Jonathan McGregor

Teach @SMU. PhD @WUSTL_English. Book @lsupress: Poetry ed @WLAJournal. Making music @supermarine_rec. Stage IV mCRC. he/him.

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

This is Jonathan's wife posting, Jonathan died on February 13th, 2024. I will post his obituary here and leave it up for a while then delete his Twitter account.

https://t.co/o6MEXIciem

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I found it a photo of our main bathroom door in the old house, as designed & painted by the kids... per twitter discussions about how T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" gets stuck in your head and scribbled all over the walls of one's life.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

what we can do is make people more free: widen their vision, deepen their powers of thought, awaken them to the scope of their own freedom. they become capable of greater good and greater evil. but this, i think, is still better. it's better for a human being to think than serve

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

this also gets lost in too many discussions about education and "great books." there is no way to teach honestly and at the same time to be certain of the result. education doesn't produce goodness and never did. our curricula will not make students better or worse

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

@matt_wickman Fear and Trembling

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

@MatthewSitman Pouring one out for you, bro

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

@MCMuellerPhD @SMU Thank you, Mary Catherine!

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

Big thanks to @Jessica_Mesman for her editorial guidance!

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

My latest in Christian Century: what we can learn from Vida Scudder about what it means for rich Christians to pray the Magnificat.

[theChristianCentury @ChristianCent]

“Ancient cries of the dispossessed such as Mary’s prayer sound awkward coming from a congregation whose parking lot is filled with BMWs.”

– @j_d_mcgregor, in his essay on 20th-century radical Vida Dutton Scudder

https://t.co/sOd3MSX0B3

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

@gregorykhillis So sorry to read this. Sending love and solidarity.

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

The only way to be.

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

I unironically prefer the canned cranberry sauce

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

@drphillips2001 So sorry.

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

@graceful_hazel This is literary history, so maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but very good: The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books, 2) https://t.co/lqkppYPv9K

[Julián Castro @JulianCastro]

Agree. Joe Biden and Congressional leaders have an opportunity to demonstrate moral clarity in this moment. They should do so. The slaughter of Israelis on October 7 was wrong, and the slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza with disproportionate force is wrong. Need a ceasefire.

[Justin Sherin @wychstreet]

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on “protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” on the ongoing Gaza crisis

FOR: 120
AGAINST: 14
ABSTAIN: 45

LIVE COVERAGE
https://t.co/MOnKoTdNsb

[Sacred Writes @Sacred_Writes]

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[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

Here's the share of each state that was atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular in 2008 and 2022.

In 2008, there were high concentrations of nones on the West Coast and the Northeast.

By 2022, the nones had risen above 35% in almost every state in the union.

[R.L. Stollar @RLStollar]

When you view children as sinful or evil, you are more likely to misinterpret developmentally appropriate behavior as sinful or evil—and thus more likely to punish them for just being children.

https://t.co/2elBlVx5UV