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Twenty Twenty Four: Year-end review & reflections

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Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2024

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Twenty Twenty Three: Year-end review & reflections

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Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2023

This is the week that various outlets publish lists of the "best books of the year," the "books most likely to shape life, thought, and culture.” I always feel for the authors whose books didn't even make the shortlist, as well for those who have…
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Justin BaileyDecember 8, 2023
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In gratitude for Tim Keller (1950-2023)

Tim Keller passed away on Friday, May 19, 2023. I cried when I learned about it. This is my tribute, in gratitude for his ministry. I first heard about Tim Keller about 20 years ago, during my first year in seminary. To contextualize the connection,…
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Justin BaileyMay 20, 2023
Twenty Twenty Two: Year-end review & reflections Confessional

Twenty Twenty Two: Year-end review & reflections

And just like that we come to the end of another calendar year. Here are some snapshots, highlights, and reflections from the year of teaching, scholarship, ministry, and family life. Teaching at Dordt I taught five courses this year: Biblical Foundations, Aesthetics, Ethics, Leadership &…
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Justin BaileyDecember 16, 2022
Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2022 BooksLists

Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2022

This is the week where people and places publish their list of the best books, "the books most likely to shape life, thought, and culture," as one list puts it. Despite having no reasonable expectation to be considered, it still bothers me way more than…
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Justin BaileyDecember 14, 2022
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Summer Report: Where I’ve been…

A baseball game (White Sox vs Twins) with my friend Matt - great seats! One of the very best things about working in higher education is getting to follow the rhythms of the academic calendar. In between the spring and fall semester is this three…
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Justin BaileyAugust 12, 2022
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Twenty Twenty One: Year-end reflections

I've decided to try to take the last two weeks of the year off from my to do lists – and hopefully away from the Internet as much as possible – so I'm writing my year end reflections a bit early. Here are some snapshots,…
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Justin BaileyDecember 17, 2021
What is Real? (6): “If I Find in Myself a Desire Which Nothing in This World Can Satisfy…” Uncategorized

What is Real? (6): “If I Find in Myself a Desire Which Nothing in This World Can Satisfy…”

“This is what I have been looking for all my life.” Lewis puts these words into the lips of several of his characters: John in The Pilgrim’s Regress, Psyche in Till we Have Faces, Jewel in the Last Battle.  The words represent a lifelong search for…
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Justin BaileyFebruary 17, 2012
What is Real? (5): Myths are Not Lies Uncategorized

What is Real? (5): Myths are Not Lies

Before Lewis met Tolkein, he writes in his autobiography that although he loved his imaginative life, he did not believe that the characters in his imaginary world were real: “I never mistook imagination for reality.” Indeed, when Lewis met Tolkein, the two would argue intensely…
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Justin BaileyFebruary 15, 2012
What is Real? (4): A Marsh-Wiggle’s Perspective Uncategorized

What is Real? (4): A Marsh-Wiggle’s Perspective

In his autobiography, Lewis writes that as he was being steeped in naturalistic materialism, he also was falling in love with Norse mythology. These two spheres of his inner world were so distinct, he writes, that it made it necessary almost to write two different…
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Justin BaileyJanuary 27, 2012
What is Real? (3): A Kiss is Just Two Sets of Lips Pressed Together Uncategorized

What is Real? (3): A Kiss is Just Two Sets of Lips Pressed Together

What is real? Naturalism takes the possibility of super-natural off the table from beginning.  It is natural-ism, after all. But if we insist on explaining everything in terms of sense and science, then this leaves us with rather mechanical explanations of everything we experience. Joy…
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Justin BaileyJanuary 25, 2012
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