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		<title>C.S. Lewis and Life&#8217;s Simple Pleasures</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beauty can invigorate our working hectic lives, if only we let it. I’ve spoken with writers, pastors, mothers, and fathers who tell me, “I just don’t have time to get out and spend time in nature or go for a walk or just sit and listen. I’m too busy.” And I get it. I fall [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Beauty Matters in Wartime</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thetoolshed/2022/02/why-beauty-matters-in-wartime/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What do we do as human beings in times of crises, war, and uncertainty? The following seven reflections come from C.S. Lewis’s essay, “Learning in War-Time,” as well as some of my own reflections. Seven Reasons Why Beauty Matters in Wartime First, remember, from ancient times till now, humanity has always faced some kind of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We Need to Better Critics of Ourselves, Others, and the Times</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Critique gets bad press. We think of it in a negative light, because who likes to be told how bad something is, especially about their own work? But that’s not the whole story for critique. Good Critique is Essential for Learning As a professional writer, I live in the world of immediate critique. If I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Global Religion: The Future of Christianity</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thetoolshed/2021/04/global-religion-the-future-of-christianity/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[World Religions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Pew Research Center released a new study: “The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050.”Here are some highlights. There are 6.9 billion people in the world Religious ‘nones’ are in decline worldwide but will increase in the United States, from 16% to 26% by 2050 Christianity remains the largest religion in the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vitalogy: Pearl Jam and the Preciousness of Life</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thetoolshed/2021/04/vitalogy-pearl-jam-and-the-preciousness-of-life/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vitalogy. What is it? My GenX brothers and sisters, along with my own daughters, will recognize this word as the 1994 album released by Pearl Jam. In true Pearl Jam fashion, Vitalogy was released on vinyl before it was released as a CD. The cassette release followed the vinyl. I purchased all three mediums. Until [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Utilitarianism and Human Flourishing: Does It Matter?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thetoolshed/2021/03/utilitarianism-and-human-flourishing-does-it-matter/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week I’m reflecting on one of the logical outcomes of utilitarianism as it relates to personhood and beauty. I want to review utilitarianism in brief. I’ll begin with a brief look at Aristotle and jump to the modern era so as to get a handle on how we tend to view it in our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dunkirk: A Visceral Reaction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Nolan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dunkirk. I had mixed feelings before going. So many “cool” Christians said it was “a masterpiece.” And of course, I will not see a movie when it gets reviews like that. Yes, it’s one of my fatal flaws. But I did view it, and have many thoughts. First, there’s the obvious delimiting Nolan exercises on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Against Rahnerian Transcendence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[analogy of being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Urs von Balthasar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Rahner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theological aesthetics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the notion of subjective unity of all reality: Excerpt: Rahner’s transcendental anthopology  Rhaner conceived and developed a transcendental anthropology; human beings are “spirits in the world.” As such, human and divine realities meet in the subjective reality of the individual spirit. In other words, God becomes present to human experience as the transcendental horizon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Transhumanism: Can&#8217;t Code This</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thetoolshed/2017/08/transhumanism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[materialism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Transhumanists do a disservice by making transhumanism—a term first coined in 1957 by Julian Huxley in his essay New Bottles for New Wine—seem appealing because it’s based on speculative philosophy that reduces the self to a series of ones and zeroes. I feel like I’m looking into those mid-90’s mirror glasses of Morpheus trying to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Sound Does Grace Make?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thetoolshed/2017/05/sound-grace-make/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Willard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 13:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It took me a long time to figure out what grace is, how it works, and what it sounds like.]]></description>
		
		
		
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