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James K.A. Smith Inhabits Time

The Habit

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Ecclesiastes - Life Is a Vapor

Ecclesiastes is a recurring theme. You have these little meditations in various parts of the book about Ecclesiastes. My favorite one of your whole book is Embodied Spirits Like Us Live On Breath. I think it's a long meditation on our creaturehood and to this notion of learning to love what you'll lose. Not all losses are tragic. Some are, but there's a kind of loss that is part of living a life across time.

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