Category: C.S. Lewis
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The Doors of the Sea reflection
If you have ever lost someone you dearly loved, suffered some terrible malady, found yourself plagued with a phobia or anxiety over the abyss of your fate, or survived a natural disaster — please read The Doors of the Sea by David Bentley Hart. For the sake of your own hope and joy, please read…
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Top 5 Books You Bought + Read in the Last 5 Years?
I have a simple question on the site today: What were the top five books you bought AND READ in the last 5 years. Leave yours in the comment thread here. — L
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Cormac McCarthy — Pater Noster in The Road
Cormac McCarthy has another theme that plays out in The Road more practically, one I hinted at at the end of the Inferno piece: is the Pater Noster truly something we all share or is it simply a phrase we all use for pater meus? Set aside for a minute that he’s going straight up…
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Stairway to Heaven — πίστει, ἀρετήν, γνῶσιν, ἐγκράτειαν, ὑπομονήν, τὴνεὐσέβειανφιλαδελφίαν, ἀγάπην
Wanted to talk a bit about the flowering of faith — the stairway to heaven — found in the additions of faith passage this morning. I’m sipping my tea at Think in the Financial District (have some errands to run at City Hall for a wedding I’m officiating for a fashion designer this fall). But…
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Chat GPT Ethics, Uses, and Other Ai Ethics — Heliosphere
We gathered at Heliosphere this year for several panels and one included a talk on Chat GPT Ethics, Uses, and Other Ai Ethics. The talk featured Chris Kreuter, Renee Ritchie, and Elektra Hammond — so of course, I was out of my league trying to keep my head above water. We talked through all manner ethical…
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LJ Cohen — Derelict
As I said in FC Shultz’s Rose Weapon review, I’m often the sort of person who feels incessantly indebted to folks partly from my deep well of gratitude and partly from promises I’ve made, even if inadvertently. I tend to keep them, but I often take years. That includes a promise I made to LJ…
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a Defense
Nathan Rabin, film critic and cultural agnostic, coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in 2007. It’s grown in popularity enough that the Nabokovian satirist and aspiring Russian Train Baron Patrick Rothfuss has this to say about himself: So folks — at least certain folks residing in Wisconsin who read The A.V. Club — are…
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Protected: Pride and Prejudice book VS Pride and Prejudice life
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Pinocchio Stop Motion — True Myth of the Cruciform Lie
When we went to MoMA to see Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio stop motion exhibit, I took some pictures I will prize for… maybe the rest of my life? I didn’t expect that, to be sure. The Pinocchio stop motion exhibit featured all manner of behind-the-scenes ephemera that I might not have encountered otherwise. For a…
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Hindu Monotheism : The Upanishads and Vedanta
Questions about Hindu Monotheism — often phrased rather bluntly such as “Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic?” — have cropped up of late. The answer, in a general sense, is either “it depends” or “whose monotheism?” or “which Hinduism?” Folks, at least according to the search trends, seem deeply concerned — even disturbed — that any form of Hinduism…