Sam Whittaker

Husband and dad, Teaching Pastor, PhD candidate at MBTS focused on imaginative apologetics and the meaning crisis. I also tweet about trail running (sorry).

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Inside of me there are two penguins...

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@dylanbo @hardrock100 Return of the Mack

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@BMcGrewvy Oh man this reframing makes the entire debate 10x more watchable.

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@travisjmont @CodyEdds If he wasn't interested before, I imagine he certainly is now 😂

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@travisjmont @MBTS So genuinely inspiring! Congratulations, Jesse.

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@travisjmont @CodyEdds I have been following Cody's what-if's with much interest! He might just turn up in one of your classes before too long...

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@joeyhiles1 They have to "return with the treasure." It is an excellent and essential part of the story!

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@malcolmguite's Galahad and the Grail has revealed how desperately hungry we are for stories that are beautiful without a trace of modern irony, cynicism or detachment. More!

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It was clearly @richardrohlin interacting with one of your posts (probably not, but it was the weirdest "very specific interests" crossover event on my own timeline).

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I know that I am incredibly late to the game in finally starting @malcolmguite's Galahad and the Grail (on audio), but it is already indescribable. I cried listening to the prelude! Sheer aesthetic power.

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@suzania All kids with cheap phones will now CONQUER the known WORLD. And you're still skeptical of AI?!

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@iRunFar Croissant Bouillard, according to my 3 year old. Congratulations, Vincent!

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@JasonFitz1 I'm super safe from this because "don't run fast" comes naturally to me.

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Trying to work on my dissertation but Western States coverage is making it verrrrry hard to stay focused. @wser

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@CodyEdds The opening sentence of my diss 🙌🏼

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@BrantleyVosler In Till We Have Faces, Lewis has Orual supported by the two poles of materialism (The Fox) and superstition (Bardia). Two "equal and opposite errors" to make in relating to reality, like the materialist and magician Lewis describes in the intro to Screwtape.

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@BrantleyVosler I agree! In my limited experience it seems like deep interest in spiritual realm stuff is unhelpful for folks the majority of the time. Maybe it's medicine (for materialists), not food?

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I teach college and here's the thing:

Writing is a materialized form of thinking. It is not just a way to record thoughts. It is a concrete route to understanding.

If one uses a machine to write, they cease thinking. They abandon a route to understanding. Not good!

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Judge Holden when he first sees the Kid in Chapter I of BLOOD MERIDIAN:

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The planning stage of a chapter/paper/sermon/etc. is almost painfully overwhelming because of the great variety of ways that a given set of ideas can be ordered and presented. So many different-but-not-better-or-worse options! So many unrealized alternate-reality versions!