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I cannot resist musing about the avaunts in the concents of Stephenson’s Anathem who just might occasionally suffer from the acedia Kathleen Norris exposes in her new book Acedia & me:  a marriage, monks, and a writer’s life. Can you see, with me, the auts (avaunts) poking their heads out their doors and windows to [...]

Klassen and Zimmermann have given me much to think about in their book The Passionate Intellect:  Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education. One chapter subheading alone rings the bell of reflection during my day:  “Thinking is not optional:  It is part of your Christian identity.” It is not just that our university is [...]