New CC content on Jürgen Moltmann, Sagrada Familia, Jerry Falwell, W. H. Auden, and more.
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** Profound people and places
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Sometimes our articles are about the ordinary. I enjoy these pieces, whether they focus on the week-in, week-out texture of life in a congregation ([link removed]) or one columnist’s religious zeal for the game of basketball ([link removed]) . But other times our writers reflect on the trailblazers and legends of theology, ministry, art, or activism. I also tend to enjoy these odes (or criticisms).
This week we have some of the big-name reflections. After the recent death of theologian Jürgen Moltmann, Nancy Bedford (who was one of his doctoral students in the 1990s) reflects on her decades of life-giving friendship ([link removed]) with him. Alejandra Oliva describes not a significant person but a significant place: Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s beautiful modernist cathedral-in-progress ([link removed]) . And Philip Jenkins walks us through a profound sequence of poems, Horae Canonicae, from one of his own heroes of the faith ([link removed]) , poet W. H. Auden.
Scroll down for more great new content, like our video of the week with Ian Curran about the role of consciousness in philosophy ([link removed]) , David Gushee’s review of Keri Ladner’s book on the toxic legacy of Jerry Falwell ([link removed]) , and more.
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** Moltmann the teacher ([link removed])
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“He had the capacity to make each person with whom he interacted feel incredibly special.”
by Nancy Bedford
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** Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress ([link removed])
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“While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.”
by Alejandra Oliva
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** Praying the hours with W. H. Auden ([link removed])
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“The poem ‘Vespers’ offers a theme long cherished by Auden, which is the conflict between the utopian and the arcadian—between one who looks forward to an idealized future and another who is wholly devoted to a primeval past, to Eden.”
by Philip Jenkins
** In the Lectionary for July 7 (Ordinary 14B) ([link removed])
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The disciples want to know who Jesus is. The people from his hometown do not.
by Marilyn McEntyre
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** VIDEO: Ian Curran on panpsychism and Philip Goff’s Why? ([link removed])
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Scholar Ian Curran chats with Jon about Philip Goff’s book, panpsychism, various philosophical approaches to questions of consciousness, and more.
** Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy ([link removed])
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Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.
review by David P. Gushee
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