Boston Independent Film Festival lineup is out! Simple Machine screens on the evenings of April 26 and 29 at 8 pm, Somerville.
It’s always a good day when you get to introduce another generation of students to Wendell Berry.
So glad to finally see proper reporting in The New Republic on Amy Coney Barrett’s actual record, which is not in the pocket of the far right.
“In their critique of medicalization, Illich and Zola might both be characterized as “against health,” to borrow a provocative phrase…The “health” they stand against is not any state of genuine wellbeing but a particular… sarahendren.com/2025/03/3…
So glad to know about the Little Sisters of the Disciples of the Lamb.
What a beautiful sermon by Matthew Milliner: art, typologies of Mary, Alan Watts, consuming fire. I bet that guy’s a top notch teacher.
Looking forward to listening to Motherhood versus the Machine.
From designer and critic Maggie Gram’s forthcoming book The Invention of Design.
Ted Gioia is reaching national treasure status with his regular championing of musicians just doing their thing.
it just takes one
A while ago I wrote a reported essay for Harper’s about a distinctive partnership between professional artists and adults with intellectual disabilities outside Edinburgh. (Trust me — it’s not the kind you’re thinking of.) I heard from exactly one reader about that piece, but it only takes one. She’s just piloted a replica program in Omaha this year, and they’ve named it Risky Disco, after the piece. My heart sings. It’s the only thing I wanted.
Ok, camera people — if you were going to recommend a camera that’s 1) lightweight enough to hang around my neck a lot of the time and 2) best value for quickly taking high quality digital shots, what would it be?
In response to Freddie deBoer’s latest, I wrote about the paradoxes of disability — an offering especially to you fellow teachers and caregivers of young people in our weird age.
Theologians and ministers of Micro who will administer ashes next week: What do you teach about leaving ashes on one’s head for the day? In college, I was taught by a priest to wipe them away: “when you pray, pray in secret,” etc. But I usually see folks marked for the day every year.
Always be reading @ayjay: “How often do we think, perhaps in some unacknowledged place deep inside our minds and hearts, that when we come to church and say the appointed words and perform the correct actions, we are somehow… sarahendren.com/2025/02/2…
This podcast treatment of USAID — history, context, various critiques — is really well done.
I thought this review of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital got it right. And Metropolitan Review looks promising all around!
Looking forward to joining the good people of UF’s Christian Study Center in a couple weeks for two lectures on disability and the virtues of dependence.
Anthony Galluzzo explains the oddly united forms of “biotechnological Prometheanism” on left and right.
San Miguel chapel, the oldest church structure in the US, Santa Fe.
Jack Goldsmith writes another very reasoned and helpful history of the unitary executive theory.