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  • The Man Born to Be King

    March 15, 2023

    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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  • Laurus, Sacramentality and Enchantment

    January 27, 2023

    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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  • Happy Public Domain Day 2023!

    January 1, 2023

    This year’s list items entering the public domain in the United States includes several works from 1927, including: Steppenwolf, Hardy Boys, Metropolis, and a smattering of works on evolution and faith.

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  • On Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Three Book Recommendations)

    December 8, 2022

    You may have heard the recent news of a major advance in practical machine learning and artificial intelligence. Released on November 30th by the San Francisco artificial intelligence company OpenAI, ChatGPT is being hailed as "quite simply, the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public." Here are some of our recommendations for reading up on the coming brave new world.

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  • O Taste and See (a Recommendation of 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅)

    September 3, 2022

    Whether or not reading old books can make us good, devouring this delicious new one surely can’t hurt, for in it we find a mode of reading that summons us to charity and honesty, and thus to humility, making us less assured of our own righteousness and less frantic at the apparent folly of our living neighbors. 

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  • Freedom and Transfiguration: As Earth Without Water (Book Recommendation)

    May 15, 2022

    Ultimately, Carl’s novel is a journey of hope. Despite characters’ woundedness, art-making still frees and transfigures: draws out the parched soul, leads it to water. In the end, Carl suggests, it is the water from which the soul drinks that matters; for some, art-making is simply the path that leads there.

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  • New Public Domain Works for 2022

    January 7, 2022

    It’s January again, which means thousands of books, films and other copyrighted items entered the public domain and are now free to be appreciated, reprinted or artistically remixed.

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  • Wild Belief: Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness (Book Recommendation)

    September 21, 2021

    Wild Belief serves as a literary pilgrimage through the lives of poets and prophets who have allowed the wilderness to transform their lives and their work — who have found the wilderness to be “a locus for renewal,” both spiritually and literarily.

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  • Happy Public Domain Day, 2021!

    January 1, 2021

    This year’s list items entering the public domain in the United States includes several notable works from 1925, the year the British Broadcasting Company called “the greatest year for books ever.”

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  • The Flowers of St. Francis (Book and Film Recommendation)

    December 7, 2020

    In the midst of the great crisis of truth that followed the World Wars, Rossellini’s films suggest that there is no more true character than someone playing himself.

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