HeyJaredThe Porch - Gareth Higgins & Friends
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SPIDER-MEN? (opens the original)
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I loved the new Spider-Man movie Brand New Day; for lots of reasons, most of all how it presents a vision of manhood that could transcend the broken versions that are so loudly available. I’ve written more about Brand New Day below. In the meantime, if you’re a man* who feels called to a way of being that’s more about imagination than aggression, more interdependency than separatism, more shared responsibility than scapegoating, more creative sharing than selfish individualism, I want to invite
THE ODYSSEY (opens the original)
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Hi friends - I keep thinking about The Odyssey, (last week I shared some things it provoked me to think about) so my thoughts shared below are likely to evolve. But a week after seeing it for a third time, and a day before my fourth viewing, what’s fascinating - and exciting - to me is that there is a genuine public conversation about the meaning of a movie. And even though people (including one of the source text’s most recent translators) are expressing wildly divergent opinions (I’m not sure
What "The Odyssey"Provoked Me to Think About (opens the original)
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I wrote the notes below before I saw The Odyssey, but they arrived back in my feed today, a few hours after the movie. As I ponder what I might write about it, I want to first share these thoughts again, along with an invitation to some of us to gather in-person to reflect - partly - on myth, meaning, and medicine for the soul.Perhaps the most frequent tragedy is almost the simplest: entire lives obsessed with fending off death, and in the process never experiencing life at all. The paradox at t
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