Art historian, author of Mother of the Lamb (2022), "a book of remarkable scholarship combined with deep humanity." -Peter Brown tinyurl.com/2p9vpx6k

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At least Allen Ginsberg got to see the best minds of his generation "destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." I had to slowly watch the primarily oral culture of Youtube & podcasts set back serious theological/psychological/intellectual discussions a good thirty years.
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I wonder if this is how younger folks see the current intellectual landscape. Can't blame 'em.
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“The theology of divine energies obliges the Orthodox to perceive with joy that there is orthodoxy outside the visible limits of what is called the Orthodox Church.” André Borrely (L’œcuménisme spirtiuel, 223).
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That prayer Ap ain't enough.
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Combustible scholasticism. 🔥🔥🔥
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Latest view of the book horde for the forthcoming Mere Iconography. Home stretch!
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"One is not brought into contact with the faith by means of the virtues, but with the virtues by means of faith" -Gregory the Great (p. 31).
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"True apophaticism does not conclude with a denial."
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Replying to @MidnightPhilosX
That isn’t necessarily a permanent condition. I’ve seen and counseled many people who have started where you are and then found the dearest freshness deep down things. Be patient. Try letting that sense of wishing to be free of constraint become a prayer.
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Haven't seen this but my sense from the preview is that the revolt against the false intimacy of chatbots continues apace. youtube.com/watch?v=gMC8kkwb…
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University of Chicago adopts (i.e. mandates) AI for all students and faculty. On the other hand, our wilderness Advanced Integrative Seminar immersion @WheatonCollege into Ojibwe culture, including canoeing to the best pictographs in the Boundary Waters, was amazing.
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Classic.
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Augustine on tongues. "Therefore, since also now he [the Holy Spirit] is received, someone might ask, Why does no one speak in the languages of all nations? Because now the Church herself speaks in the languages of all nations. Before the Church was in one nation, when it was speaking in the languages of all. By speaking in the languages of all it signified the future, that, by growing through the nations, it might speak in the languages of all." - Augustine, Tractate on John 32.2.
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That's the vibe going into summer 2026.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
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Me and my friends getting left behind by AI
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The book—The Life of Martin Thornton and Selected Writings— which I prepared for the Breck Conference next month, arrived today from the printer!
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The wilderness can’t save you (said by a guy about to go into the wilderness again with fourteen intrepid students). millinerd.substack.com/p/the…

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