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571: TV, Authoritarianism, & the Formative Power of Reading with Jessica Hooten Wilson

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How to Handle Crisis by Reading Poetry

I think if we handled crises by going home and reading poetry we would have a different resource to be able to handle the difficulties in our lives than by turning ourselves off. I love that this book outlines for people here some good formative resources for you. How can we both not have a loose and sentimental theology and then not have loose and sentimental art forms well obviously reading books one thing you look even at the life of Dorothy L Sayers she read everything she you know she's reading Julian of Norwich, knew Homer in the Greek she read the scriptures all of them in the Greek and the original languages so she was constantly reading she was a voracious reader She also read in community that's

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