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We all struggle with rest. The paradox of modernity, according to theologian Colin Gunton, is that "a world dedicated to the pursuit of leisure and of machines that save
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A Meditation on Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! Shortly after the death of Nebraska pioneer John Bergson, his children––Alexandra, Lou, Oscar, and Emil––go on a “pleasure excursion” to buy a hammock from Crazy Ivar, who obtained the name from his hermetic […]
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Here I am again at the writer's desk with a tall glass of lemonade, ready to analyze two passages that invoke "the Genius" of the land
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Terry Teachout, the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, wrote a fascinating article that was buried in the weekend edition of the June 26th newspaper, "Too Complicated for
Christopher BensonLiterature
In my first post on O Pioneers! I mistakenly drew a historical contrast between the modern project of "marking on the land" and a postmodern project of "
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Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith Edited by Francis S. Collins HarperOne, 2010 352 pp., $19.99 What kind of flowers does Francis S. Collins—one of the world’
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I contend that projective disgust plays no proper role in arguing for legal regulation, because of the emotion's normative irrationality and its connection to stigma and hierarchy. ––Martha
Christopher Benson
Mr. Anderson got the last laugh as he departed the country, exposing my two unforgivable sins: a sympathy with postmodernism and an education at Wheaton College. Regarding the first sin, I confess to being a shameless “pomo” and insist that […]
