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I'm Sarah, a hungry pilgrim of a reader who always thought I'd study literature and stumbled instead into two theology degrees at Oxford, almost by accident. But I never strayed far from my novels. I quickly discovered that story almost always helped me to a deeper understand of doctrine.
Wendell Berry helped me to grasp the Incarnation.
Tolkien was... See more
Wendell Berry helped me to grasp the Incarnation.
Tolkien was... See more
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inspiration for my community
To read slowly, attentively, without agenda or distraction is to resist. Not with noise or spectacle, but with the quiet, deliberate force of contemplation. In an economy built on speed and stimulus, deep reading becomes an act of principled refusal. It defies the algorithm’s logic of efficiency, the newsfeed’s velocity, the platform’s hunger for... See more
Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
Probing a text can be enjoyable but also tiring, even borderline painful. That’s good. Exhausting our mental faculties, such as through deep reading or effortful writing, is what makes them more potent. Physical exercise works the same way. AI, by contrast, promises knowledge without effort, just as many people see in GLP-1 drugs the possibility of
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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As people contort themselves to please the algorithm for short-term payouts, there’s even more of the less legible, less liquid, but ultimately more important long-term value up for grabs for you if you continue to just be yourself and talk about whatever lights your fire, algorithm be damned.
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Catechized for Beatitude: Theology as Initiation and Apprenticeship
Explores the purpose of catechesis as initiation and apprenticeship in the divine mysteries, emphasizing the beatific vision as the ultimate goal of Christian education and spiritual formation.
mcusercontent.comWe catechize because we must. For catechesis is both a very biblical idea and a faithful practice... See more
of the church through the ages. Where wise catechesis has flourished, the church has flourished. Where it has been neglected, the church has floundered. We catechize in obedience to the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ and in imitation of the