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<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0307_perpetua-felicity/">Perpetua, Felicity, &amp; the Roman empire</a></h1>
<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0710_jerusalem-bibles/">The New Jerusalem Bible &amp; the Revised New Jerusalem Bible, compared</a></h1>
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<div class="date"><h5>Mar 07, 2024</h5></div>
<div class="date"><h5>Jul 10, 2024</h5></div>

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Today, on the feast of Saints Perpetua &amp; Felicity, I thought about their martyrdom. The account of their martyrdom&mdash;most of which is written by Perpetua herself&mdash;is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua &amp; Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua&rsquo;s Passion:
In 1943, Pope Pius XII promulgated Divino afflante Spiritu, encouraging the translation of the Bible on the basis of original Hebrew &amp; Greek texts. Prior to Divino afflante Spiritu the Latin Vulgate had served as the textual basis for Catholic translations of the Bible; this new directive from the pope inaugurated the modern era of Catholic biblical scholarship.
The French Dominicans at the École Biblique in Jerusalem answered the call, publishing a French translation of the Bible&mdash;La Bible de Jérusalem&mdash;in 1956.

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<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/">First things first</a></h1>
<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0310_oscars/">Best Picture nominees, ranked</a></h1>
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<div class="date"><h5>Jan 15, 2024</h5></div>
<div class="date"><h5>Mar 10, 2024</h5></div>

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One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today&mdash;even to students who have some religious background&mdash;is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church&rsquo;s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community&rsquo;s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers.
Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day.
10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper&rsquo;s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances.

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<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/">The pattern &amp; prototype of all sin</a></h1>
<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0307_perpetua-felicity/">Perpetua, Felicity, &amp; the Roman empire</a></h1>
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<div class="date"><h5>Jan 13, 2024</h5></div>
<div class="date"><h5>Mar 07, 2024</h5></div>

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In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny &amp; his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls &ldquo;the pattern &amp; prototype of all sin.&rdquo; (Spoilers follow.)
Danny &amp; Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old &amp; working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications.
Today, on the feast of Saints Perpetua &amp; Felicity, I thought about their martyrdom. The account of their martyrdom&mdash;most of which is written by Perpetua herself&mdash;is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua &amp; Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua&rsquo;s Passion:

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<h1><a href="/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/">Top tens in 2023</a></h1>
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<div class="date"><h5>Dec 31, 2023</h5></div>
<div class="date"><h5>Jan 15, 2024</h5></div>

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Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them:
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, &amp; Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims &amp; the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, &amp; Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.
One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today&mdash;even to students who have some religious background&mdash;is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church&rsquo;s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community&rsquo;s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers.

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<h1><a href="/posts/2023/1231_logbook/">Logbook—December 2023</a></h1>
<h1><a href="/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/">The pattern &amp; prototype of all sin</a></h1>
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<div class="date"><h5>Dec 31, 2023</h5></div>
<div class="date"><h5>Jan 13, 2024</h5></div>

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In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory &amp; Swimming in the Dark &amp; Silence: A Novel &amp; Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure &amp; Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; &amp; watched The Grapes of Wrath &amp; May December &amp; The Holdovers &amp; The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes &amp; Napoleon &amp; The Muppets Christmas Carol &amp; Home Alone &amp; Poor Things &amp; It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life &amp; Saltburn &amp; The Color Purple (2023).
In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny &amp; his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls &ldquo;the pattern &amp; prototype of all sin.&rdquo; (Spoilers follow.)
Danny &amp; Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old &amp; working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications.

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<h1><a href="/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/">Frequent &amp; spontaneous blessing</a></h1>
<h1><a href="/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/">Top tens in 2023</a></h1>
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Fiducia supplicans presents itself as &ldquo;an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening &amp; enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings&rdquo; (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this &ldquo;innovation&rdquo; might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I&rsquo;d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself &amp; what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons &amp; couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church&rsquo;s expectations, stand in need of God&rsquo;s love &amp; mercy, &amp; so spontaneous, frequent, &amp; abundant blessing of all persons &amp; couples ought to be a regular feature of the church&rsquo;s life as &ldquo;sacrament of God&rsquo;s infinite love&rdquo; (§43).
Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them:
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, &amp; Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims &amp; the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, &amp; Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.

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<h1><a href="/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/">Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them?</a></h1>
<h1><a href="/posts/2023/1231_logbook/">Logbook—December 2023</a></h1>
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Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications.
[Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson&rsquo;s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students.
Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified&mdash;explicitly or not&mdash;by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts.
In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory &amp; Swimming in the Dark &amp; Silence: A Novel &amp; Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure &amp; Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; &amp; watched The Grapes of Wrath &amp; May December &amp; The Holdovers &amp; The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes &amp; Napoleon &amp; The Muppets Christmas Carol &amp; Home Alone &amp; Poor Things &amp; It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life &amp; Saltburn &amp; The Color Purple (2023).

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