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A medievalist does faith, tech, and popular culture

Month: December 2015

Written by Mark BruceDecember 31, 2015September 16, 2018

On the (Self-) Coddling of Christian Universities

A few weeks ago Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, released an open letter addressed to his university’s student body. In the letter, Piper appeared to take on the issue of “victimization” culture, railing against a student who apparently objected to the content of a sermon at one of OKU’s chapel services. A number […]

Written by Mark BruceDecember 25, 2015December 25, 2015

Divine Love and the Cloud of Unknowing, Part Three

In which St. Augustine and a medieval mystic show us how it’s done, and we realize John Lennon was plagiarizing both of them… I ended the previous part of this meditation on this note: if we want to be in communion, fully, with God, and know that what we’re communing with is God and not something […]

Written by Mark BruceDecember 24, 2015December 25, 2015

Divine Love and the Cloud of Unknowing: An Advent Meditation, Part Two

In which we do the Strange Thing of talking about relating to God by means of a crazy Scottish love poem. I have to confess I actually like Advent more than I like Christmas. Christmas itself, at least in my own Midwestern, American, middle-class culture has been so taken over by a combination of commercialism […]

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