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2013-03-18T12:45:05-04:00

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What to Do About Dualisms?

Last updated on: March 18, 2013 at 12:45 pm By Peter Blair

Like many American Christians, I grew up with a bunch of dualisms: we need to scorn earthly things for heavenly things; the body is perishable but the soul lasts; church is sacred in a way the world isn’t. In the past few years, I’ve read Christian writers like Marilynne Robinson and Wendell Berry who have made me question the necessity and even the wisdom of these kinds of dualisms. Robinson and Berry both have a very deep, incarnational sense... Read more

2013-03-14T13:40:40-04:00

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The Beast in Its Tracks

Last updated on: March 14, 2013 at 1:40 pm By Charles Clark

I found myself dreading the release of Josh Ritter’s latest album, which is strange, because he’s been a favorite of mine since I first heard The Animal Years back in 2006. His songwriting is truly superior, and he’s got a talented and versatile band supporting him. If Fare Forward were electing a poet laureate, he would be my nominee. His attitude toward Christianity is an especially powerful current under his music. His lyrics are saturated with biblical and theological language,... Read more

2025-09-08T12:33:12-04:00

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Art and Friendship

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 12:33 pm By Guest Contributor

When one thinks of art and its relation to ethics, one of the first things to come to mind is Plato’s treatment of poets and painters in the Republic. Neither group is beloved of the philosopher: the poets do too much to lead the passions astray and create false notions of divinity and the afterlife; the painters create objects which form the lowest rung on the Platonic chain of being. For Plato, immaterial forms are the untainted essences of things, while material instantiations of... Read more

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2013-03-12T14:28:33-04:00

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What to do with FOMO?

Last updated on: March 12, 2013 at 2:28 pm By Sarah Ngu

Throughout college and in the post-college years many people have told me to “try something new,” “take risks,” and “don’t leave any regrets.” The “good life” is pitched as hopping from job to job, traveling from country to country, in a who-knows-how-long Wanderjahr. The globalized world is our oyster. I have recently read A Journey Worth Taking, a book on meaning and calling by Pastor Charles Drew. The book showed me that behind the wanderlust-talk is a lot of FOMO (fear... Read more

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2013-03-11T10:55:09-04:00

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Minimalism is Good, but Grace Isn’t Cheap

Last updated on: March 11, 2013 at 10:55 am By Emily DeBaun

Minimalism is on the rise— but unless we build our relationships as much as we pare down out possessions, it will fail. Last week, two opinion pieces in the New York Times discussed materialism and the good life in American culture. In his article, “Living with Less. A lot Less,” Graham Hill explains how he overcame anxiety and found happiness by minimizing clutter in his life and concentrating on meaningful intangibles. Jessica Soffer’s article, “Staying Sane in Small Spaces,”... Read more

2013-03-09T11:12:38-05:00

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How Civil Religion Competes with Christianity

Last updated on: March 9, 2013 at 11:12 am By Cole Carnesecca

The Baptism of Constantine In prepping for a recent interview with Robert Bellah about his upcoming visit to Notre Dame, I spent some time thinking about one of Bellah’s most significant contributions to the study of religion: a nuanced understanding of civil religion. Bellah’s argument for considering “American Civil Religion” (our public religion expressed in the religious language of politics and national rituals) a “real” religion like any other draws on a long history of theorizing about the public... Read more

secular faiths

2013-03-07T08:37:16-05:00

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March Madness Fare Forward Edition

Last updated on: March 7, 2013 at 8:37 am By The Editors

Every March tons of Americans make brackets of all the competing teams in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship and vote for their favorite teams. This year Fare Forward decided to create some brackets of our own and invite readers to vote. But instead of basketball teams, we’ve paired off famous Christian thinkers, submitted by Fare Forward writers, into randomly-generated matches (above, see bigger image here). At Fare Forward, we “consider the future and the past with an equal mind.” We are inspired... Read more

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2013-03-06T10:59:33-05:00

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“The Bible” and Our Bland Theology

Last updated on: March 6, 2013 at 10:59 am By Matt Mellema

Bible documentaries tend to skew toward the fringe in order to get a high viewership: I have seen documentaries that argue that Ezekiel’s wheel was a UFO, and that Jesus performed his miracles using David Blaine-style street magic. So I was wary about the History Channel’s new, much-hyped mini-series “The Bible.” Shortly before the show premiered this past Sunday, however, I read a Christianity Today interview with the producers—Roma Downey from “Touched by an Angel” and her husband Mark Burnett,... Read more

2013-03-05T07:18:36-05:00

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Education: Outcomes > Values

Last updated on: March 5, 2013 at 7:18 am By Sarah Ngu

David Brooks’ recent NYT op-ed featured Brown professor Jin Li’s research on the comparative values of Eastern and Western cultural approaches to learning: Westerners tend to define learning cognitively while Asians tend to define it morally. Westerners tend to see learning as something people do in order to understand and master the external world. Asians tend to see learning as an arduous process they undertake in order to cultivate virtues inside the self. These “learning virtues” include “sincerity” (an authentic commitment... Read more

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2025-09-08T12:33:13-04:00

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Apollo and the Unmerciful Hermit

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 12:33 pm By Guest Contributor

[This delightful story is one of many given in Benedicta Ward’s translation of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, which makes excellent Lenten reading.] There was once a brother who was very eager to seek goodness. Being very disturbed by the demon of lust, he came to a hermit and told him about his thoughts. The hermit was inexperienced and when he heard all this, he was shocked, and said he was a wicked brother, unworthy of his monk’s habit because... Read more

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