Eve Tushnet
while making chocolate-covered strawberries. SO AWESOME. Here it is live: And just because: Read more
while making chocolate-covered strawberries. SO AWESOME. Here it is live: And just because: Read more
Merry Christmas! Here’s me blathering. Read more
Mountain Goats cover “Christmas in Prison.” Read more
Obviously Cracked so the usual disclaimers about both crudeness and cavalier use of history apply, and at least one of these seems to be “using peaceful methods” but not “by a pacifist.” Still, I really liked this piece. Read more
“The Minstrel Boy” always gets me. Here a seven-year-old child sings it–scroll to the second recording–in 1904, at a family Christmas, not long before their “short twentieth century” began. Link via TKB. Read more
Wesley Hill: Bonhoeffer suggests, contra Stendahl, that if we’re really to preach about the sin of humanity, we have to avoid yoking that preaching too closely to the feelings of guilt that may or may not be a feature of our hearers’ experience. Regardless of what a person may feel, Bonhoeffer implies, the gospel truly addresses them and lays claim to their lives. The truths of sin and redemption aren’t dependent on the rising and falling of human emotional states.... Read more
Simcha Fisher, for you last-minuters. Read more
I talk about The Conversation at the University Bookman. But what am I really saying? Read more
A lot will depend on the personnel, as always, but ND has a chance to do something exciting and new here. (The Register has its own tics and shibboleths, but I will say that this initiative at ND wouldn’t have existed ten years ago, and if it somehow did, the Register would not have covered it even this positively.) Read more
The time with [her lover] K had turned into three years. In drug years that was a blink. In child years, it was an eternity. Read more
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