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the original of laura
when I was in tenth grade, my english teacher told us to read a book of our choosing and write a paper on it. i went to the bookstore and found the friggin’ weirdest book i could find: vladimir nabokov’s invitation to a beheading. it blew my mind. it was the first time i ever [...]
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the end of memory
one of my favorite books in recent memory is miroslav volf’s the end of memory. the question he poses in that book is: how ought one remember injustice and violence? most (including myself) would say that you should always hold on tightly to the memory of wrongdoings – to honor the victim(s) and to hold [...]
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Salvador Late or Early | by Sandra Cisneros
Salvador with eyes the color of caterpillar, Salvador of the crooked hair and crooked teeth, Salvador whose name the teacher cannot remember, is a boy who is no one’s friend, runs along somewhere in that vague direction where homes are the color of bad weather, lives behind a [...]
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no conviction
a cool parable that wonders what it means to be a christian from an interesting thinker.
In a world where following Christ is decreed to be a subversive and illegal activity, you have been accused of being a believer, arrested and dragged before a court.
You have been under clandestine surveillance for some time now and so [...]
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this is an outstanding book
“So in Jesus’ own teaching, in his choice not to avoid confrontation with the temple leaders and their Roman overseers, we find that his most definitive calling is neither to cultivate nor create — though, as we have seen, he did both extensively. The core calling of his life is not something he does at [...]
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on love and contracts
For instance, take the example of two people getting married with the firm conviction that the union will last as long as they both live. In this state of obvious delusion no real decision needs to be made. The future is believed to be so certain that the decision to marry requires no decision at [...]
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proof
i can’t prove the friendship of my friend. when i experience it, i don’t need to prove it. when i don’t experience it, no proof will do…
i cannot prove that life is better than death or love better than hate. i cannot prove the greatness of the great or the beauty of the beautiful. i [...]
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the new conspirators
in my reflection seminar, we read the dissertation of a uw phd candidate that looked at how poor, ethnic minority kids are socially ostracized in schools by students and teachers. the paper shared story after story of racist acts, and sadly, these were all recent examples around the seattle area. schools are supposed to be [...]
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Love
While they were considering whether to stone her –
and why not? — he knelt
and with his finger wrote
something in the dust. We are
as you know made from
dust, and the unknown
word
was, therefore, and is
and forever will be written in our flesh
in gray folds of
memory’s
flesh. En
arche en ho logos:
[franz wright - god's silence]
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christian life
i was recently chatting with a friend at his house.
i told him about one of my students. he was given an assignment to create a powerpoint presentation on his own life, and one of the slides he created was entitled “future goals.” one of his goals was, “not go to jail.” i asked him about [...]
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