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The Embodied Life of the Mind: An Anniversary

By Christopher Phillips July 11, 2017 Faith No Comments

It’s been one year exactly since I crashed my bike and badly broke my right wrist. From nearly the moment of impact, I’ve had remarkably good care, from the good…

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Why Study Emily Dickinson at a Time Like This? (audio lecture)

By Christopher Phillips November 18, 2016 Faith, Hymns, reading No Comments

Last week, I was honored to give a lecture sponsored by the Friends of Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, MA. The friends and the library staff were gracious,…

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Poetic Faith 2016: lectio divina

By Christopher Phillips August 3, 2016 Faith, Poetic Faith Seminar, reading, Uncategorized No Comments

As my previous posts on the embodied life of the mind suggest, it’s been a bit tough getting work done lately. With my dominant hand out of commission for several…

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Poetic Faith, 2016 edition: Introduction

By Christopher Phillips June 27, 2016 Faith, Hymns, reading, Uncategorized No Comments

Last summer, I devised an imaginary seminar titled “Poetic Faith” to guide myself through a mass of readings on topics related broadly to my research. I’ve found myself drawing on…

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“You Will Live in Silence”: A Descent into Lent

By Christopher Phillips February 9, 2016 Faith, reading No Comments

This morning in Philadelphia, a light snow is falling over Mardi Gras. The rushers are still rushing, the panhandlers are still panhandling, the laughers are still laughing, and the honkers…

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Word from Porter Street, #3 (new series): Brett Foster, pt. 2

By Christopher Phillips December 30, 2015 Faith, Podcast, reading 2 Comments

This installment of The Word from Porter Street is the second and last part of my reading of the late Brett Foster’s poetry. Here’s the list of poems:   “City Church…

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Word from Porter Street #2 (new series): Brett Foster, pt. 1

By Christopher Phillips December 11, 2015 Faith, Podcast, reading No Comments

This latest installment is the first part of a multi-installment tribute to the late Brett Foster, poet and Renaissance literature professor at Wheaton College, Illinois. I met Brett at a…

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Poetic Faith: Embodied Reading

By Christopher Phillips August 7, 2015 Faith, reading No Comments

The blog has been a bit quiet lately. The reading has been a bit less intense as well. This is because reading is not merely a mental activity. It is…

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Post-secularism 1: Radical Orthodoxy

By Christopher Phillips July 24, 2015 Faith 1 Comment

On to James K. A. Smith’s Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology (2004), the first of two posts exploring competing discourses of post-secularism. Smith is a philosopher at Calvin College…

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Poetic Faith: We Have Never Been Secular

By Christopher Phillips July 24, 2015 Faith, Uncategorized No Comments

Nearing the end of Week 1 of my “seminar,” I still have a fair amount of reading to do, but I’ve also been happily immersed enough to come up with…

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