Casey Spinks
@CaseySpinks
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Postdoc @UTAustin | PhD @Baylor | MA, BA @LSU Contributing Editor @FrontPorchRepub
Austin, TX
Joined July 2024
My book now has a pre-order page. Looks like it'll come out January 8, 2026. I'll hound you about this plenty later, but for a start, please ask your library to buy a copy. https://t.co/RsvFTs2e4K
bloomsbury.com
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For those of you heading to AAR this year, I hope to see you there. I'll present Monday morning in the Christian Systematic Theology Unit on Kierkegaard's Sense of Divine Authority. I hope to argue why being a crank about Schleiermacher and Hegel is good sometimes.
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One ex. I promise to cite when I talk about the book. I read Henry Bugbee's 'Inward Morning' in winter 2020. Such profound reading I'd never re-read it, wanting nostalgically to keep the memory. Finally re-read it this week. Open up my book (written 2023-4): he's on every page.
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Final proofs of Kierkegaard's Ontology are turned in. After few rounds of reading work that I'd stepped away from after finishing, I'm shocked by how much I'd read elsewhere silently influenced my writing, in ways I didn't know. 'Books are made out of books,' as McCarthy said.
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My general response to this prospect https://t.co/zuKyLRoNh6
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A writer looks at the theological implications of debt.
BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize 50 year mortgages, attempting to make it easier for young people to buy a home.
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I'm re-reading Henry Bugbee's 'The Inward Morning' and can't re-commend it enough. One of the few 20th c. American scholars to have achieved philosophic writing in its very form. I'm fortunate to have found the Bald Eagle Press first edition. It had his obituary tucked in it.
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We need about a million shepherds in USA. Think of how many miles of roadside we mow for lack of shepherds.
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Until then, I'm happy to endorse Callan Wink as one up-and-coming literary outdoorsman, whose 'Beartooth' was pretty good: https://t.co/3TrxYQrRMC
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I found that Wink has not simply played haphazardly with an abundance of tropes but collected them together, arranged them in a pile—so he could then throw them aside and press deeper into the...
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In light of the recent Atlantic article: if anyone would like to hire a literary outdoorsman, I'm accepting offers. I'd agree to delete my social media account and host interviews only every 10 years. I require funding to be stationed in southeast Louisiana.
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Happy to share I'm working on a theological commentary of the Declaration of Independence: Finding the Founding. (Think Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans but for the Declaration.) Looks like it will be released in multiple outlets throughout 2026 to celebrate the 250th.
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#Commentary: We have need of you, my brothers and sisters in the Lord. With you, we strive “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” #GAFCON #AnglicanCommunion
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We have need of you, my brothers and sisters in the Lord. With you, we strive “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”
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Only a God can yet save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness... We cannot think him into being here, we can at most awaken the readiness of expectation." —Heidegger, Der Spiegel Interview, 1966
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“The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” —Luke 17:20-21
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Whoever you are, wherever you are, read this book. It has my strongest recommendation
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Bay St, Louis, Mississippi Life on the Coast - Louis Raynaud (1938) Photo by Jimmy Emerson
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The front cover is now on the website. Looks like the publishing date is now February 5, 2026. If you'd like, please pre-order or ask your library to pre-order.
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"But the highest form of suffering is the dying of death, which human-being offers for the abidance of the truth of being. This offering is the purest experience of the voice of Being." —Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe 54: Parmenides
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Next semester, I’ll teach CIV 322K, “Politics and the Transcendent,” a course on theology and politics. It’ll be the first time this course is taught at UT. As I prepare my syllabus, I wonder whether it will meet Mr. Jefferson’s expectations for public higher education.
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