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Fall 2017—a wrap, and a turn to writing

By Christopher Phillips December 12, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Poetic Faith Seminar 3: syllabus and preview

By Christopher Phillips November 20, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Embodied Life of the Mind, October 2016: #amwriting

By Christopher Phillips October 20, 2016 Uncategorized 2 Comments

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…

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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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The Embodied Life of the Mind: An Improvised Sequel

By Christopher Phillips July 14, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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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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Veterans’ Day: A Retrospective Across Space and Time

By Christopher Phillips November 11, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Poetic Faith: The Monkhood of All Believers?

By Christopher Phillips August 2, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Post-secularism 2: Enchantment (long) after Weber

By Christopher Phillips July 26, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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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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