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James K. A. Smith accompanies the church father on a journey through the human heart.
Mike Cosper
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Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
is an American classic. It is easily (and often) parodied for its
freewheeling style, but it is also full of magical sentences and
encapsulations of life in postwar America. At its heart, the book is
about longing: for transcendence, for love, for experience, for a sense
of place and belonging. And, more deeply, for a sense of self.
In
one revelatory scene, Kerouac writes, “I woke up as the sun was
reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the ...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Is Life Unsatisfying?
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