Cosmopolitanism vs. Displacement: Running From Where We Came From
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Cosmopolitanism vs. Displacement: Running From Where We Came From
Or do such Sisyphean philosophies—that “the road is life”—turn out to be bourgeois luxuries indulged by those safe enough to pretend this is all there is? Does the hunger and hope of the migrant show us something more fundamentally human? Maybe our craving for rest, refuge, arrival, home is a hunger that can’t be edited—the heart an obstinate palim
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This tension isn’t
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James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Each time I cross a border, I feel the push and pull in my body, a cacophony of competing desires. And always there are choices to make: what to assimilate, what to reject. Is it true that we are always, as migrants, and the children of migrants, attempting to choose what my parents call "the best of both worlds"? Or is it possible to tra
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