Joel J Miller
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I’m writing a book. Actually, I have been for about a decade now. But I finally landed a publisher! Here’s the backstory.
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@radleybalko
The idea that we’re doing 3am raids on people for nonappearance is nuts to begin with. Pick her up leaving the grocery store.
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Dystopian line dancing.
shenzhen, china
file under “mandatory lockdown can be fun and rewarding”
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I find this divide fascinating.
Democrats are less likely to say they believe in the God of the Bible than Republicans (45% vs. 70%).
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I always love seeing how people make things. This is fascinating.
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It might sound a little strange, but Tim Keller played a pivotal role in my becoming Eastern Orthodox.
Back in 2007 a friend recommended I listen to a sermon of his entitled “The Lord of the Vine.” I downloaded the mp3 from Keller’s website and listened to it on my iPod…
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Humans are pretty neat.
About 95% of serotonin is produced in the gastrointestinal tract which is lined with a hundred million neurons, that are influenced by bacteria. The inner workings of the digestive system don’t just help digest food, but also guide moods and emotions
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@je_somerton
“The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no one in the room but the corpse.”
—Charles Williams, The War in Heaven
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Citing atrocities, Seattle mayor wants Vladimir
#Lenin
statue swept into the dustbin of history
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The memory of few saints is as cherished as that of St. Nicholas. Known as Nicholas the Wonderworker, he is remembered in the church on December 6 and closely associated with the Christmas season.
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@Real_RoyGBiv
@nathanbaugh27
Probably does. Doesn’t invalidate his point. The crisis of inequality is primarily a crisis of mimetic desire run amok: envy.
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Paris is a good reminder that people bitching about microaggressions should be grateful they have no idea what real aggression is.
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If you’re not buying more books than you can read in a lifetime, you’re doing it wrong.
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No philosophy majors? The modern university education isn’t about learning how to think and probe and persuade. It’s wildly expensive trade school.
SUNY Fredonia is cutting 13 majors, including philosophy:
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@AmericanGwyn
I was floored when I read that novel the first time. His descent—figurative and literal—is unlike anything I’ve read before. Wild. Demented. Where the hell did that story come from?
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Obama will hand his successor a presidency even more powerful and dangerous than the one he inherited from George W. Bush.
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Man shoots 3 at nightclub, stopped by another with concealed firearm
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Unstable in All His Ways
My review of Thomas Kidd’s fascinating new biography of Thomas Jefferson
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I haven’t read this in maybe fifteen or sixteen years. Just started again last night. It’s so good.
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"No one heals himself by wounding another."
Ambrose of Milan
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What 90s movie do you consider to be perfect?
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“Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.”
—Frederick Buechner
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@tedgioia
“Unknown.” Saw someone post that it’s nice the news media is no longer discriminating against the ignorant.
Better headline: “Overdue award for legendary artist inspired by lifetime working in the blues.”
Oy vey.
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Why Build a Personal Library?
5 Reasons Besides Being ‘Smug and Middle Class’ to Collect Books for Yourself
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One quote that summarizes Bourdain’s final chapter:
“Success is a great force for conservatism, because it’s quite hard to break out of what you do to do something else...And I think that, for a restless person, that’s a constraint.”
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@Nigella_Lawson
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@Robert_E_Kelly
You have a beautiful family. And you prepared us all for the postpandemic world of Zoom. Trailblazer :)
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I recently re-read C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces. It remains one of my favorite novels. I’m sharing a review tomorrow.
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@lukeburgis
I went through a period griping about Twitter and then heard
@tylercowen
say something to the effect of “if you don’t like it, fix it. You control the feed.” I took it to heart: unfollowed, muted, etc. Now it’s mostly great, most of the time.
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This whole cussing title trend is getting tiresome and seems childish—ironically, in this case.
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And with this sad bit of news, I'm going to bed and reading something before lights out.
1 in 4 Americans did not read or listen to a single book in the last year
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Cool: How all the apostles died and where you can find their remains today
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@JennyShank
With a missing “i” in the sign! The long-gone copyeditors are corkscrewing in their graves.
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Trump fans, look up trumpery in the dictionary. You're being played
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Cool news: The Eagle and Child (aka the Bird and the Baby), C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’s favorite haunt, has been purchased by the Ellison Institute of Technology.
Better news: EIT has plans to “refurbish and reopen the iconic venue.”
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@SteveStuWill
@paulbloomatyale
You could probably get away with it without the anthropomorphic bar chart. Just give us some well-placed dots; then we’re not worried about previously unknown Leprechaun population of Indonesia.
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I was at Sonic. The order taker said his name was Houston. I ordered three Sonic Blasts, but he said he couldn’t make them because the machine was broken. “Houston,” I said, “we have a problem.”
I’ve been waiting my whole life to do that.
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9 Tips to Read More This Coming Year
Here are some simple strategies to stretch the marginal time we all have to read more books this coming year.
