Kurt Knecht
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(Re)reading Justin Martyr
I'm reading some Justin Martyr again. He was the Father with the most unfortunate last name. ("What, mom?! I'm called Martyr, and I'm going to be a martyr?! I'll be a laughing stock!" - Thanks Eddie Izzard.) To me, Justin has always been a complicated writer, and I...
Re-visiting J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 2
In the middle of Lent, I had the chance to re-visit J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2 which I used as a prelude for our Palm Sunday service at St. Paul's KCMO. It was a piece I had learned in my late teens, and I wanted to visit it again to see how much I had changed. I...
Iris Murdoch on Art
I'm still working my way through an Iris Murdoch reader. She has to be one of the clearest and most astute systematic thinkers of the 20th century. It's just an amazing mind. This passage is lengthy, but worth the read. She has been sailing twixt the Scylla of Kantian...
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