Casey Spinks

Gulf Coast Kierkegaardian | Postdoc @UTAustin | PhD @Baylor | MA, BA @LSU | Contributing Editor @FrontPorchRepub

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It's publishing week for my first book, 'Kierkegaard's Ontology.' If you'd be so kind, please ask your library to order a copy. If you'd be even kinder, consider buying or reviewing a copy:

https://t.co/A9db1RoECL

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@akoustov Quit threatening us with a good time!

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George Hunsinger once called Robert Jenson a “left-wing neo-conservative”, which he meant as a compliment. I’ve always found that a funny and intriguing way to describe Jenson’s theology and politics, for some reason.

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What are some political speeches that distill the economic globalism vs. protectionism debate of the late-20th century? I can't assign Fukuyama vs. Huntington in one class period, but I'm hoping to get the gist.

Buchanan, HW Bush & Clinton? Jesse Jackson? Open to variety.

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@simoncunningham Congratulations!

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Decatur, Texas Post Office
Texas Plains - Ray Strong (1939)
Photo by Leslie Thompson

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@avrilbradley23 Wait what?!! I see him at conferences from time to time. Small world!

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“One single note of realism runs through Jefferson’s idyllic picture of American innocency. That consists in his preference for an agricultural over an urban society.”

—Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History

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Since Steinbeck’s name is coming up here lately, I recommend ‘To a God Unknown’—one of his quieter novels, but one of my favorites.

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@bsharbaugh @second_sailing Aghh!!!

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It’s happening!

[James @exhaustdata]

Batten down the hatches

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Robert Frost was right: Miami University is indeed one of the most beautiful campuses I’ve seen. And it doesn’t even have one 200 year-old live oak to help.

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I can only pray the local post has a New Deal mural too!

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Beautiful murals at the Oxford public library

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Eastwood is a beloved icon. But I hope one day many will look back and learn that he’s one of the great American artists.

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CLINT EASTWOOD is 96 today.

His son, Kyle, says the legendary actor and director has “retired” from filmmaking

https://t.co/4pOxzGXyvR

[Reel Updates @worldofreel]

CLINT EASTWOOD is 96 today.

His son, Kyle, says the legendary actor and director has “retired” from filmmaking

https://t.co/4pOxzGXyvR

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Further, Hobson suggested that, since those two had found common ground, evangelical theology is the odd man out and should go its separate way.

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Thesis: most work in non-competitive transcendence and revival in “classical theism” is effectively an effort to reconcile process theology and its politics with historic doctrine.

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If I remember right, it was Theo Hobson who admitted that theological liberalism and Anglo-Catholicism had reconciled in ways unforeseen in the mid-20th c. I think a great deal of work in non-competitive transcendence and neo-classical theism is part of that.

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Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."

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@NickAllmaier Joshua Mitchell?