@McCormickProf Augustine, Luther, Bob Dylan: You gotta serve somebody
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Charles Mathewes
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Charles Mathewes
@CTMathewes
Religion & Ethics @ UofVirginia. Seven days, not one in seven. Each thing is what it is, not another thing. Aspiring to be more of a question than a comment.
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The longer I live, the clearer it becomes to me that people will have a religion, or something that plays the role in their lives played by religion in the lives of people of faith. The only question is what religion (or pseudo-religion) they will have, and whether it will be a good one or a bad one--one that upholds human dignity and teaches genuine virtue, or one that does not.
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Rude... but good. I'm at a much better place now :)
Smaug Enjoyer@golgfrombism
@akoustov Haha I know someone who interviewed you that thought you sucked so bad you would never get a job in his department
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This National Review article runs through a litany of errors in Jill Lepore's Pultizer-winning history of the Constitution. Every history has its goofs (believe me, I know!). But do they matter?
"Every lion has fleas. The question is, is there a lion under all the fleas?"
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Circumambulating Waymos
Brooks Otterlake@i_zzzzzz
Oh so it’s wrong for cars to invent religion??
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@amywelborn2 In the end, there's no lock on the jail cell door--they could walk out. But they're their own prison. Very Dantean, imho!
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Lot of hate for this, but my take has always been - from the minute it ended - that it was basically "No Exit."
That is, these selfish people were being judged for their self-absorption and were being condemned to live with the consequences...forever.
"Haven't we had this conversation before?"
I always thought it was brilliant and the most fitting end to the "show about nothing"
RetroNewsNow@RetroNewsNow
📺The series finale of 'Seinfeld' aired 28 years ago, May 14, 1998, on NBC
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@CTMathewes that's awesome. if i were a college president, i would of course immediately resign, but before that, i would try to get lászló krasznahorkai to deliver the commencement address!
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I still remember my graduation speaker, Georgetown University 1991. It was John Guare, playwright & author of "House of Blue Leaves" and "Six Degrees of Separation," I only knew him because my friends had performed House of Blue Leaves in the drama club. He was great. Loved him.
du côté de chez rob@ragandboneshop
i believe my commencement speaker was some variety of senior VP at texas instruments. i am not sure if i knew his name even while he was speaking lol
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What is the first film you think of when you see TIM ROTH?
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I had a great conversation with Mark Oppenheimer on the ARC podcast, mainly talking about my experience on the religious right eons ago, and how that informs the way I look at politics today. Take a listen. (Link below.)
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Cool conference happening at UVA in two weeks!
buddhiststudies.as.virginia.edu/theravada-civi…
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What seminaries are growing? Which ones are declining?
I compared the 2024 data from ATS to the same data from 2007 below.
Midwestern Baptist is up 290%
United Theological is up 244%
Southwestern Baptist is down 46%
Fuller Theological is down 63%
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One of our most important findings—one’s support for “tolerance” in the abstract does not increase the willingness to tolerate one’s political opponents.
Rob Sica@robsica
🔪"Contrary to received wisdom... The difference between tolerating the in-group and the out-group is as present for those who sign up to all the abstract principles of tolerance as it is for those who do not."
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Poor form from the Post as well as anti-Italian discrimination
Timmy Facciola@TimmyFacciola_
NY Post remains allergic to publishing the term “Judge Street Journal” and insists on calling me a “freelancer.” They’re happy to lift my reporting to pad their own stories—but if you’re gonna do that, you gotta spell my last name correctly…
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New from me today @the74: Learning in K–12 schools began a generational decline 13 years ago. Top researchers just released an analysis exploring how it happened
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@kearney_melissa As a faculty member at UVa, I would appreciate multiple investigations into what in the world is happening here w/ our most senior leadership
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