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Jeremy Mann
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the trailer for the most anticipated movie of 2011: Terrance Malick’s fifth film, The Tree of LIfe, is tentatively scheduled for release at the end of May (don’t hold your breath, it has […]
Jeremy MannBible
What are theologians for? What are they supposed to do? If the theologians of the world went on a retreat together and made a list of objectives for 2011, what would be on it? I’m not sure how to answer […]
Jeremy MannFormation
Dorothy Sayers’ presentation of work in her essay Why Work? is a helpful corrective for Christians who’ve lost sight of its theological purposes. Sustained conflict against the culture’s
Jeremy Mann
So, obviously no man is an island—he needs a woman. Together they make a big island, which is why everyone honeymoons in Hawaii… My wife and I are in our mid-twenties, which means every spring our mailbox is full of […]
Jeremy MannTheology and PracticeFormation
God does not need us. He does not depend on our praise, or our holiness, or our service. These gifts do not gain him anything. They are not his source
Jeremy MannFilm Reviews/Hollywood
The Oscar nominations came out Tuesday morning. Pixar’s Up already won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. It shouldn’t have. The movie is on par with Pixar’
Jeremy MannembodimentAnthropology
Today as I set-up shop in a line at the Los Angeles DMV I happened to read an incisive essay published in Vogue forty years ago. The article was written by Susan Sontag, and my profit from it proves that […]
Jeremy MannEducation
I recently had the chance to read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye for my Teach For America credentialing program at Loyola Marymount University. Reading the book in that setting prompted notice of the near absence of school in the novel. […]
Jeremy MannBooks
This summer I interned at the field office of Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti. I spent the days taking calls from constituents, working to build support for a
Jeremy Mann
From a book that has helped me think more clearly about the moral implications of what I buy at the grocery store: You want the best ‘organic test’? Go to any farm unannounced and see what is on the bookshelf […]
Jeremy MannEducation
I like to invent games, the more variables the better: multiple creators, absurd rules, elaborate procedures, built-in randomizers. One could accuse me of getting more excited about the invention
Jeremy MannEducation
I just read an expansive article by David Tyack, professor emeritus at Stanford in the history of education. In the article Tyack considers at length the different populations that have