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“We have it on good authority that any effort we make to pass on the gifts we have received from God, though it may never be logged on a spreadsheet or featured in an annual report, will not be forgotten.”
That None Should Fall
Hierarchy is good, but it can go bad.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:55 PM
“We have it on good authority that any effort we make to pass on the gifts we have received from God, though it may never be logged on a spreadsheet or featured in an annual report, will not be forgotten.”
“Authority in the world of AI will not come from controlling knowledge (nobody will do that anymore). It will come from tapping into the profound desires that drive people to learn in the first place.”
What Is the University For?
Exploring how Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are affecting higher education, and the formation of full humans.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“Authority in the world of AI will not come from controlling knowledge (nobody will do that anymore). It will come from tapping into the profound desires that drive people to learn in the first place.”
“Where one stands in relation to facts depends on a higher-order question of what life is for, which neither ideology nor factual truth can answer.”
All Things Come to Be Through Strife
The thought of Czech dissident philosopher Jan Patočka represents a bold way of maintaining openness to the truth, whatever the cost.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:40 PM
“Where one stands in relation to facts depends on a higher-order question of what life is for, which neither ideology nor factual truth can answer.”
“What we witness in the move from authentic Christianity to cultural Christianity is the degeneration from virtues to values.”
Live Not by Lies Even When You’re Winning
Christians and social conservatives may worry about groupthink and coercion when the Left is in power. What concerns remain when things change?
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January 26, 2026 at 7:35 PM
“What we witness in the move from authentic Christianity to cultural Christianity is the degeneration from virtues to values.”
“If you are this rock, if you are the now-dead creatures embedded within it, Lord, I am not sure I entirely like you. For what I see is death.”
On Christ and Coral
A meditation addressed to God on the mystical properties of coral.
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January 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“If you are this rock, if you are the now-dead creatures embedded within it, Lord, I am not sure I entirely like you. For what I see is death.”
“We lack a compelling shared image of what school is for because we lack a shared image of what a human life is for.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at School
Education is awash in technique with little philosophical substance. While we wait for the next game-changing treatise, how do we look at school in the meantime?
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January 26, 2026 at 5:52 PM
“We lack a compelling shared image of what school is for because we lack a shared image of what a human life is for.”
“To think institutionally is to remember that we inherit before we innovate, that we hold something in trust.”
The Institutions of Tomorrow
Institutional trust is down, but we still long for the goods institutions bring.
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January 24, 2026 at 2:52 PM
“To think institutionally is to remember that we inherit before we innovate, that we hold something in trust.”
“We must take ownership of our frustration and look for ways to act more effectively—rather than just waiting for outsiders to rescue us. We have become accustomed to understanding ourselves as spectators of a world out of our control.”
Catalysts of Agency
A look at how institutions are the ways in which we live out our calling and take meaningful action in and as community.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:45 PM
“We must take ownership of our frustration and look for ways to act more effectively—rather than just waiting for outsiders to rescue us. We have become accustomed to understanding ourselves as spectators of a world out of our control.”
“Men are made, not grown. That requires structure as well as instruction; it requires rituals and rites.”
Richard V. Reeves on the role of institutions in making men.
Richard V. Reeves on the role of institutions in making men.
Making Men
Boys need rituals and rites of passage to make their way into manhood, and for that they need institutions.
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January 24, 2026 at 12:55 PM
“Men are made, not grown. That requires structure as well as instruction; it requires rituals and rites.”
Richard V. Reeves on the role of institutions in making men.
Richard V. Reeves on the role of institutions in making men.
“The surest way forward for Christians will be little, local, and guided by love.”
Cassandra Nelson on hierarchy’s place in the story of salvation.
Cassandra Nelson on hierarchy’s place in the story of salvation.
That None Should Fall
Hierarchy is good, but it can go bad.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:57 AM
“The surest way forward for Christians will be little, local, and guided by love.”
Cassandra Nelson on hierarchy’s place in the story of salvation.
