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As kingfishers catch fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the power of particularity
Aug 12
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Mark Casper
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June 2025
A literary summer reading guide
It's time to read great books over the summer again.
Jun 19
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Mark Casper
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May 2025
Make badly and suffer gladly
On recovering our creative calling, being an amateur, and Mako Fujimura's 'Theology of Making'
May 28
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Mark Casper
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April 2025
The Good Life Cannot Be Optimized
Secular monks on the precipice of burnout
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March 2025
Living a hidden life
Embracing obscurity, living coram Deo, and pursuing "true success" with Beth March
Mar 19
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Mark Casper
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February 2025
The books I read to my son last year
The beginning of a grand, literary adventure
Feb 27
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Mark Casper
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Healing the bright wound
On the "uselessness" and indispensability of art, cracking the Machine's cage, Dead Poets Society, and being smote by beauty.
Feb 20
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Mark Casper
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Improving ourselves to death (or why you should stop reading self-help books)
On living in a self-improvement culture, secular monks, utilitarian pragmatism, and the novel in the workplace
Feb 7
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Mark Casper
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Improving ourselves to death (or why you should stop reading self-help books)
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January 2025
Why (and how) to plan your reading in 2025
Reading as stewardship, a simple reading strategy, and some books I hope to read this year
Jan 24
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Mark Casper
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My Favorite Books from 2024
It was a strange, strange reading year indeed
Jan 16
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Mark Casper
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Welcome to The Kingswood
Pursuing the life we long for through great books, poetry, art, film, theology, and more.
Jan 9
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Mark Casper
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June 2023
Coming soon...The Kingswood
A brief note
Jun 1, 2023
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Mark Casper
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