On May 21, 2005, David Foster Wallace gave the a commencement speech at Kenyon College. He was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. This month the above video was produced with the core of that speech, and it has now gone viral on the internet.
I’ve asked people what the advertisement (left) means.[Firstly: everyone who sees this in a newspaper or magazine realises it’s an advertisement]. They all realise that Adrienne Winkelmann is a brand of clothing; that this brand is available in Shop 26, The Chancery Auckland; that this brand will be available in store now for winter 2013;
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Pope Francis puts on a medallion with an icon of the Virgin Mary and child given to him by Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt’s Pope Tawadros II when they exchanged gifts during their private audience in the pontiff’s library, at the Vatican, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Andreas Solaro, pool) It is never just a
I want to share an email I received with you. But first some reflections around the 2013 NZ Lectionary publication. Let’s not get too hassled that it incorrectly put Daylight Saving on Easter Day. There was no real problem with having people turn up an hour early at church and having their own personal Easter
For all those who use the word “liturgy” and “liturgical” to mean planned, shared, structured common worship – as if all community worship doesn’t generally follow a structure…
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In the Southern Hemisphere this is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Christians cannot even get united enough to have a single agreed week when they pray for Christian unity! The Northern Hemisphere has a different week. The Western experiment in confessional Christianity has obviously failed. For every belief there are people in favour
The Day of Pentecost concludes the Easter Season – it is the culmination of the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season. The first Sunday after Easter is Trinity Sunday! Monday May 20 is the Monday in the 7th Week in Ordinary Time. We left off counting the weeks in Ordinary Time at the 5th
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This is the fourth in a series on liturgy and law. The first is here. The second is here. The third is here. I am part of a church which has a culture of breaking our liturgical agreements (one exception: beware if you follow this culture in relation to gays – but that’s another story).
