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September (2026) (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowto read: booksFrom Object to Icon — Andrew WilliamsHere are some brief, initial thoughts, though I took many pages of notes, and started building up many more pages into something like a mess of the most unwieldy collection of thought webs. Not sure what to do with dozens of pages
The Inner Ring, Partiality, and the Grace in Barren Places (opens the original)
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Forgive the deviation in typical themes, if you will. But perhaps we will find it’s actually all connected, indeed.With the ferocity of Aslan on the move, I was reminded of C.S. Lewis’ concept of The Inner Ring1. I’ve linked the essay, which we would all do well to spend some time with.And especially if you write online in any capacity. There are fantastic and wonderful things happening these days, with magazines and publications and collective
the priests of medicine (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about priests lately, potent as the claims about their role are. Our family spent time with one this weekend, behind the backdrop of a trampoline and chickens and drizzles showering nine children of walking age out on the lawn. Their spiritual role holds gravitas. Their relational skills are invaluable. Much of what I think through at Life Considered holds the practice of modern medicine in view. What the healing profession has become is something else in many ways, unmoored f
wendell berry: vignettes (opens the original)
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Winter 2014-2015 — San Antonio, TexasJayber CrowWe are a few years into the iPhone, and Twitter is where many wordy, millennial Christians can be found. Hipster culture is booming among us. People had been talking about Wendell in my spheres since undergraduate days. Now, his writing is picking up up steam. Is it a gloss over the hidden pains we feel behind all the ironical, cynical jokes—behind realities yet to fully name? We are young! We have places to be, life to explore. We have crushes. Mi
August (2026) (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowto read: booksAnna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy This was my second go-round, the last time being two summers ago. I’ll be honest in admitting that I’ve followed the actual livestream of the Lindsay Clancy trial quite closely the last three weeks. It was a strange experience listening to this novel alongside the piecing together of the psychology and tragedy b
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