The Cresset

A Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs.
Published by Valparaiso University.

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“All walls are confrontational in some way; Walking Wall most certainly was when it blocked Rockhill Road. But Goldsworthy’s work is more about connection than division. Joel Kurz reflects on @goldsworthy_art's "Walking Wall" at the @nelson_atkins: https://t.co/vQodDJwrhD

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The #InternationalBooker2020 shortlist was announced yesterday. Here's Christine Hedlin's take on #BookerPrize2019 winner Margaret Atwood's #TheTestaments: https://t.co/zvh30uKWm8 @vuenglishdept

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"The thing about reading Confessions, at least for me, is that it confronts me with myself. It shatters my pious pretensions and the image I work hard to maintain that basically I’m okay." https://t.co/4Hvv6qgaTF

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"When societal structures crumble, how do we survive? What is revealed about us and those around us when our culture’s restraints are stripped away?" L. Lamar Nisly, on the novels WHEN THE ENGLISH FALL and THE ROAD: https://t.co/qABXK5LyZJ
@BelovedSpear @AlgonquinBooks

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Like the playlist, @joshlanghoff!

[Meg Eden Kuyatt @ConfusedNarwhal]

@CressetJournal Thank you for publishing this raw little poem of mine.

https://t.co/rDSZd5qnXZ

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Our new issue has great writing from Susan Holman, Joel Kurz, Christine Hedlin, Lamar Nisly, Sam Ochstein, Josh Langhoff, Julie Peller, JoAnne Lehman, Samuel Graber, Joshua Gage, Aaron Morrison, Christopher Howell, Todd Copeland, Aaron Brown, & Meg Eden: https://t.co/Si9nmoix9W

[Lisa Deam, PhD @LisaKDeam]

Really timely piece via @atrevorsutton, in the @CressetJournal, on the history of online & VR churches.

Such interesting questions: Can an online church have meaningful community? Which Christian practices should or should not be done via the internet?

https://t.co/Nx405CQkes

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Why keep reading/writing/pursuing wisdom and the arts during these calamitous days? From the archives, Cara Strickland's review of Irina Dumitrescu's "Rumba Under Fire" reminds us: https://t.co/TXjw5H6UaM

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[Bob Elder @southernphd]

And here's my review of The Good Lord Bird in @CressetJournal a few years ago.

https://t.co/nU8jfKN32n

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Church leaders who are figuring out how to practice #socialdistancing in their congregations should check out @atrevorsutton's piece about online and virtual churches: https://t.co/08K0LKNyJL
#quarantinereading

[Mischa Willett @MischaWillett]

I'd like to take a moment to thank some people, begging your indulgence 🙏 especially the editors who believed in these poems before they formed a mighty host and became a book: @StKathReview, @ChristianCent, @JJournalNYC, @CressetJournal, @riograndereview, & @ReliefJournal

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Congrats on the new book, @PoemsforPeople!

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This one is in the new book, available 3/8/20 📅 from @mockingbirdmin.
Thanks, @CressetJournal! The issue looks fab 🕺

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“One can be forgiven then, or I/ can, which is to say, you will,/ if everything recently looks to me…” Mischa Willett, “Past Participle” https://t.co/SlRlieAr1r @PoemsforPeople

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Yes! (This is good advice not just for a break fom the debate, but for other items in the news cycle, too)

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“Give me this mountain because I have walked up and /Down it my entire life and still lose my way. Give me/ The snow moon of February and maybe I won’t lose it/ In the gray clouds…” Tim Gavin, “Love Poem XLIV: Blaze” https://t.co/i1icNTNsq7 @tgavin_tim

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“I was a child then, but not young enough /to remember angels./ The light of it opened and closed/ like folds in smith’s bellows—/ I thought bellow-wing and almost laughed...” Devon Miller-Duggan, “Mary Explains Annunciation” https://t.co/8Sqc5UE8e1 @Rossakatum

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"The cow’s heart Miss Hutchings displayed looked nothing like the ones that had been suggested on Valentine's Day..." From the archives, many thoughts from Gary Fincke about hearts of all sorts: https://t.co/2SNnUAEVUF #ValentinesDay

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This is the scene outside our office today. Perfect weather to settle in with some good reading!

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Tim Grennan of @CNU_Med reviews “Science and Christian Ethics” by Paul Scherz of @CUATheology: https://t.co/zsftLq1qs2 @CambridgeCore