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  • Bach’s Favorite Number

    December 15, 2022

    Bach’s 14 canons contain too much mathematical coding to suppose their self-harmonization is a coincidence. If the musician understands how to fit all the pieces of the mathematical puzzle within the canon together, then they can unlock its beauty. 

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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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  • The God Who Mugs You

    December 2, 2022

    God scoffs at religious superiority; he wants his people to love him and their neighbors. When a Muslim or a Buddhist or an atheist suspicious of or even antagonistic to the Church lives out a better example of Christ’s life than a Christian does, the Christian is freed to recognize the face of Jesus Christ along with Jacob and admit in wonder that “I have seen your face like seeing the face of God."

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  • Thanksgiving Edition

    November 24, 2022

    A selection of readings for Thanksgiving 2022

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  • Six Unwanted Books

    November 17, 2022

    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

    November 11, 2022

    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.

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  • All This Juice and All This Joy: A Reflection on the Minnesota State Fair

    November 3, 2022

    Unlike Hopkins' bounty, the “juice” and “joy” of the state fair is far more often to be found sticking to the bottom of your shoe than in a pristine experience of nature...and yet...

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  • Featured Artist: Abigail Halpin

    October 27, 2022

    Abigail Halpin describes herself as a New England-based illustrator, creating art with a focus on story and narrative. Check out her work here!

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  • “Aristotle on Lesbos”

    October 14, 2022

    ⎺Original Poetry from Abbey von Gohren

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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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