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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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Poetic Faith, Week Two: Practice, Practice, Practice (Theory)

By Christopher Phillips July 29, 2015 Hymns, reading No Comments

This week has been very hot and humid in eastern PA, so I’ve been working in Lafayette’s Skillman Library (or, to borrow the great Michael Suarez’s phrasing, the Skillman) instead…

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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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Poetic Faith: A Brief Prologue

By Christopher Phillips July 20, 2015 Faith, News 2 Comments

The reading is underway, but while I’m still digesting the first few hundred pages, I thought I’d share a bit of background on the Poetic Faith “seminar.” To start with,…

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The Poetic Faith “Seminar”: An Introduction

By Christopher Phillips July 18, 2015 Faith, Hymns, News 2 Comments

I am now officially eighteen days into my first sabbatical. The cycles of euphoria, lethargy, manic productivity, and hubristic goal-setting have been rapid and slightly dizzying thus far. When I…

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