This American Life’s recent Christmas episode, about gifts, told stories of mostly bad news: two of the three segments were about characters realizing that the thing they most wanted was bankrupt of what they actually needed. They were about expectations and disappointments, about human longing and our tendency to put our faith in the wrong things. The first segment, however–the […]
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Reflections on a Notched Gun from Selma
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Another Week Ends: Highly Regimented Women, Every Day Carry, Olympic Suicide, Jungian Inflation, the Business of the Body, and the Same Clouds Keep Passing By
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We All Have a Hunger
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Another Week Ends: Processing Pope Francis, Kelly On My Mind, Writhing Babies, and Resurrection on a Soap Opera
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Freedom/Slavery according to Johnny Cash
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Ian: This is great, my anonymous friend— thank you so much for this deep re...
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Matt: Reading Erasmus fells less Seculocity to me and more like a descriptio...
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CJ: I keep seeing articles online about how boring xmas music is, and how ...
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CJ: beautifully written, Ian. & that Lear quote…so powerful....
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CJ: Some heavy hitters this week! Particularly for me, the one about morni...