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How to Inhabit Time
How to Inhabit Time by James K A Smith is a wonderful surprise. His voice in this book is different from his other works. It comes out of brokenness. These are lessons learned in the hardest parts of his life and this voice is quite refreshing. One aspect of time I’m reading about now is how to live in the…
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Our love affair with nostalgia
“Nostalgia is rarely antiquarian, a mere interest in history qua history. It is more commonly a sentimental pining for “the way it was.” Such nostalgia is always a form of arrested development. For example, there are sorts of nostalgia that are not-so-subtle longings for adolescence and thus resent adulthood. Many forms of collective nostalgia demonize the present while luxuriating in…
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