Tensegrities

This definitely looks to be worth following!

I like Eric’s subject line “FFR” — which means “for future reference.” So here’s one I want to return to: research from AERA on digital identities.

Gary Wills has a fascinating piece in the New York Review of Books on parallels between Wright’s relationship with Obama, and John Brown’s relationship with Lincoln, as reflected in their speeches.

One of the interesting things I discovered when I got to Luther, was that while a number of my friends and colleagues at BC read science fiction, most of my colleagues at Luther preferred mysteries. For a while I tried to figure out if there was anything substantial about this difference, but I finally concluded it was simply coincidence. Still, this blog post, which notes that “the astonishing thing is that science fiction and fantasy are absolutely awash in theological speculation…” reminds me of that early conjecture. I wonder what the writer would think is at the heart of mysteries?

For myself, I tend to think that sci fi thrives on raising questions, on speculation, while mystery thrives on puzzles with discernible answers. You may not figure out the answer until the end, but the conceit of the mystery is that it WILL be revealed. Maybe there’s a thread there, something distinctive about the analogical imagination of Catholicism, and the dialectical imagination of Lutheranism?

Transcript and video here.