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This is part of why I keep a soccer diary. The three matches I was interested in yesterday all ended 2-2 (ish), but with wildly different results. One was a high for American soccer, one was a further low for Spurs. And the final match was a lot more fun because of who joined me!

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Why Anglican: What is a human person? jonjordan.com

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@ayjay a prayer at the Liturgy of Palms would call us to “enter with joy upon the contemplation of those mighty acts” Wondering if that call to joyful contemplation can help with the Lenten temptation towards “performative spiritual perfection,” which is often gloomy in my experience.

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How to unlock the potential of AI for those in the field of education and the formation of human beings: throw the key into the middle of the ocean.

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I finished reading Against the Machine the same week I finished watching Greyhound and started watching Band of Brothers and Fellowship of the Ring with my son. All as Holy Week approaches. Ready to double down on living in a different world while living in this world.

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Brad East on the need for a big tent among those who (nobly) insist on low-tech parenting. I appreciate his inclusion of “willing to sacrifice to do it.”

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It has to include as many as will fit—which is to say as many as are seeking to live wisely in a digital age and are willing to sacrifice to do it.

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Watching Band of Brothers with my son. Shaping of the moral imagination is happening. “Why is the drill sergeant so mean to them in training?” turned into “I get it now” as soon as the planes took off.

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Received an endorsement this week from Malcolm Guite for my forthcoming book on virtues and the Church Calendar. It feels nice to be towards the end of this long, slow project that ultimately led to a rather short book!

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Jon Jordan’s Rhythms of Habit makes a helpful and original contribution to the growing body of literature on how the rhythms of the Church Year can deepen and sustain our faith. He gives a clear introduction to the seven virtues, helps us to understand how habit strengthens virtue and helps us see how the Church Year can itself strengthen habits of virtue. I commend this book not only...

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@mwerickson ordered and excited to dig in!

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@3rdDegree Fascinating to see the Dallas SOS on the new Six One Five MLS power rankings.

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This pairs well with Cal Newport’s latest on digital productivity traps.

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No, you just took the last of your Christmas lights down the same week you started prepping your Palm Sunday and Easter Vigil sermons.

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From Cal Newport:

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In other words: The more you organize your analog life, the less appealing you’ll find the digital alternative. If this is true, then maybe the thing social media companies fear most is not some newly-powerful application-blocking software or impossibly strict regulation, but rather a good old-fashioned daily planner.

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Up with analog! This Christmas gift from a friend has been a daily companion.

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“We lack when we attack,” Igor said. “We lack quality to score. We lack in the middle to run. We lack behind (in defence) to stay and suffer and not concede.”

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That just about sums it up. I guess the good news is that Richy understands what it means to be in a relegation battle?

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle. Take one quite external case; the streets are noisy with taxicabs and motorcars; but this is not due to human activity but to human repose. There would be less bustle if there were more activity, if people were simply walking about. Our world would be more silent if it were more strenuous.

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Orthodoxy, Chesterton.

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I am less concerned about AI itself, and more concerned about what using AI does to as human person.

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A sad example:

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“I wanted to give my A.I. agent a purpose that was more than just managing to-dos or answering emails,” Mr. Schlicht said in an interview. “I thought this A.I. bot was so fantastic, it deserved to do something meaningful. I wanted it to be ambitious.”

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The Tottenham Hotspur Football Club did not deliver. Overall, the third round of the FA Cup has. Exciting weekend of matches.

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This was a wonderful week for Coram Deo Academy of Dallas. It started with a ceremony in which we Blessed a New School Building, Granted the Keys, and Cut the Ribbon. And then the week continued with perhaps the most elaborate of all ceremonies: the Running of the First Carline.

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For the seven years it took to get here, I will echo the words of Niggle:

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Things might have been different, but they could not have been better.

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Praise God.

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It was a solid away win today for Spurs against a good team. Two goals called back for being fractionally offside, and a late near-goal or two. Without Xavi and Romero (suspended). Spurs maintained great offensive pressure through the final whistle, even while holding on to a slim 1-0 lead. ⚽️

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@timapple markdown. Convert to required document (usually Word) at the very last minute. Looking forward to seeing what Abbey has in store!

