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Two quotations on time for the twelfth day of Christmas: First, St. Augustine’s sermon 185: Rise, you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you (Eph 5:14). For you, I repeat, God became man. You would have died for eternity, unless he had been born in time. You would never be set free from the flesh of sin, unless he had …

Five Things (22 December 2025): This will hopefully be the first of many “Five Things” posts. I plan to use them to highlight interesting things that I’ve read or reckoned with over the preceding week. Without further preamble, my first two things belong to a similar category: the sort of biblical scholarship (my favorite sort, …

In this post, Alan Jacobs concludes with an insightful and concise hierarchy of technological tools: Paper in preference to digital; flat files in preference to databases; cross-platform tools in preference to one-platform tools. This is the only way. I can’t speak for him, but behind this …

Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots emphasizes that true knowledge is tied to love, raising the question of how to foster this love in ourselves and our students.