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What a thrill to host Father Maximos Constas in our Virgin Mary class today to discuss his translation of the Life of the Virgin! If you don’t know his work, I’d start with his book The Art of Seeing. uaustin.org/people/nichola…

"The truth is I'm going to be on my deathbed and the five years I spent as a youth minister are going to be the most important things I ever did." -David Zahl themockingcast.fireside.fm/284

“What honour can unto that Queen be done/ Who had your God for father, spouse, and son?” -John Donne “How could it be possible for such a song to praise her worthily… one who alone is daughter, mother, and bride of the One who exists -John Geometres (Life of the Virgin, p. 3)

“Christ has reconciled me to the nothingness that nearly destroyed me.” Matthew J. Milliner on a reckoning at Chaco Canyon. bit.ly/3L0SDZl

The October Material Mysticism at Comment is a descent through the maw of despair into a hell of mercy. comment.org/salvation-by-d…

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Cheering thoughts for the evening crowd: "It was as indifferent to comforting words ('don’t think so much, darling') or the classification of psychologists (parasomnia) as a Category 5 hurricane is indifferent to the tattered sail of a schooner." comment.org/salvation-by-d…

"The drugs did not generate the void any more than a dog whistle generates an attacking rottweiler." comment.org/salvation-by-d…

This gives a bit of hope for distinctively Christian higher ed in the next generation, which overall looks grotesquely bleak for most colleges and universities.

Very concerning development here:

"In other words, Indigenous people did not need to wait for Columbus to have something to resist." comment.org/salvation-by-d…

Syrian mystic Jacob of Serug (c. 452-521):

I love that these are next to each other in our library (so that future minds can be rescued from amusingly reductive approaches to mind).

Sharing my photo of the most interesting shoe repair window I've seen (in Lake Zurich) to promote my cemetery talk at the library there tonight. Please come!!

Well, at least the crises in the church today have precedent.

John of Apamea (a.k.a. John the Solitary, 5th c. Syriac mystic) on 💰& 🙌

G.K. Chesterton's first reaction to neon advertising on Broadway: "What a magnificent spectacle for a man who cannot read."