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An amazing testimony to the hope of the resurrection. Maria Langhans died at 28 while giving birth to her stillborn child. This is their gravestone. It reminds me of the words of the old spiritual, “Ain’t no grave can hold this body down.”
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Big personal news:
I’ve been chipping away at a big book project and finally have landed a deal! It’s a history of the book as an information technology.
Here’s the announcement from Publisher’s Marketplace. Backstory in tomorrow’s newsletter 👉
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If you’ve ever wondered why building a personal library is a good move, I’ve got five reasons here.
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If the NRA had any sense, they'd be out in front on
#FalconHeights
demanding justice for law-abiding citizen.
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How ‘bout we just pray without the follow, m’kay?
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Literary feuds are fascinating.
CS Lewis hated TS Eliot—“the single man who sums up the thing I am fighting against,” Lewis said.
He took swipes at him for decades, but they eventually reconciled and came to enjoy each other.
What changed?
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This is your brain
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This is your brain on the 24-hour news cycle
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Any questions?
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@gunpolicy
@gregkellyusa
Because we there’s a narrative in our culture that police are never in the wrong. That used to be applied to soldiers. We’re over that, post-Vietnam. But we still elevate law enforcement and look for any means to excuse the jerks and abusers.
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After years of struggling, Barnes & Noble is experiencing success again. Why? The company’s new CEO James Daunt actually loves books and understands what bookstores are for: discovering them.
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@DavidGolann
@lenibriscoe
Er, “problematic”? I think the word you’re looking for is “pathological.”
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@robkhenderson
Is it curious that American culture seems more sexualized than ever but, as shown by these sorts of statistics, simultaneously repressed? It’s like the more we emphasize it, the further away it drifts.
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Whenever I respond to the alt-right movement, I feel like I've just tripped headlong into a septic tank.
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@BenSasse
I thought this was all their fault. Didn't our beloved executive say as much earlier today?
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Here's what we know: You can always take a bad situation, add politicians, wonks, and lawyers, and make it considerably worse.
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Trump: Once prez, "I'll change my tone" = Boyfriend: "When we're married, I'll treat you better"
http://t.co/J4O7bB7chd
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"I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered 'French Toast during the Renaissance'." Peter Kay
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Meg and I have reached the age when the weddings we attend are for our friends’ kids.
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I don’t even know how satirists don’t simply hang their heads and quit. Imagine thinking, “No sweat. I can top that.”
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I love it when the light catches the incense and shoots luminous beams into the room.
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I was today years old when I discovered C.S. Lewis published A Grief Observed in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. When he died two years later, the book was reissued under his own name.
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@ThomasSujit
Highly. I was thinking the same thing when I saw this. Remarkable to me that people find the St. Thomas story unbelievable. It’s utterly believable.
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Why should we bother reading old books? Here’s a case study on the value of the classics, courtesy of Jamie Kreiner and
@PrincetonUPress
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How to Focus—a refreshed edition of selections from John Cassian’s monastic guide, the Conferences. It’s excellent 👉
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“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”
—Mr. Darcy
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What do you have in common with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, critic Walter Benjamin, and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling? If you’re like many people—and the artists above—you struggle with loneliness, at least from time to time. I do. Reading…
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Read to learn, not refute. Sound advice: “If someone reads this or any other book…to hunt for phrases to reproach the author so that he might then set himself up in his own opinion as wiser than he, such a person will never receive any profit of any kind."—Maximus the Confessor
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@omni_american
Because beauty is a path to the God who waits at the end of the road.
“Beauty will save the world.”
―Fyodor Dostoevsky
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@JustinPetersMin
@gavinortlund
That’s impossible. We’re all products of a culture—ours is Western, liberal, and modern. Your worldview is undoubtedly shaped by Scripture, just as are the cultural West, liberalism, and modernity. But by not Scripture *alone.* We’re all born in a time and place, and that…
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Fifteen years ago I married my very favorite human. Megan said “I do” and with those magic words unlocked the best years of my life. Neither one of us could have imagined all the bumps and turns of the last decade and a half when we began. But it turns out you don’t need…
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This
@tylercowen
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@NoubarAfeyan
is fantastic. His dynamist take on life and innovation is, well, infectious.
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C.S. Lewis had at least three careers: novelist, lay theologian, and academic. Most readers are aware of the first two through books like The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. But as these books show, there’s more to the story.
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Little known fact: Cormac McCarthy sidelined as a pro-bono copy editor for the physicists, biologists, economists, and other scientists he liked to hang out with. Some of those projects went on to become bestselling books and highly influential articles.
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As I remind my teenagers regularly:
“I am an old man and you are all children. I know more about the world than any of you.”
—Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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This is the problem with a fundamentalist reading of the Bible. There’s no proof text that works for owning people; it’s a detestable practice with no defense or apology. The only reason to fight on this point is loving your lens more than your neighbor. Cc.
@drantbradley
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