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History, sociology, anthropology, civics, politics -- how people, century after century, have learned to live with each other.

Another Transfiguration

November 5, 2020

As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Reading the Word|| Word in the World|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Bible, Race, COVID-19, Pandemic, Transfiguration, BlackLivesMatter
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Revising the Story of the First Thanksgiving

November 26, 2015

how can we receive the gifts history offers and use them to practice moral reflection, rather than judgement? Here’s the story we read as part of our celebration of an American Thanksgiving with church family and strangers from other shores.

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Tagged With: History, Holidays, Thanksgiving
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The First Thanksgiving: Eight Lessons for Learning from History

November 14, 2013

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The First Thanksgiving

Putting together a coherent story from evidence is hard work. No wonder we reach for story first and evidence after, unless the discipline of History can teach us better habits!

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Tagged With: History, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Evidence
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A Thanksgiving Book Club

November 10, 2013

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series The First Thanksgiving

An invitation to read with me through The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God & Learning from History .

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Tagged With: History, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Wheaton College
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Hope

Why Hope Isn’t Always a Good Thing

January 22, 2013

Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s full of requirements.

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Tagged With: Hope, Politics, Virtue
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Creation Groans

January 1, 2013

Turning & turning – and do we now see /
Mere anarchy at last upon the world?

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Reading the Word|| Visions & Ventures|| Literature|| Word in Season
Tagged With: Holidays, New Year's Day, Poetry
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2012 Veterans Day Poster

Veterans Never Stop Serving

November 11, 2012

Even after our veterans take off the uniform, they never stop serving. Many apply the skills and experience they developed on the battlefield to a life of service here at home. They take on roles in their communities as doctors and police officers, engineers and entrepreneurs, mothers and fathers.

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Tagged With: Democracy, Holidays, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Veteran's Day
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Cover of Plato's "Republic"

Politics After the Apocalypse

November 11, 2012

If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Politics
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Remebering Labor, Entering Rest

September 7, 2009

To truly make this a holiday, to truly rest in praise of the goodness, truth, & beauty of Labor Day, requires contemplation.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| History|| Sociology
Tagged With: Visual Arts, Canada, Economics, History, Holidays, Mind & Society, Science & Technology, Slavery, Work
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Mind & Society|| History|| Connected Worlds|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| The Reading Life|| The History & Future of Books|| Literacy|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Tagged With: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barack Obama, Camelot, Change, Democracy, John McCain, King Arthur, Politics, Sacrifice
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