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kellinatorToday at work I was sent to the divinity library to try and track down a book review of a prof's latest book.
It's a good thing I don't work there or General, because I'd never get anything done. I got really caught up in the magazine the review was in, The Christian Century.
I don't tend to read much Christian-oriented stuff because as one writer in The Christian Century pointed out, it's propaganda, not art or literature. But this magazine is terrific. It's thoughtful and accessible on a wide range of topics, including current events, politics, philosophy, and other religions. I would say it's geared toward the progressive Christian, but if you're Christian and feel you're not represented by the Religious Right (and even if you are), I highly recommend it.
http://www.christiancentury.org
And here's the point...
I love to read. To learn. About all sorts of stuff. I love nonfiction as well as fiction (in fact, several of my very favorite books are nonfiction), intellectual stuff as well as trash.
I lost so much of myself in the depression that started in the summer of '99 and only intensified during grad school. One of the main things was my intellectual curiosity. I rarely did my homework the last semester; by last winter I barely had the attention span to read anything longer than a magazine article.
It's coming back. I'm thinking again. I'm hungering for knowledge of just random shit and satisfying that hunger -- on my own -- in a way grad school never did. I feel so alive.
Welcome home, brain. I missed you.
It's a good thing I don't work there or General, because I'd never get anything done. I got really caught up in the magazine the review was in, The Christian Century.
I don't tend to read much Christian-oriented stuff because as one writer in The Christian Century pointed out, it's propaganda, not art or literature. But this magazine is terrific. It's thoughtful and accessible on a wide range of topics, including current events, politics, philosophy, and other religions. I would say it's geared toward the progressive Christian, but if you're Christian and feel you're not represented by the Religious Right (and even if you are), I highly recommend it.
http://www.christiancentury.org
And here's the point...
I love to read. To learn. About all sorts of stuff. I love nonfiction as well as fiction (in fact, several of my very favorite books are nonfiction), intellectual stuff as well as trash.
I lost so much of myself in the depression that started in the summer of '99 and only intensified during grad school. One of the main things was my intellectual curiosity. I rarely did my homework the last semester; by last winter I barely had the attention span to read anything longer than a magazine article.
It's coming back. I'm thinking again. I'm hungering for knowledge of just random shit and satisfying that hunger -- on my own -- in a way grad school never did. I feel so alive.
Welcome home, brain. I missed you.
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Date: 2002-10-18 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-18 07:57 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-10-25 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-18 10:37 pm (UTC)Here's the way I look at it. You stop learning, you stop growing...and start dying. Life is a journey of knowledge as much as anything else, and life is far too short not to try to take in as much as we can in the time we have. Being static, fixed, and unchanging isn't being alive.
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Date: 2002-10-19 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-19 02:38 pm (UTC)YES!
Date: 2002-10-21 05:02 am (UTC)So much so that I wish I could go to grad school because I feel the hunger returning.