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2017

How to Listen to a Story

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How to Listen to a Story

Tips from Brian Brown from the Anselm Society's Storytelling night.

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Ghosts of Christmas

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Ghosts of Christmas

Charles Dickens, a journalist, and a future father reflect on truth, imagination, and Christmas.

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Heroes Sing On in the Face of Dragons

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Heroes Sing On in the Face of Dragons

Anselm director Brian Brown recently wrote a letter to the Anselm leadership team, which he gave permission to the Cultivating Project to publish.

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Restringing a Guitar

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Restringing a Guitar

Malcolm Guite reflects on stringing, George Herbert, and getting in tune.

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The Pace of Being Known

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The Pace of Being Known

Follow the story of an American pastor whose desire to change the world grinds to a halt in a Scottish parish. Join Eugene Peterson, N. T. Wright and Granny Wallace on a pilgrimage to being known in your own backyard.

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An Encounter with the Ordinary

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An Encounter with the Ordinary

Anthony Esolen: Sometimes a single encounter with what is healthy and ordinary is enough to shake you out of the bad dreams of disease and confusion.

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Living with a Mind

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Living with a Mind

Roger Scruton: The life of the mind is a lifelong recreation, a re-creation of reality, and a way of belonging. 

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A Church That Was

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A Church That Was

Peter Hitchens: The languages of architecture, music, and poetry work mightily on us when we are not aware of it

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The Two Trees

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The Two Trees

When the home of our thoughts shifts from ‘who am I?’ to ‘Who is He?’ I believe we begin to fathom the miracle of ‘Christ in us, the hope of glory.'

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A Longing Rooted in Loss

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A Longing Rooted in Loss

Sometime in the 10th century, an Old English poem is recorded in a book donated to Exeter Cathedral — a poem about an unmoored exile who has lost his home and now roves the earth searching for a new one.

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