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Quarter’s End, Find a Spot
The third quarter of the school year comes to a close today. Time flies regardless of whether you’re having fun or not (and I’ve definitely enjoyed this semester). If all goes well, I’ll get to leave the classroom today and … Continue reading
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Body Talk: Breakdown Theory
A few years ago I (somewhat grudgingly) took the StrengthsFinder test for work. Of the five strength themes, connectedness, empathy, and relator surprised me the least. Input was a nice way to label what had become my renewed appetite for … Continue reading
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Religion, Relationship, Reductionism
I heard it again recently: the assertion that the Christian faith is a relationship and not a religion. And while I totally get what those who say such a thing are “going for,” I can’t help but feel like there’s … Continue reading
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Prefacing Scary Close: The Significance of Place
One of the best parts of Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What for me was the preface to the second, expanded edition. One of the significant part’s of Miller’s story that helped me was his simple understanding of place … Continue reading
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Prefacing Scary Close: Intersections
I remember well when my friend Cathy introduced me to Blue Like Jazz and the work of Donald Miller. It was early in my time in Hawaii, and it felt like I was finally settling into some kind of routine. … Continue reading
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The Story Under Your Skin
The author I read most this past year had to be James K. A. Smith. His How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor is probably the best book about a book I’ve ever read. After that, I moved on … Continue reading
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Cynicism and “Come and See”
If I gave an award for “Book Bought Most in 2014,” it would definitely be Steven Garber’s Visions of Vocation. It dropped in late spring, and I was so moved by it that I had to pass it on to … Continue reading
A Cappella in the High Countries
My Faith & Literature class is reading C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce as our final major work of the course. It’s a brilliant book, one that I’ve bought multiple copies of. Caedmon‘s Call recorded a Sandra McCracken-written song based … Continue reading
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Giving Attention, Beyond Demanding Attention
From Simone Weil’s “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies”: Happy then are those who pass their adolescence and youth in developing this power of attention. No doubt they are no nearer to goodness than their brothers working in … Continue reading
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Fiction Writing and Real Living
Near the end of my college career, I took a fiction-writing class. It was not my crowning college achievement. I wrote one pedantic short story about some college student taking the bus home only to . . . well, I … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 