Tag: joseph minich
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The Heritage-Consuming World Of Modernity
Nietzsche famously proclaimed (or more accurately, prophesied) the death of God, and while Christians would contend that such news has been greatly exaggerated (to quote Mark Twain), most would agree that society is following Nietzsche’s prophecy in practice. Modern society certainly seems to be functioning as if God is absent. We typically see this as…
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Joseph Minich On Generous Hospitality
“Particularly difficult in our own context, is the commitment to a generous hospitality – a difficult-to-achieve lifestyle that leaves space for others to interfere and that contains the boldness to interfere in the lives of others. These sorts of encounters are artificially replaced in our era by work relationships, social media, and so on. But…
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The Myth Of Unending Progress
The last 100 years have seen more technological, medical, and scientific advancements than probably all of the prior centuries of human civilization combined. In less than 150 years, we went from most people traveling on animals to being able to fly thousands of people across the oceans each day and even land people on the…