Office. Beyond Dwight, Jim and Pam are the characters that Michael connected with most over the course of his awkward time as manager. And it is … Continue reading
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This weekend our seniors are going to their last high school camp. We often talk to our students about the transition from high school to college as a way of helping them see much of life as a series of … Continue reading
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On Some Fundamental Presuppositions
The folks over at Eerdman’s just posted a nice interview with Ephraim Radner, whose latest book drops this week. Radner has been interesting to me over these last few months, both in his posts over at First Things and in … Continue reading
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Ancient Revolution in the Tense Present
N. T. Wright’s most recent book dropped this week. The Day the Revolution Began focuses on the death of Jesus. One of the questions Wright tackles early in the book is the question of the revolution’s content. From the book’s first … Continue reading
Pilgrim Days: A Hospitable World
Before he gets into a discussion of the ways contemporary culture has re-defined the identity of the pilgrim, Bauman casts one last picture of the kind of world necessary for a “classical” pilgrimage to take place. “Both life and and … Continue reading
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Pilgrim Days: Changes in Identification
A few weeks ago, Rod Dreher spent a post reflecting on “From Pilgrim to Tourist- or a Short History of Identity” by Zygmunt Bauman as part of his continuing articulation of “the Benedict Option.” A made a copy of the … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 