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Live Blogging Lent: With a Little Help From My Friends

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Part 7 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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I doubt that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were thinking about Lent when they wrote: “With a Little Help From My Friends.” And I doubt Ringo Starr envisioned Lenten disciplines when he sang the song for the Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. […]

Live Blogging Lent: Fasting from Fast? (Section 4)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Part 6 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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Today I finish up my Lenten reflections on Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick. Let me begin with a quotation from the book:
Who knew that the inconvenience of old-fashioned letter-writing provided a buffer? Highway engineers learned that […]

Live Blogging Lent: Fasting from Fast? (Section 3)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Part 5 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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Last Thursday I put up some comments about and excerpts from a book: Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick. On Friday I wrote about how I have experienced “faster” in my professional life, using the example of […]

Live Blogging Lent: Fasting from Fast? (Section 2)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Part 4 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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Yesterday I began a Lenten review of the book Faster by James Gleick. Today I want to respond a bit more to the book, adding an apt illustration from my own life.
The basic thesis of Faster, prodigiously illustrated, is that just […]

Live Blogging Lent: Fasting from Fast?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Part 3 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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I recently finished reading a book by James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. Published in 2000, Faster argues that our lives are running after faster speeds in more ways than we usually realize. Though many of the illustrations […]

Live Blogging Lent: Lent is Odd

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Part 2 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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Lent is odd.
There are several reasons for this. One has to do with the length of Lent. If you were to ask people how long Lent is, you’d probably hear “forty days.” This period of time is usually connected to Jesus’ […]

Live Blogging Lent: Introduction

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Part 1 of series: Live Blogging Lent
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I expect that most of my readers are familiar with live blogging. It is, as one would expect from the name, a version of blogging, or putting up one’s “log” on the “web.” Live blogging involves putting up posts in the […]