Cassandra Nelson on hierarchy’s place in the story of salvation.
“The emerging spiritual landscape looks more like that of late antiquity: a sprawling marketplace of faiths, cults, and eclectic spiritual practices, each offering to re-enchant a once disenchanted age.”
Not So Secular Sweden
Sweden used to be one of the most secular countries on earth. But over the past decade things have changed, and Enlightenment rationality seems to be on its way out.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
“The emerging spiritual landscape looks more like that of late antiquity: a sprawling marketplace of faiths, cults, and eclectic spiritual practices, each offering to re-enchant a once disenchanted age.”
“The book recommendation is the teacher’s secret weapon for provoking self-discovery. Reading is the path we offer students for building expansive inner worlds while the outer world fractures around us.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at School
Education is awash in technique with little philosophical substance. While we wait for the next game-changing treatise, how do we look at school in the meantime?
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January 23, 2026 at 4:20 PM
“The book recommendation is the teacher’s secret weapon for provoking self-discovery. Reading is the path we offer students for building expansive inner worlds while the outer world fractures around us.”
“If we want a humane future, we will have to form humane persons—people who can live in community, search for truth, and resist the pull toward optimized desolation.”
What Is the University For?
Exploring how Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are affecting higher education, and the formation of full humans.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:39 PM
“If we want a humane future, we will have to form humane persons—people who can live in community, search for truth, and resist the pull toward optimized desolation.”
“Institutions are the structures that teach people how to bring that moral ambition into contact with the world in a way that is productive, sustainable, resilient, and ultimately fulfilling.”
Institutionalizing Gen Z
Zoomers want institutions to be everything they believe in right now, but perhaps the slow, imperfect work of institutions is just what they need.
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January 22, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“Institutions are the structures that teach people how to bring that moral ambition into contact with the world in a way that is productive, sustainable, resilient, and ultimately fulfilling.”
“What worries me is not the school’s humble origins but its slow remaking in the model of the larger technocratic, fragmented polytechnic utiliversity that now dominates.”
On the Road to Higher Learning
On a series of college road trips with his son, Jeff Reimer reflects on fatherhood, freedom, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts. Through two universities’ contrasting visions, he probes what…
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January 22, 2026 at 8:40 PM
“What worries me is not the school’s humble origins but its slow remaking in the model of the larger technocratic, fragmented polytechnic utiliversity that now dominates.”
“The university cannot simply be a vendor of information or a certification pipeline. It must be a place of counter-formation—where students are inducted into practices, relationships, and habits of attention that teach them how to be human.”
What Is the University For?
Exploring how Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are affecting higher education, and the formation of full humans.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:35 PM
“The university cannot simply be a vendor of information or a certification pipeline. It must be a place of counter-formation—where students are inducted into practices, relationships, and habits of attention that teach them how to be human.”
“Music can bring people together, as in a juke joint on the outskirts of town, or tear them apart.”
Victor Clemente on music, fundamentalism, and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”
Victor Clemente on music, fundamentalism, and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”
Christian Blues Traveller
Ryan Coogler's film "Sinners" tells a story about music and faith that cuts across time, space, and families.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“Music can bring people together, as in a juke joint on the outskirts of town, or tear them apart.”
Victor Clemente on music, fundamentalism, and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”
Victor Clemente on music, fundamentalism, and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”
“An education designed to produce efficient life seems destined instead to breed cynicism and emptiness. And we know what happens to vacuums in nature and in culture.”
Todd Shy on what school is for when “best practices” aren’t enough.
Todd Shy on what school is for when “best practices” aren’t enough.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at School
Education is awash in technique with little philosophical substance. While we wait for the next game-changing treatise, how do we look at school in the meantime?
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January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
“An education designed to produce efficient life seems destined instead to breed cynicism and emptiness. And we know what happens to vacuums in nature and in culture.”
Todd Shy on what school is for when “best practices” aren’t enough.
Todd Shy on what school is for when “best practices” aren’t enough.
