Midweek Musings - August 26, 2026
More on the Good Life and Universities; Reading Brothers K; Thoughts on Turning 90; Where Did All the Color Go?
Practicing Resurrection
Matthew Hall is the provost and senior vice president of Biola University (La Mirada, CA). He writes about issues of theology, culture, and leadership.
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On the Gift of Forgetting; Endangered Dad Books; 30 Years of Thin Air; Why Reading Matters; Princeton Proctors; Spanish Castles
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Who Feeds the Dog?; Rising Church Attendance; the Myth of Photographic Memory; Rubens and Scatological Bovines
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Advice for College Graduates; Literature and the Common Good; 750 Years of Merton Library; 6th Century Poetry; Anne Boleyn; Artemis II Photos
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Distance Running and Leadership; Education as Repair; Keeping Score at the Ballpark; Zurbarán in London; Salmon and Cocaine