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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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Something Beyond Bad Traditionalism?
It’s always amazing to me how one thing you read can inadvertently lead to another. I spent a good bit of my spring slowly reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s Antifragile. I read it because it had a praise-worthy mention in an … Continue reading
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How We See, How We Write
I can’t remember how, but George Packer’s “The Enemies of Writing” piece from The Atlantic (January 2020) came across my path last week. The essay is a re-write of an acceptance speech given upon Packer’s winning of the Hitchens Prize. … Continue reading
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Remembering Places and Times
I have to say, as nice as it has been to find a cafe or restaurant to sit and read some, it’s been the return of background music. Over the last few months, I haven’t listened to music much accept … Continue reading
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SHIELD on the Island
Last day of June, as crazy as that sounds. In just a few hours we start the second half of 2020. Lots of fears (and jokes, for some) about what the next few months might bring. We are in uncharted … Continue reading
Espionage in the Days of Disco
Today has been a day! It started before the crack of dawn with the second Zoom meeting for my summer audit class, Pastoral Ministry in the Modern Novel. Today we discussed what we had learned from Cry, the Beloved Country … Continue reading
Ministry is Friendship
I’m just few hours away from the first live Zoom meeting of the course that I’m auditing this summer through my old university. I am cautiously optimistic about the opportunity. Last night I sat down to write my reflection of … Continue reading
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Back to Class
When it became clear that I probably wouldn’t be traveling to Tennessee this summer, I decide to look for good ways to frame my time. Vacations are always a little tricky for me: I tend to do best when I’ve … Continue reading
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Sometimes by Step
A classic song for the end of a good but tiring school year.
Endings, Beginnings, and Endings
Today was one of those days, usual for late May but particularly potent this year, where the endings and beginnings of things kind of roll into one. Part of it for me is because I end classes with seniors earlier … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 