Steven Rodriguez

I want the high schoolers to have some images and aesthetic values in their head before they read about Lizzie seeing Pemberly for the first time.

I want to chase the most interesting parts of Jane Austen (for me) for this high school Austen reading group.

So I think I might finally tackle some of Gilpin's aesthetic theory of the picturesque and study some representative landscape paintings.

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I am getting SO excited to preach again in a few weeks.

I want to compose three or four settings of the same Psalm, each of them engaging and illuminating a different aspect of the Psalm.

very yes

Does anyone know if William Cavanaugh has written anything anywhere since Torture and Eucharist where he amends or updates his positions? A sort of midlife reappraisal of the project of his youth?

I have not read any Cavanaugh since reading Radner's takedown of his project in A Brutal Unity shortly after that book came out in 2012. So much has happened since then!

First thing I forgot about Cavanaugh's Torture and Eucharist: It's the published version of his dissertation written under Hauerwas. So, yes, it's Catholic, but it's also postliberal straight from the source

lolllll

happy to help

I have obtained a copy of Cavanaugh's Torture and Eucharist, and I will now be tweeting about it in between the tweets about rereading Jane Austen. Sorry it's gonna be a very jarring mix

I was one of 11 Barthians running amok in the RCA (estimated population)

yes I am secretly Dutch

Yes I’m shareable

Some exciting news: I've got an upcoming church music gig and I am going to try to compose a new piece for the occasion

Is she a tasteless fool, lacking all discretion? Yes. Does she try to manipulate those around her? Yes. Does she act terribly toward her own children at times? Yes. Are her broader beliefs and values seemingly correct? Also yes.

I'm noticing this time reading Pride & Prejudice that Mrs. Bennet is actually right a lot of the time?

➡️She's right to criticize Darcy for looking down on country folk
➡️She's right to complain that the system of entailment is wrong
➡️She correctly announces the plot of the novel

Why??

LOLLLLLL

I’m rereading them to prepare for the convo and I have THOUGHTS.

BUT: What are some things that you love or hate about the Canons of Dort? Most important things to point out either positively or negatively?

A friend who is not coming from the Reformed tradition wants to talk about the Canons of Dort over beers, which, it must be said, is an embarrassingly cliche Reformed thing for me to do

welp I can't find my copy of History of Sexuality I so this side quest was a FAIL

it's time for me to dip back into my second favorite postmodern con man and charlatan! (Michel Foucault)

Before anyone can reply, another friend walks in and I beckon her over, shouting, “They’ve got a like new copy of Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad! You gotta get it!” The librarian looks at me, amused

I walk into a local library and there in the used book sale pile is a like new copy of Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad, for 50¢!? I start texting friends manically asking if anyone wants it.

I had forgotten how much time people spend in Pride and Prejudice sitting around talking about books and personal libraries (you know i love this)

We'll see if my heavily-Wendell-Berry-influenced interpretation of Pride and Prejudice from the last time I read it over a decade ago still holds up

I want all of Julian’s words back!! ❤️

Every time I think about this sculpture, I think about the fact that J. G. Hamann was not included in this pile of Best German Books Ever and it sort of invalidates the whole sculpture for me

The question, then, is where exactly does the word sit for Austen? Does she use the word in its fully hollowed out husk form, “fashionable” as mere artifice and trend? Why then is the value of “fashion” and being “fashionable” important for Darcy, the weightiest character in the novel?