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Slow reading

Dr. John Friend and his iPad, after Michael Dahl by Mike Licht. CC Some rights reserved. Two weeks ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about an unusual sort of book club. The members of this club … Continue reading

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Always a beginner

One of my quote-a-day subscriptions recently sent this, from Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969, p. 37): “We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be … Continue reading

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