Jae Kim

: I came across what someone described as “the most iconic image in the history of college marketing.” …

: Darek Latta

: Finished reading: The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner 📚

: “When a feeble man, sprung from the dust, speaks in the name of God, we give the best proof of …

: Michael Silverblatt’s ten rules for reading.

: Great review by Brad East of The Vanishing Church: The Church does not exist to grease the wheels …

: My latest Sabbath read. A cracking book!

: A satisfying colour palette

: In love with “Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album” by Philip Larkin

: Illuminated “L” from 1368 (via Erin Zoutendam)

: “We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights …

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: Micah Mattix is starting a new literary quarterly, Portico.

: Miranda Hine

: Finished reading: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth 📚

: Daniel Mitsui: According to legend, Albertus Magnus had spent thirty years devising an oracular …

: An excellent piece by Trevin Wax on why translation choices matter and picking a translation of …

: Lviv, Ukraine on the first day of spring (via Christopher Miller)

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: A delightful post about an ever-changing logo.

: To keep my thinking fresh and my reading wide, I’m aiming to have four kinds of books on the …

: Finished reading: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 📚 Had a blast reading this …

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: Holiday reading: non-things and all things

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: Today’s view

: “In a word, reading partakes of the Sabbath because reading is non-utilitarian. Like poetry, …

: “The Art of healing the street” by French street artist Ememem

: Finished reading: A Web of Our Own Making by Antón Barba-Kay 📚 Absolutely brilliant treatment of the …

: “Perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the …

: “We are not called to turn the clock back to the 1950s, the robust missionary era of the eighteenth …

: Finished reading: The Theological Imagination by Judith Wolfe 📚

: Miles Smith on Russell Kirk’s tragic sense of life: Conservatives, Kirk knew, had to live …

: Finished reading: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare 📚

: “It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people …

: “One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.” – Robert Farrar Capon

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: Cheered and celebrated with our 3 y/o tonight because we finally met Aslan in The Lion, the Witch …

: Recent arrivals

: 🎧 Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

: Samuel James on writing (and thinking) in paragraphs: Writing styles are not neutral. They are …

: “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have …

: Emile Doumergue, Iconographie calvinienne: ouvrage dédié à l’Université de Genève

: “A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native …

: Currently reading

: “Children are indicators of our faith in the world itself, they are emissaries of optimism, …

: How John Steinbeck tricked his kids into reading great books.

: Austin Kleon on his weekly family pizza + movie night

: 🎧 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

: Finished reading: Working by Robert A. Caro 📚 Devouring my summer reads.

: “At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal …

: Finished reading: Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis 📚 Charming, obsessive.

: I’m loving micro.blog so far. It’s every bit as good as Alan Jacobs and Brad East made …

: I discovered only today that the actor Joe Keery (who plays the lovable Steve Harrington in Stranger …

: John Ehrett on Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth: This is the one great, brutal, bittersweet …

: My first book of 2026 – superb

: Tullio Pericoli, Umberto Eco

: “My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange …

: I’ve been inspired by What Dan Read to keep a reading log of my own. More here.

: My last book of 2025

: After dilly-dallying for years, I’ve finally gone ahead and made a microblog. This will serve …