Fall 2017—a wrap, and a turn to writing
The first set of grades are in, the next set should be done in a few days, and then I will officially be finished with this first semester back in…
Read morePoetic Faith Seminar 3: syllabus and preview
My second annual Poetic Faith seminar—a “virtual” seminar that involves me reading a bunch of books and essays that fuel my ongoing research interests—got a bit sidelined this summer. Something…
Read moreEmbodied Life of the Mind, October 2016: #amwriting
Last week I finished the first draft of my new book. Moving to Worcester, MA with a broken wrist in August, I wasn’t sure how this process would go, but…
Read morePoetic Faith 2016: lectio divina
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…
Read moreThe Embodied Life of the Mind: An Improvised Sequel
In my last post, I reflected on my writing life and my body and the history between the two. At the end, I announced I was going on a bike…
Read morePoetic Faith, 2016 edition: Introduction
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…
Read moreVeterans’ Day: A Retrospective Across Space and Time
One of the great gifts of holidays is the call to remember. We can take or leave that call, just as we decide whether and how to observe holidays, but…
Read morePoetic Faith: The Monkhood of All Believers?
I said last time that the next blog post would be on lived religion. I’d intended for that to incorporate David Hall’s Lived Religion in America (1997), one of the watershed…
Read morePost-secularism 2: Enchantment (long) after Weber
Now to take a deep breath after Smith’s take on Radical Orthodoxy and continue to a non-theistic, non-teleogical proposal for living in a post-secular world: Jane Bennett’s The Enchantment of…
Read morePoetic Faith: We Have Never Been Secular
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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