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“Distress can be a signal that we live in a violently unjust world and should find a way to contribute to its restoration. There is danger in numbing those signals too systematically.”
Jacob Potash on the age of antidepressants.
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“Human formation will be governed either by the attention plundering of companies or by concerted educational responses to them.”
Antón Barba-Kay on why schools must become countercultural.
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“‘Human’ is the word both for what we cannot fail to be and for what we must strain every nerve to become; this is our paradox, reborn once and again for every age and in each person.”
Antón Barba-Kay on formation in a digital age.
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“Perhaps this is what the mystics have always been inviting us to see: that what we call ‘the future’ may already be present, waiting to be unveiled.”
Eunice Gall on art and mysticism, in conversation with Tiffany Thompson.
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“We are being morally formed by services and habits that aren’t really morally formative. We are embedded in practices that systematically disembed us.”
Antón Barba-Kay on education, technology, and moral formation.
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“War itself becomes a home, and this is the most dangerous of homes, because outwardly it is flawless. It gives what quiet life did not give: a solid, unarguable meaning.”
Anastasia Korbet on memory, attention, and wartime Ukraine.
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“The call is not to spontaneity and novelty but to routines and practices that (re)train us on how to stay in our bodies, stay with our feelings, and stay connected to others with whom vulnerability is not only allowed but expected.”
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“We do not have to will ourselves, educate ourselves, strive, exert, or consume ourselves in the hopes of attaining the peace that comes from holiness.”
Doug Sikkema on self-control.
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“I had thought that the intellectual life was separate from the agricultural life of my youth. That books, not the body, were the path to success. Berry upended that convention.”
Michael Lamb on Wendell Berry.
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“All cultures are directed by a vision of the good life. But sometimes those visions are mirages.”
Doug Sikkema on desire, self-control, and the humanities.
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“If you’ve ever devoted yourself to a craft or to a community, I imagine you recognize this sequence: the long apprenticeship to discipline before the moment that no amount of discipline can command or predict.”
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“Christian humanism refuses the idea that humans can be reduced to a single inherited or ascribed identity. Such a view turns culture into destiny and denies the possibility of solidarity across deep differences.”
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“A culture that normalizes the acceleration of consumption eradicates the time and space between almost any felt desire and its fulfillment.”
Doug Sikkema on self-control in a culture of consumption.
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“Good institutions do not simply act on people. They enable people to act with and for each other.”
@WestLondonMan on institutions and human agency.
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“The brutal paradox is that we lose control over exactly what promised to give us control in the first place.”
Kent Dunnington on the paradox at the heart of addiction.
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“The tempo of our times seems to compress the intervals in which one posture can give way to another. There’s little luxury of sequence. Everything is all at once, all the time.”
Anne Snyder on art, God, and uncontrollability.
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