Five songs for fall, including Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” and Yo La Tengo’s “Autumn Sweater” after the jump:
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Posted in TCC Playlist | Under Autumn, Ella Fitzgerald, Fall, Neil Young, Songs for Autumn, TCC Playlist, The Kinks, White Stripes, Yo La Tengo |
10.30Misc: Boy Wanders onto Stage to Hang Out With Pope Francis
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Under Children, Love, Pope Francis, Year of Faith
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Watch what happened when a little boy decided he wanted to be Pope Francis’ helper at the celebration of the Year of Faith. Buzzfeed has the story in pictures here: Boy Wanders onto Stage to Hang Out With Pope Francis
Read More10.30Misc: The Passion of Flannery O’Connor
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Under A Good Man is Hard to Find, A Prayer Journal, Art, Books, Flannery O'Connor, Irony, Journal, Misc: Article, TCC: Reads
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James Parker writes for The Atlantic about how the Prayer Journal of Flannery O’Connor sheds more light on her writing. He writes, “O’Connor’s was not the shifty, reactive, and merely local variety that passes for irony today: sitcom irony, skinny-jeans irony. It was vertical and biblical: the irony by which the mighty are lowered, the humble exalted, and the savior dies on a cross.” Read it here: The Passion of Flannery O’Connor
10.30TCC Reads: A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Under A Time To Keep Silence, Benedictines, Cistercian, Meditation, Memoir, Monasteries, Monks, Silence, TCC: Reads, Trappist, Travel, Vocation
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TCC’s own Anna Keating recommends A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Read her review after the jump:
10.29Going on: Why a Theologian Can Never Retire
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Under Aging, Community, Misc: Article, Retirement, Stanley Hauerwas, Teaching, Theologian, Theology, Writing
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After teaching Theology at Notre Dame and Duke for 45 years, Stanley Hauerwas is retiring, and yet, he explains, a theologian can never really retire. “The work of theology is never really done. That is good news. The work of theology can never be done alone. That is even better news.” Read the whole thing at Religion and Ethics here: Going on: Why a Theologian Can Never Retire
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