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The Sickness Unto Death
on Kierkegaard and despair
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Ode to a Christmas Hymn
This Sunday I attended a Christmas party hosted by my friends Casper and Sean. In their humble Brooklyn apartment, I sang with a rather large group 62 pages of Christmas hymns. Seasonally appropriate, yes, but it was nonetheless a departure for me from my Grinchy abstention from all things Christmas.
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What Christians Can Learn from Satanists
on colonialism, Christendom, and liberation theology
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I Am Done Calling God Father
1. There is a very old idea that God as creator is God the father. We must rid ourselves of all the vestiges of this idea. Thanks for reading Jack’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. 2. Along with the idea of God
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Music for the Apocalypse
My Christian Century article!
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Against Stoicism
on empire, despair, and changing our circumstances
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Grieving in Community: Remarks from Despair Sanctuary
“And still men and women drag out their lives in misery The nightmare continues” These are lyrics from the Stoke-on-trent hardcore punk band Discharge, recorded in 1982. They were written in reference to people whose lives were ruined by war. Thanks for reading Jack’s Substack! Subscribe for free to
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Jeremiah, James Baldwin, and Despair
When I was 19 I took a class on the biblical prophets and studied the prophet Jeremiah. I was drawn to Jeremiah because of his reputation as “the weeping prophet.” The book bearing his name contains a litany of personal laments. Jeremiah was unique because of the way he wrestled