“The singularity has come for universities, and we must adapt as a result. If you think the main point of university humanities classes was to teach expository essay writing, the season ahead will be a catastrophe.”
Meghan Sullivan on AI and education.
Meghan Sullivan on AI and education.
What Is the University For?
Exploring how Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are affecting higher education, and the formation of full humans.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“The singularity has come for universities, and we must adapt as a result. If you think the main point of university humanities classes was to teach expository essay writing, the season ahead will be a catastrophe.”
Meghan Sullivan on AI and education.
Meghan Sullivan on AI and education.
“It appears that if a school does not make the liberal arts part of its core identity, those disciplines will shrivel up and become desiccated shells of their former selves.”
On the Road to Higher Learning
On a series of college road trips with his son, Jeff Reimer reflects on fatherhood, freedom, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts. Through two universities’ contrasting visions, he probes what…
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January 16, 2026 at 11:57 AM
“It appears that if a school does not make the liberal arts part of its core identity, those disciplines will shrivel up and become desiccated shells of their former selves.”
“Thinking about mission, claiming that college is for more than job readiness, and designing a curriculum that engages the whole person do not make a college idealistic, removed from reality, or outdated.”
Willem de Ruijter on the future of higher education.
Willem de Ruijter on the future of higher education.
The Future of Higher Education
Higher education has allowed its mission to be driven by the people in charge of enrollment: this is not good.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“Thinking about mission, claiming that college is for more than job readiness, and designing a curriculum that engages the whole person do not make a college idealistic, removed from reality, or outdated.”
Willem de Ruijter on the future of higher education.
Willem de Ruijter on the future of higher education.
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“People aren’t coming to this church for theological certainties or fire-and-brimstone preaching, but for something gentler…”
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Not So Secular Sweden
Sweden used to be one of the most secular countries on earth. But over the past decade things have changed, and Enlightenment rationality seems to be on its way out.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM
“People aren’t coming to this church for theological certainties or fire-and-brimstone preaching, but for something gentler…”
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"Some argue that the spiritual awakening is part of a reactionary backlash. But in Sweden it is directed toward one of the most progressive of churches in the world: the Church of Sweden, a denomination that ordains women, marries LGBTQ couples, and champions generous migration policies."
“Christianity is at its best when it does not rage against the present age but engages it with curiosity and a sense of adventure.”
@joelhalldorf.bsky.social explores why Sweden is getting religion.
@joelhalldorf.bsky.social explores why Sweden is getting religion.
Not So Secular Sweden
Sweden used to be one of the most secular countries on earth. But over the past decade things have changed, and Enlightenment rationality seems to be on its way out.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:21 AM
"Some argue that the spiritual awakening is part of a reactionary backlash. But in Sweden it is directed toward one of the most progressive of churches in the world: the Church of Sweden, a denomination that ordains women, marries LGBTQ couples, and champions generous migration policies."
“Even here, in the inner sanctum of liberal learning, the totalizing force of utility seeks to encompass all things in its gaping maw.”
Jeff Reimer on fatherhood, education, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts.
Jeff Reimer on fatherhood, education, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts.
On the Road to Higher Learning
On a series of college road trips with his son, Jeff Reimer reflects on fatherhood, freedom, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts. Through two universities’ contrasting visions, he probes what…
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January 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
“Even here, in the inner sanctum of liberal learning, the totalizing force of utility seeks to encompass all things in its gaping maw.”
Jeff Reimer on fatherhood, education, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts.
Jeff Reimer on fatherhood, education, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts.
“At its extreme, technocracy tends toward the systematic removal of people from all activities of human life—entertainment, cooking, transportation, education, and even friendship.”
Public Health’s Technocracy Problem
We are becoming more and more lonely and isolated because of the technocracy we live in, but the cure is not more technique.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
“At its extreme, technocracy tends toward the systematic removal of people from all activities of human life—entertainment, cooking, transportation, education, and even friendship.”