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Now in Korean translation
Want to live on (escape to) another planet? I understand the impulse! Here’s a profound and important idea from my current read: “This Sacred Life”, by philosopher & writer Norman Wirzba @nwirzba.bsky.social whose many books I have found deeply thoughtful and moving.
#goodbooks
#transhumanism
And here it is in the flesh! @dukedivinity.bsky.social
Available now at Wipf & Stock publishers
“In his magnificent new book, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social shows how, when it comes to rivers, our purportedly rational minds have become impounded, even stagnant.”
– review by @nwirzba.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/books/river-...
"Wirzba’s book finds its strength in its lack of naivete." —Englewood Review of Books on Love's Braided Dance, now 50% off at yalebooks.com.
"Hope ... is a scarce commodity, but under Wirzba’s rubric, hope is neither scarce nor a commodity, as long as we understand what it truly is, and are willing to cultivate it." My review of @nwirzba.bsky.social's *Love's Braided Dance*:
englewoodreview.org/norman-wirzb... @erbks.bsky.social
Welcoming @nwirzba.bsky.social to First Presbyterian Church, New Bern. What a good day!
Hope and optimism are not the same thing. In fact, optimism often works against hope because it does bot sufficiently acknowledge or protest against the injustices that currently degrade and destroy life. As the literary and cultural critic Terry Eagleton has persuasively argued, optimists tend to be rather conservative in their outlook and all too accepting of the status quo. They put their trust in the “essential soundness of the present” and do not have the creativity or energy to work for a more praiseworthy future. There can be a fundamental blindness, even dishonesty, in the cheery optimist’s outlook because it dies not properly name or adequately account for the injustices of the past or present.
What a refreshing passage. I have known this all my life, but am constantly chivvied for not buying into the American cult of optimism.
From Norman Wirzba, Love’s Braided Dance
Congratulations to @nwirzba.bsky.social for this well-deserved award celebrating his wonderful book, Love’s Braided Dance: Hope in a Time of Crisis.
i can’t find the two cities podcast on here but this interview w @nwirzba.bsky.social was excellent, i recommend!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Mark your calendars! @dukedivinity.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social kenan.ethics.duke.edu/event/loves-...
On a NEW EPISODE of the Commonweal podcast, @nwirzba.bsky.social explains why hope is not something we can have, but an action we need to perform.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/hope...
Really enjoyed this conversation with @commonweal.bsky.social @dukedivinity.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/hope...
Great to hear from you Paul!
That would be grand. I’ll let you know the next time I am in your place in the world.
So this latest by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is simply magnificent!
Happening now at the @yalepress.bsky.social booth at the SBL/AAR meeting
Hard at work
This is what I have been up to lately @yalepress.bsky.social
