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A magazine of public theology. Pull up a chair to our long and unruly banquet table.

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“When we see institutions with the lens of affection, we can see them as flickering signals of a life to come.”

Craig Mattson on living with institutional mortality.
https://t.co/WKnwjYjyM2

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“What Iris and the people around her have, as Iris notes, is a conviction of something not seen: that suffering and redemption are bound up together.”

Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb reviews Nonesuch, Francis Spufford’s novel of Iris Susan Hawkins.
https://t.co/xFdyEpnhJi

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“I was most struck by how much Wendell loved to tell stories and how much we laughed. His laugh—filled with delight and mischief—was one of the most salient gifts of our visit.”

Michael Lamb on Wendell Berry.
https://t.co/Va6F11wUF7

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“Freedom detached from solidarity and forms of thick association breeds not just loneliness but deaths of despair, not just distrust but a society devouring itself.”

Luke Bretherton on agency, institutions, and our shared humanity.
https://t.co/YVl5ptMS7H

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“We cannot seem to completely condition ourselves to feel nothing when we fail to act as we ought.”

Doug Sikkema on conscience in a culture of consumption.
https://t.co/ybimW4YHLu

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“A substantive experience with art leaves behind a residue, leading us to ask: What was that presence, that sense of something uncontrollable? Indeed, art awakens fleeting moments in which the world feels responsive rather than mute.”
https://t.co/PpzzIb7Fl9

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“AA is extended training in acquiring a taste for reality.”

Kent Dunnington on the rituals of recovery.
https://t.co/4Gy8xzlSxF

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

Read our original @commentmag essay here: https://t.co/NKJKi9jsPn

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

A thoughtful response to our @commentmag essay on "The Case for Hell."

Our argument isn't that everyone needs to believe in hell but rather that the decline of hell in our faith traditions has fueled the "secularization of hell."

https://t.co/Q1jzNRE4V1

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“I’m curious about how love seems to emerge from our hurt and transfigures it, opening it up to something larger, dousing it in some mysterious element so that radiance simmers off of it like steam.”

Abigail Dees on caring for her dying mother.
https://t.co/e7bXgStn6r

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“The Anglican altar is now a Jacuzzi; the Orthodox frescoes have become the sleek walls of a chef-grade kitchen.”

Matthew J. Milliner on Lev Gillet and Christian unity.
https://t.co/FRCDWgCPhd

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“Contributing to society and to the poorest among us is an enactment of a life beyond ownership, and it is participation in a life bigger than what is mine.”

Terence Sweeney reviews Ian Marcus Corbin on belonging in the modern world.
https://t.co/N5rWGiiq74

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“The war did not bring a new reality into it; it merely laid bare the old one that had been hiding behind the surface.”

Anastasia Korbet on ruined homes in wartime Ukraine.
https://t.co/pUPr2R9Ns6

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“Ninety-nine percent of creation is preparation. One percent is the final stroke everybody sees.”

David Chang, Erin Shaw, and Tiffany Thompson on letting go in the act of making.
https://t.co/zNm5vGt7Oo

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“Everyone knows that ecumenical figures that blur lines are usually overshadowed by aggressive voices, ones that embody presumably purer, uncompromising stances that ‘own’ their Christian enemies and thereby stir the unyielding young.”
https://t.co/FRCDWgCPhd

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“It is those who feel no pressure to write about Berry, but only to live well in the time and place they are given, who provide the surest measure of Berry’s influence.”

Doug Sikkema on Wendell Berry’s readers.
https://t.co/MeU1LUAsK9

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“The way out of modernity’s absurdist escape room is not the re-entrenchment of control through endless self-mastery and technological innovation but the renunciation of control in favour of relationship.”
https://t.co/M6nGksvd94

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“We are being morally formed by services and habits that aren’t really morally formative. We are embedded in practices that systematically disembed us.”

Antón Barba-Kay on recovering moral formation in the digital age.
https://t.co/fjCTp0oCOz

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“Prior to evangelism, judgment, embrace, or even reconciliation is the unshakable belief in the image of God and the superabundant love of God for oneself and for the other.”

Aryana Petrosky on Christian encounter across deep differences.
https://t.co/2yFRq0Aq7T

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“Learn to listen to the voice within and develop the resource that no one will ever be able to control, not even you.”

David Chang, Erin Shaw, and Tiffany Thompson on creativity and control.
https://t.co/zNm5vGt7Oo