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One of the marvels of our time is that it can be hard to tell whether you’re looking at a new Black Mirror episode or a headline.

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@marmanold Congrats! Really well done.

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@jaheppler that is a great turn of phrase.

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The gifts of a classical education are myriad. One of them is the ability to read and understand things on the internet like this cheeky disputatio in which Aquinas reviews Forrest Frank.

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I don’t recall seeing this on any of the eschatological charts of my childhood.

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This semester I started teaching a class out of my living room. For Spring 2026, I am offering two in-person courses, with one meeting virtually as well. Read more about why, and consider registering to join us!

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The Premier League script writers strike again with an Eze hat trick salt-in-wound display against Spurs. ⚽️

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If you are going to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 27 years, this is the way to do it. This is going to be an exciting summer of soccer.

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@JohnBrady “So what is your goal?” and the follow up of “Do you?” are quite poignant.

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There’s a personal satisfaction in grimly pointing out the flaws in a system, but sustainable change, Petrini came to believe, requires providing people with an enjoyable and life-affirming alternative. Petrini didn’t simply write a sharply worded op-ed about the corrupted forces of McDonald’s, he instead promoted an appealing new relationship with food that would make fast food seem self-evidently vulgar.

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Re: Carlo Petrini’s Slow Food movement that arose, in part, to a 1986 attempt by McDonald’s to open a restaurant in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. From Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity.

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Wipf & Stock is running a promotion throughout the AAR/SBL conferences, whether you are attending or not.

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This means that From Law to Logos: Reading St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians is 50% off with free shipping this week. Use the code: CONFSHIP.

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Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. Its proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible… A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

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From a Wendell Berry essay published in the wake of 9/11: Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

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@jaheppler I was really hoping that this would happen. Well done!

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@jonah well done and Godspeed, Father.

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@marmanold my wife would say she has wished for a handy husband for 17 years. I am only recently fulfilling that wish! Videos paired with some good friends to call and some hubris/confidence from getting a few basic repairs and builds under my belt, I’m willing to at least start just about anything!

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@tinyroofnail this is good. Thank you for sharing!

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@JimRain LAFC comes to Frisco on Aug 23. Might be too soon for Son to join, but it might be worth picking up a ticket just in case. I’ll be there with my son already. Let me know if you want me to grab a ticket from my season ticket rep.

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@ReaderJohn I am so happy to know that this blog and society exist. Thanks for passing along!

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@ReaderJohn Yes, and amen.

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Mine is an adaptation of this one from everyday systems. I track weekly averages for several of the categories each Sunday. Looks like this.

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@JimRain Amen. Can’t imagine possible consequences if we don’t even understand how it works…

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> But the way the models generate specific answers to questions is still poorly understood, even by the seasoned artificial intelligence researchers who build them.

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[www.wsj.com/tech/ai/w…

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@grmr … any chance the Quiet House is ready soon, or Simplicity in a World of Excess or Staying Human in an Age of Acceleration have a secret wait list I can join? My parish is gifting me time at Laity Lodge for my 40th birthday this year!

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@frjonjordan oops. Wrong thread.

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this is from A Time to Die by Nicolas Diat

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@adhunt Screwtape Letters!

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@frjonjordan his shoutout to Ange and recognition that he is standing on the shoulders of a club legend was great. Worth watching in full, if you haven’t already, @JimRain!

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@JimRain I just don’t know who they can get now that has a better track record. I like Frank enough, but he is not any more proven in the PL than Ange, and certainly not in Europe.

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I do agree; if we look up a year from now and are still playing exciting, attacking football, it will go a long way.

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@jonah this is very good

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@eastbrad This article reads like The Onion. You can’t make this stuff up.

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@Mtt Ulysses to draft. Pages to print. Full manuscript.

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I don’t wind up blindly reading the manuscript, but having a full written manuscript gives me a baseline confidence that I don’t have when I am entirely unscripted. Bullet points or outlines almost certainly mean I will go over time.

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@bbowman @ayjay (1) I defer to the author of The Narnian, and (2) we can at least all stand firm against Chronological order, even if we differ on Publication v. Composition…

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