I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:
2006 – 2011 (link coming soon!)- did not have a blog!
2012 – 2013 (link coming soon!)2014 – 2019
topic: reading notes
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2020
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Jan
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12
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Tell Me Your Priors! — LIBRARY
A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.
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26
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Fall-Centered Theological Anthropologies — LIBRARY
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Problematic — LIBRARY
You keep using that word. I’m not sure you know what you think it means.
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Mar
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Jul
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An anti-culture — LIBRARY
What theology must be if it is to be healthy and fruitful as a field.
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Aug
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04
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21:46❈ — NOTES
Started reading Mary Midgley’s Evolution as a Religion for the September episodes of Winning Slowly. This is going to be quite the ride.
(Let’s just say that her grasp on the problems of evolution-as-religion is better than her grasp on the nature of religion itself.)
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13
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Polemic is Hard — LIBRARY
One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.
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Good theology demands good theologians — LIBRARY
How spiritual formation is not mere interiority or “authenticity” but death-and-resurrection at the hand of the living God.
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Sep
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19
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A Chalcedonian conceptual grammar for love and justice — LIBRARY
What if we thought of “love” and “justice” like the hypostatic union?
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19:53❈ — NOTES
Finally finished the Ruby chapter in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks and started into the chapter on Io… and am reminded why Io delighted me so much from the first time I encountered it half a decade ago. It’s just so incredibly elegant!
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28
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Finding Holy in the Suburbs — LIBRARY
A solid popular-level book — which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.
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Oct
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25
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21:30❈ — NOTES
Just finished reading Zeynep Tüfeçki’s utterly masterful Twitter and Tear Gas. The book is astonishing. It gave me better frames for thinking about a great many things I’ve been thinking about for a long time now, and it is a masterful work of academic scholarship presented in a way that just about anyone could read.
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26
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20:30❈ — NOTES
I started reading Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore tonight and even a chapter in, I am just delighted. (I feel obliged to ask: is Mr. Penumbra a secret alias for Mr. Rogers?)
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31
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12:20❈ — NOTES
Okay, Prolog is cool. (Still reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, though it’s taking a few more weeks than that.)
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12:45❈ — NOTES
I have a sneaking suspicion that many things I used ad hoc and fairly complicated decision tables (sometimes in Excel!) for in the past, I will now at least sometimes use Prolog to solve instead.
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Nov
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28
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11:46❈ — NOTES
Robin Sloan has a great and glorious talent, and it is this: to take things we have learned to treat as mundane, and infuse them with enough mystery-or-magic-or-both that we feel the wonder of them again. It is genuinely marvelous.
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Dec
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2021
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Jan
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04
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A path away from Kant? — LIBRARY
Koyzis’ provocative thesis on authority and liberty.
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