Art historian, author of Mother of the Lamb (2022), "a book of remarkable scholarship combined with deep humanity." -Peter Brown https://xitter.cf/t.co/ixR06QjZSm

Wheaton, IL
Joined February 2009
The X algorithms tell me I should repost excerpts of the article that I just published to get you to read it but all I can do is post Collingwood excerpts instead.
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This is why Ruskin rules at @WheatonCollege art history so long as I have a say.
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For the evening crowd, one of the Orthodox luminaries of the 20th century said this: “Do not change your Church. You carry your problems in you and with you. You will find them wherever you go. Christ is present in all Churches. Search and you will find.”
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Because thumos is trending (from Rowan Williams’ essay on Evagrius in this 2023 volume).
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Ancient Assyrians worshipping @claudeai at the @ISAC_UChicago
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Fantastic and charitable discussion at the University of Chicago regarding the great @UNDPress book The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art.
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And that’s how they deal with a senior, respected scholar. If you want to know how they handle the runts, I could tell stories. buymeacoffee.com/ayjay/the-l…
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In a coincidence of cosmic proportions, my contributor copies of @Image_Journal with my poem about Kansas in it came less than a week after my essay on Newton was published.
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Here’s the essay equivalent of the yodler everyone is tweeting about: “Sometimes I do not know where this place stops and where I begin.” thedispatch.com/article/port…
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No pads necessary.
Our homecoming football game
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Good news on the attention span panic front: Several of my students, assigned to read an abridged version of Dostoyevsky’s Demons, upgraded to full length just because.
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Hard to take seriously the philosophers who deny personhood to unborn babies but apply it to AIs.
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