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2022-09-12T21:20:55-05:00

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From His Own Fullness All He Takes Away

Last updated on: September 12, 2022 at 9:20 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

We were all deprived of the Way of Affirmation for over two years - the celebration of God and creation's goodness through community and art and theater and feasting - and the implications are going to be generational. We may yet get to something beautiful where we're going, and Jesus may yet use all this, but we don't get back the same things we lost, not even out of his fullness. Read more

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We’re Just In It for the Money

Last updated on: August 4, 2022 at 8:17 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Here was an attempt to truly infuse liberal arts thinking throughout the curriculum and bring different disciplines in contact with each other. Right. Right? Read more

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Zumba Epiphany

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 7:44 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

What does this dream mean? I have no idea. But I can tell you that for 30 blissful seconds in the middle of a domesticated Zumba class, 43 years after I had the dream, I was enacting it. Read more

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Not Made for the Harbo(u)r

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 7:44 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

This post is just a quick announcement: I love this song, I love this cartoon video for this song, and you can sing it at your church. Read more about it and download lyrics and chords and things here. It’s hard to write good, worshipful songs about work. I’ve long been a fan of the Work Songs album by the Porter’s Gate and Among the Thorns by Cardiphonia, and this belongs on the same list.    Read more

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How to Succeed as an Influencer Without Really Trying

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 7:46 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Recently I had someone ask me how an academic could get started writing for a popular audience. This is something I have backed into doing by accident over the past 20 years. (Imagine how much further ahead of me any of you will be if you do it on purpose!) Here's an edited version of some pointers I gave them. Read more

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For Southerners, To Explain Why

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 7:46 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Place is part of vocation. I am from the Midwest, but I live in the South. Read more

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Catalogue of Ships

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 7:46 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

The books tell you the boats will come back, after the brief turbulence of sea; a little charting of new courses is only to be expected in the wind. Read more

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From Epiphany Me to Advent Me

Last updated on: January 24, 2022 at 9:15 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

I'm afraid I left you to untangle the lights. Read more

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Things the 2021 Supply Chain Disruptions Have Kept Me From Buying, A Partial List

Last updated on: December 17, 2021 at 11:24 am   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Men’s Nunn Bush shoes, wide width Tic Tacs Peppermints Altoids (Seriously, what is it with hard minty candy?) Raisin bran Beetlejuice costume Christmas stocking hooks Christmas lights that don’t twinkle Avatar comic book Dish soap Nongshim soup Wheel of Time flag Socks Pasta (For some more musings on the supply chain, see: Late Capitalism and the Chromebook Charger That Time I Accidentally Became a Prophet)       Read more

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2021-11-01T21:58:32-05:00

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Candy, WandaVision, Community, and Grace

Last updated on: November 1, 2021 at 9:58 pm   By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

At this particular thin place we meet so many things, but one of them is the horror that, as Beetlejuice reminds us, no one gets out of this alive. Read more

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