Clift Ward

Associate Professor of History and Theology @CovenantCollege | Ph.D. @durham_uni | Quaerite faciem eius semper

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"Seek after peace, and pursue it."

—St. Benedict of Nursia, RB prol. 17

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@VinnysCorner1 Ryne Sandberg

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.

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#goals

[Oliver ೫ @oliverhamrin]

Just learned about the beautiful personal library of a German mining engineer called Bruno Schröder.

His entire house was covered in custom shelves he built himself, housing his life’s work – a 70,000 book collection.

Bruno died in 2022 at 88, while in the midst of digitally cataloguing his massive collection. Sadly, he had no relatives and the house, including the books, was handed to an estate manager and put up for sale. That’s when his story and these photos surfaced.

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Friends... The CFP for the #AARSBL meetings in Denver will close tomorrow evening at midnight.

Not too late to submit your proposal for the Development in Early Christian Theology section. We'd love to see your interactions with early Christian use of subtle scriptural figures!

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Prayer is the seed of gentleness and the absence of anger.

—Abba Nilus (2)

(*Sayings of the Desert Fathers*, trans. B. Ward)

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Happy Bird on the Egg day to all who celebrate!

#Thanksgiving
#BigGreenEgg

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“He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.”

—St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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@lukestamps Prayers for your student's family and friends, and for all at Anderson as you navigate this!

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Rievaulx Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey in Rievaulx, situated near Helmsley in the North York Moors. It was one of the great abbeys in England until it was seized under Henry VIII in 1538 during the dissolution of the monasteries.

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Show us how to walk this day in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.

Lord, come to our aid.

#Lauds

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@robbiegriggs Congratulations! Such good news for you both!

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@GrantMacaskill Congratulations! What great news!

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@sccarlson Wish I could be there! Would love to hear this.

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"Becoming God's friend is the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This, as I have said, is the perfection of life."

—Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses, II.320

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@JonathanMerritt Congrats!

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Surrexit Christus!

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The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.

—St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Matthew R. Crawford @mattrcrawford]

Coming this July. https://t.co/mll2HIFZm4

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Welcome to the Mountain!!