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The Sword & the Family
Jesus on the impossible paradoxes of family life
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The Brilliant Idiot and the Wise Fool
Aphorisms on two ways of life
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A blow to the head, #2
What I'm reading: Liu Jiakun edition
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Our World is Run by Brilliant Idiots
We need to learn the wisdom of Holy Fools
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A Blow to the Head, vol. 1
What I'm Reading: Katherine Rundell edition. What are you reading?
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The story of the foolish wiseman
The power of paradox in a black-and-white world
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Strategic anti-strategery
How to be unreasonable & irrational. Dangerous, too.
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The spirit of authority
Using power to empower others—even those who betray us
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The widow's might
Be the parable you want to see in the world
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Silence, focus, retreat
A new title for the newsletter—but the same enduring themes
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A few workers in a world of scale
Poetry vs. the machinery of industrial agriculture
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The Enduring Retreat
The Enduring Retreat
Skeptical Christian humanism, a balm for our credulous, cynical, anti-human age. Plus short essays on books, music, film, art, architecture, et cetera.
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