Art historian, author of Mother of the Lamb (2022), "a book of remarkable scholarship combined with deep humanity." -Peter Brown https://xitter.cf/t.co/ixR06QjZSm
Wheaton, IL
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ACT NOW! You can get my #MaterialMysticism essay at @commentmag FOR FREE 1x per month if you sign up IN THE NEXT 30 SECONDS by submitting your email at the link below so ACT NOW (actually, it's always free, but ACT NOW ANYWAY). comment.org/columns/material…
This is when Ruskin rules at @WheatonCollege art history so long as I have a say.
For the evening crowd, one of the Orthodox luminaries of the 20th century said this: “Do not change your Church. You carry your problems in you and with you. You will find them wherever you go. Christ is present in all Churches. Search and you will find.”
New piece @commentmag on when the Jesus Prayer becomes a jacuzzi. comment.org/the-gentrificati…
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New piece @commentmag on when the Jesus Prayer becomes a jacuzzi. comment.org/the-gentrificati…
New piece @commentmag on when the Jesus Prayer becomes a jacuzzi. comment.org/the-gentrificati…
Fantastic and charitable discussion at the University of Chicago regarding the great @UNDPress book The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art.
Glad to get a mention in this fine piece from @CTmagazine
And that’s how they deal with a senior, respected scholar. If you want to know how they handle the runts, I could tell stories.
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In a coincidence of cosmic proportions, my contributor copies of @Image_Journal with my poem about Kansas in it came less than a week after my essay on Newton was published.
Here’s the essay equivalent of the yodler everyone is tweeting about: “Sometimes I do not know where this place stops and where I begin.” thedispatch.com/article/port…
Good news on the attention span panic front: Several of my students, assigned to read an abridged version of Dostoyevsky’s Demons, upgraded to full length just because.
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Hard to take seriously the philosophers who deny personhood to unborn babies but apply it to AIs.
Antón Barba-Kay predicted all this.
This is deeply disturbing:
Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. 1/ tinyurl.com/preview/296b5z8z
