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Tag Archives: James K A Smith
“Distill, and Know That I am God”
Let’s start with this recent classic Calvin and Hobbes strip recently posted to gocomics.com: I’m about to board a plane that will take me to a place I’ve never been that’s also a place where there’s a lot of nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Faith, Teaching, The Long Story
Tagged Alan Jacobs, James K A Smith
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A Land of Lonely Hunters
A common theme from the last few weeks of news articles and essays and reading points to the issue of loneliness as a real fruit of our modern era. I suppose we’ve known this since the release of Bowling … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Faith, Notes for a World's End
Tagged Henri Nouwen, James K A Smith
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Waiting for the King (but not for the book)
Thanks to the kind folks at Hearts and Minds Books, I was able to get my copy of James K. A Smith’s Awaiting the King a few days before the actual release day. And so I waited for Thor:Ragnarok by … Continue reading
Our Shared Life and the King
Part of me thinks the stakes are quite high for James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King. That’s partly because of the cultural and political climate in which we find ourselves. Attached to that is the seeming “attack approach” that … Continue reading
The Questions of Pastoral Care
The folks over at Comment Magazine have posted the first half of a conversation between James K. A. Smith (You Are What You Love) and Tim Keller (recently of Redeemer Presbyterian Church). A great conversation about the church and … Continue reading
Dovetailing Dreher and Smith
The last couple of weeks have brought a number of reactions to Rod Dreher’s eagerly-awaited book on conservative Christians in contemporary culture, The Benedict Option. For many, it’s been an interesting litmus test for where particular “personalities” in the Christian … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Books, Faith, Teaching
Tagged James K A Smith, Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option
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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
Posted in Books, Faith, Teaching
Tagged Habits, James K A Smith, You Are What You Love
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Nostalgia as Arson
A couple of months ago I spent a few weeks “reflecting” my way through Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic, which suggested that both the political right and the political left were “stuck in the past” when trying to articulate Our … Continue reading
Two Things for the Toolbox
Yesterday I reflected some on a recent article by Alan Jacobs about “dropping clues in our technological society.” I linked to the article in the hopes that you would take note of the last thing that Jacobs suggests as a … Continue reading
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