Auspice Maria | Who's Afraid of the Still Small Voice?: https://nitter.cf/t.co/ZyjLUG4But
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As part of the Richard D. McLellan Prizes for Advancing Free Speech and Expression Program, we're pleased to award the 2026-27 Mickey Shapiro Free Speech Fellowships: John G. Grove, editor-in-chief of @LawLiberty, and @cmnelson71, from the Lumen Center: buff.ly/XWeqScA.
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Congratulations to the @KirkCenter’s three new Free Speech Fellows! Join us on 11/19 in DC for the awards celebration: zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/20…
As part of the Richard D. McLellan Prizes for Advancing Free Speech and Expression Program, the Russell Kirk Center is pleased to award the 2026 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellowships to: @DanJTPitt, @BethanyBlankley, @DennisWieboldt: buff.ly/MtQycIS
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Imagine that. Harvard is reinventing a great books college. And the students do really want to put down the phones and pick the classics up.
“A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience, and you can’t get that out of AI,” said Peggy Urdan, a government and neuroscience major from Lexington, Mass. “The only way to get anything out of this class is to not use AI.”
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Oshkosh teacher, former ’employee of the year,’ detained by ICE via @JoeSchulz3
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The Scarlet Letter left J. A. Gray with so many questions about old Mr. Prynne that he felt compelled to answer them via his own novelistic exploration of the lives of Hawthorne’s characters. In Mr. Prynne, Gray brings the Bostonians of 1642 to life again: new characters join them, new scenes unroll, unexpected challenges appear, fresh insights are gained, and things never before imagined are revealed. Read more in @WisebloodBooks newsletter:
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"“The novel is good, clever, and edifying in equal measure." --@DrPatrickDowney
Today my publisher @WisebloodBooks brings out MR. PRYNNE by J.A. Gray, whom I know as an exacting proofreader with a Nabokovian eye for detail:
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Details: My politics are libertarian (in a sensible, adult way), and I’m an evangelical, like 1/5 people in this big country (but very few in the national press). I enjoy editing a range of views, and I live in Pittsburgh, a good vantage for nuanced takes on politics & culture.
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Christianity Today has seen about half its staff quit or laid off in the last 14 mos. Former employees told me that new business leaders have intervened in editorial decisions & are effectively abandoning the outlet's commitment to independent journalism. nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/ch…
Many people admire Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This summer I learned that I'm not one of them (to put it mildly). But the centripetal forces of faith & fellowship made for a fruitful disagreement on this subject. "Hate the Book, Love the Parish Book Club": americamagazine.org/books/20…
The phrase "extreme crisis of depersonalization" helpfully brings into focus an issue underlying quite a few cultural and societal harms these days--and also points toward a solution (which someone who knows more about Catholic personalism than I do will have to spell out)
There's been a lot of talk about how this is a byproduct of the partriarchy and yeah, obviously, it is. But there is also an extreme crisis of depersonalization going on among younger people right now. This idea that relationships and people's inner lives are separate from experiences, or stories, or the Content of it all.
These guys weren't thinking about how Jane Doe was going to feel when she woke up, or whether or not she wanted to have sex with them. I don't even think they were thinking about how *they* wanted to have sex with *her*.
They were thinking about how great of a story this was. What it said about their college experiences and the bonds between brothers. They were thinking about how they'd be able to tell each other last night was a movie.
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Today @mereorthodoxy, I'm pleased to write about the wonderful Women's Convention this past weekend, with much gratitude to @FairerSexFD and so many who made it possible! I came home encouraged and excited for productive conversations to continue! mereorthodoxy.com/sex-realis…
"[US News & WR] rankings have created an illusion of scarcity & college pressure has trickled down to kids in 8th or 9th grade, or younger. ... Chasing metrics is not compatible with raising well-adjusted kids." A refreshing take on metric derangement syndrome from my alma mater
"Everyone needs to stop pretending that a cumulative high school GPA of 4.0 is meaningfully different from a 3.7. And everyone needs to stop pretending that a college ranked #19 is meaningfully different from a college ranked #34." substack.com/home/post/p-216…
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Dear friends,
I would like to share a
special message with you.
After several years of private discernment, I would like to announce to you with great reverence and care that, with the blessing of my religious community the Sisters of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) and the Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his Excellency Jeffrey S. Grob, I am officially entering into a time of public discernment of the foundation of a new religious community, Friends of the Bridegroom.
The pathway here has been richly blessed by the wisdom and guidance of my spiritual director, my superiors, the competent ecclesiastical authorities, and so many dear friends and advisors.
As many of you know, my years of work in the area of healing, as well as my work with religious sisters, general superiors, bishops, and priests have allowed me to see and experience the need and ache for the ongoing healing and renewal of our clergy and religious sisters.
For the past three years, I have served as the Executive Director of Friends of the Bridegroom with Fr. John Burns. Friends of the Bridegroom is an apostolate that seeks to renew the Church through the renewal of religious life and the priesthood. It has been a profoundly blessed time, and the Lord has continually stirred a desire in all of us in the apostolate to discern the foundation of a new community of priests, religious sisters, and laity who would work toward this important renewal.
During this time of public discernment, the Friends of the Bridegroom ministry and my public activities connected with this discernment will remain under the pastoral care and oversight of Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, Archbishop of Milwaukee. I am deeply grateful for his willingness to accompany and guide this discernment during this important time.
I am truly grateful for the support of so many people over the years and I continue to count on your prayers and support as we discern this very important step. During this time of public discernment, I remain a Sister of good standing with SOLT and will continue to wear the SOLT Sisters habit.
Once again, I extend my tremendous gratitude to Sister Mary Aloysius of Jesus, SOLT General Sister Servant, her General Council, and Archbishop Jeffrey Grob.
Please pray for the renewal of the priesthood and religious life.
To learn more about Friends of the Bridegroom, please visit our website renewreligious.org
Today is the official pub date for my book WHO'S AFRAID OF THE STILL SMALL VOICE?. A collection of essays on teaching, learning, and faith; an argument that much of what ails education today boils down to an assault on conscience; a word (I hope and pray) for the weary. Out now!
If you're local to Madison & free to talk about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein on your lunch hour, spots are still available for a reading group at Upper House. I'm not exactly *excited* to re-read the novel in an age of AI & educational chaos but here we go: instagram.com/p/DdHG1EURfEF/
Up until now the $85M LSU-shaped lazy river (google it) had been the high-water mark of insane higher ed spending in my mind. Sad kudos to @ProfBarryLam for pointing out the less glamorous, even more expensive culprit hiding in plain sight: edtech
This article about admin bloat by @ProfBarryLam is very important. It points out that one of the major drivers of the bureaucratic build out in academia is an over-reliance on bullshit EdTech software that makes everything worse while requiring a legion of flunkies to manage it.
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subspla.sh/7mtb73r Do you live in the Upper Midwest? come and join this amazing reading group with professor, @cmnelson71
VERY excited for @WisebloodBooks to bring this biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne's daughter Rose (who became a Dominican sister and is now a Servant of God) back into print!
Wiseblood collaborated with Well-Read Mom to publish a special edition of this (previously) out-of-print book:
Sorrow Built a Bridge: The Life of Mother Alphonsa, Daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Katherine Burton. Bringing us beyond mere biography and into the deeper meaning of Rose Hawthorne’s life, Burton shows how a privileged daughter of America’s literati came to lead a life of heroic virtue and become Mother Mary Alphonsa. Read more in our newsletter below . . .
