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We’ve been preaching through the ‘5 Senses’ at St. Benedict Hall with Wednesday’s eucharist homily culminating in a biblical theology of one of the senses and the way in which it leads us to Jesus. Our bodies were made for the Lord, “and the Lord for the body” (1 Cor. 6:13).
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A commentary on the 2019 Book of Common Prayer’s service for the “Reconciliation of Penitents”.
First, you enter. You have been waited upon. You are welcome in this space, have a seat.
Idly do people talk about “leaving the world at the door.” That is not true here. Bring the world with you —your cares, problems, stresses, sins, failures, collapsing dreams, the smell of where you just were, the thoughts which occupied you from your car to this little room, the screaming of children (yours or someone else’s), and the million things you need to do when you leave here —all of that bring with you. Leave none of it out.
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I recently saw the new commercial for Google Pixel 8 which highlights the device’s AI-enhanced “best-take” application feature. You can watch it here […] My first response was to laugh, modestly but not quite quietly. There is an Office episode (season 2, episode 21) in which Michael Scott does the same thing with photoshop. The result (which is the featured image above) is less than impressive.
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p/c: kieran white
A personal history.
Movement 1.
I did not grow-up with Advent as a season of waiting. Like many people in contemporary society I grew up with a strange season that came to span all the days from Thanksgiving to the Day-after-Christmas as a kind of elongated Holiday season… “elongated” is maybe too generous… “distended to the point of rupture” is probably a better description. Sometimes it started as early as the Day-after-Halloween.
Dracula is not merely a vampire tale; it is the vampire tale. The ‘vampire’ as a cultural icon find its genesis in Stoker’s novel. Indeed almost the entire horror genre (whether film or books) can be traced to Stoker’s Dracula and Shelley’s Frankenstein. Though neither Stoker nor Shelley were Christians, their works are crucially important for our study: they tell us what modernity is; they tell us about ourselves. What does this mean?
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On p.40 of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Mario keeps his older brother from sleep attempting to circle the conversation towards his real goal: the question of “do you believe in God?”
Hal complains, “You ask me this once a week.”
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There is a series of days which exists in the Church’s calendar which has all but disappeared from the Christian calendars of contemporary American Christianity save for one lingering event: trick-or-treating on Halloween.
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During our time we watched through some of the Harry Potter films, and my wife got to see, for the first time, one of the most evil villains in film and literature: Dolores Umbridge.
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In preparation for a trip to Israel I’ve been reading about Joppa (modern day Jaffa). Here are some choice morsels from my notes (which are, as usual, indebted to James B. Jordan the apostolic fathers of the early church):
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When it comes to awkward moments, tense moments, moments of severe relational tension, Jane Austen rules with all the mastery of a high-born chatelaine. Though I’ve written about the awkward in other places before, this weekend’s readings for my literature class (from Pride and Prejudice) demand some further consideration.
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