Matt Croasmun

Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program, Yale Center for Faith & Culture; Faith Initiative Director, Grace Farms Foundation

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

What a beautiful piece by @TKrattenmaker. Wise, thoughtful, and beautifully written. What an honor to have a reader—and a friend—like Tom!
https://t.co/cBjrU1vsDw

[Yale Center for Faith & Culture @YaleCFC]

In just a few hours this morning, #LifeWorthLiving has climbed to the number #1 slot on Amazon Books and SOLD OUT. We're being told that another 3,000 copies are being printed tonight, but if you can't wait, visit another book retailer!

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

Launch is just one week away! I can't wait to share this book with the world! https://t.co/GvsbfY4q07

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

Look what arrived yesterday! Coming March 28! https://t.co/GvsbfY4q07

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

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So excited that this is coming soon: Preorder your copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by January 27 @BNBuzz and get 25% off! (Use promo code PREORDER25)

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

It's here! @RJMLinz posing with our new book, coming in March.

[Miroslav Volf @MiroslavVolf]

Advance uncorrected proofs of our newest book, coming out in March, held by one (@RJMLinz) of my two (@mattcroasmun) really superb co-authors.

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

Grateful to @EvanSubRosa for the conversation on the @YaleCFC podcast. Excited to see people get their hands on @MiroslavVolf and my new book!

[Miroslav Volf @MiroslavVolf]

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[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

Listening to this conversation from 2016 makes me remember just how much Tyler Roberts’s vision of the humanities shaped my own. Grateful to him to this day. Mourning his loss again today. https://t.co/j99iot784A

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

But I have to say, I'm so terrible with names that my favorite is: “Kind of absent-minded. My name’s Simon, and he’s called me ‘Peter’ for the entire semester.”

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

https://t.co/3FYm3xl8qE
“He’s nice enough, I guess, but he doesn’t vet his TAs: they all provide completely different, conflicting lecture notes. (TIP: Try to get in Luke’s section.)”

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

That image of climbing a ladder leaning against the wrong wall? The source (as far as I can tell) is not Merton, not Covey, but Anne Adalisa Puddicombe, from her novel, Garthowen (1900). I love her stinger: "That would be a poor success." Indeed. #hepeating

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

@kevinwhector Because it's nigh on impossible to express genuine sentiment in the abstract? Because genuine sentiment is always located in history, geography, and the body in ways that a greeting card by definition cannot be?

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

@SaraRonis I did. But today I also saw that Yale had online access to the whole book today from CUP so it seems to be rolling out. Official pub date is tomorrow.

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

"How good is a 'mansion of freedom' if it is located in a polluted or toxic neighborhood, and is inhabited and surrounded by people who are sick, anxious, desperate, or bored?" Good questions from @NWirzba Looking forward to tomorrow's conversation! https://t.co/XZlIqFUCYX

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

@bencblackwell @womeninchurch @MiroslavVolf Happy to share recent syllabuses. Let’s connect!

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

@MichaelPeppard Name cards for seminar. To help all of us learn one another’s names.

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

@allenlyeh Thanks, Allen, for sharing this. It was moving to see how many mentioned Prof. Kwame Bediako in their remembrances. I was most influenced by Walls through Bediako. On our last morning in Akropong in 2006, Hannah and I shared breakfast with Prof. Walls. An extraordinary man.

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

I was grateful to see this provocation about the distinction between conviction and condemnation from "Let Me Ask You a Question" highlighted in @UpperRoom's "New Every Morning." https://t.co/KkE8UygkCv

[Matt Croasmun @mattcroasmun]

I've been wrestling a lot recently with the extent to which it's right or helpful to imagine the self as quite this robust and nearly sovereign, but, I have to admit it, Didion absolutely nails a particularly potent (and destructive?) strand of my own psychology.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

A day for Didion: https://t.co/XiPzaNpBRj