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Later this week I am speaking at the Living at the Crossroads conference on the topic “Reading Isaiah 60 in the modern marketplace.” In my preparation for that talk I have become fascinated by “the ships of Tarshish.” My copy of the Anchor Bible Dictionary talks about the ambiguities around “Tarshish,” and suggests that the word can refer [...]

“Repetition is a form of change.” (Brian Eno)
“We repeated ourselves into this culture. We might be able to repeat ourselves out.” (Robert Fink)
– from Alex Ross, The rest is noise

“In spite of the fact that I was old enough to be the boys’ father, we were both on the same side of the real generational divide in the culture … To people on my parents’ side of that divide, pop culture was mass culture — someone else’s culture, external to their identity — but [...]