⎺Original Poetry from Anne-Sophie Eizayaga
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Original Derivation
For each of these, Dylan, Bach, jazz, Shakespeare, and chant—the bread and butter is something not made, but received. More than that, using this given material seems to have enhanced their originality. It gives them more room to think.
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April: “Warrior with Shield”
Though the surface of the statue was pockmarked, scratched and pitted–the limbs didn't seem severed or mangled, so much as ground down, worn away as wood or stone is worn away by water or weather or time. For that reason the statue seemed to occupy two time frames, one brief, one prolonged. Both the violent instant, the impact of a blinding light, an obliterating moment of force–but also the slow duration over which the supposedly permanent is steadily, patiently effaced.
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Blinded by Ideals: Mark Twain’s Wisdom for Classical Schools
The unique situation of the classical school revival in the modern age makes it especially vulnerable to the temptation of ideology.
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The Man Born to Be King
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kathryn Wehr on her new edition of The Man Born to Be King, the classic cycle of plays about Jesus's life.
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“Two Trees”
⎺Original Poetry from J-T Kelly
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Laurus, Sacramentality and Enchantment
Laurus teaches us about bearing—each other’s burdens and our own, the weight of our sin, and the weight of glory.
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Music Recommendation: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
Meet Emahoy, the 99-year-old Ethiopian nun who writes and plays her own unique blend of music from ancient to modern influences, all of them deeply personal.
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Six Unwanted Books
For bibliophiles, their books are mirrors of their character, and we judge ourselves by the relationship we maintain with our books. An unlikely group of six books made me confront this part of myself.
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Memento Mori in Minneapolis
But rather than forgetting pain or fooling ourselves into silliness, perhaps there is a holy admixture of laughter and mourning, a way to remember our own end through these earthly and earthy rituals.