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So much for my novel tonight...

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Am I the only one unable to get this to play?

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Anyone know a way to download substack video? Would love to be able to convert this to an audio file and be able to listen to this while on a nice long walk.

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This is a mystery to me. Would it help if I uploaded it to Youtube?

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Yes thank you. I pay for YT premium in large part so I can use the app and listen on lock. (And ads are the devil).

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Yes, please. Every time I try to watch something on Vimeo, the program keeps reloading between every few seconds of speech, and things get dropped.

Dana

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Shouldn’t need to. Coulda sworn you could play substack vids audio on lock before now, but yeah it doesn’t work. Kinda a deal breaker.

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I was sent a copy of the interview from the Christian Century by an Anglican Minister - and I loved it - and I’m looking forward to watching and listening to the full interview

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Anglican priest, you mean?

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Roland's skills are far beyond anything us mere homo sapiens could ever hope to fathom, yet he graciously still tries to help as along as best he can. He just has that kind of bodi chitta about his presence.

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I must say, when I read douthat's excerpt, I was reminded of a joke that came to mind when reading tradition and apocalypse. (Here substituting Schillebeeckx for Blondel.)

"Maybe the real apocalypse was the friends we made along the way."

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Douthat’s excerpt of what?

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Of the edited transcript of the interview. Someone posted Douthat's comments on the fan group on Facebook.

For the record, I have nothing but contempt for douthat.

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Again, about what?

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This is the text. I can't post the photo.

"Does that disavowal of propositional faith mean then that you're advocating an ahistorical understanding of the resurrection?"

"Well, I'm not talking about Schillebeeckx's notion, where everybody gets together after the crucifixion and discusses it and Easter becomes salvation through group therapy. First Corinthians 15 is a very early text, and it's just a straightforward report of what I take to be very credible experiences, first of what others had experienced and then of Paul's own experience and I find nothing there that makes sense if you demystify it. I think the only way to understand it is that the one who had been crucified really was alive and vindicated by God and present manifestly, at times physically, though not in a flesh-and-blood way, but physically nonetheless.

Now, it might be that it's not an objective phenomenon. But is there even such a thing as an objective phenomenon?

It's perhaps like when Owen Barfield, in Saving the Appearances, talks about the rainbow. It's real, but it's not there in the physical sense of an actual colored strip that's somehow drawn across the sky. You can't separate the event of its manifestation from the event of its perception."

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We seem to be going in circles. I’m curious about what Douthat said.

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I can post the text here "Nothing more DBH than this: 'It may sound like I'm becoming a liberal Protestant, but fear not, because no liberal Protestant theologian can withstand the fire of my intellectual contempt.'" He includes the part where you criticize Tillich and Bultmann.

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"It's not my neck of the woods, it's the neck of the woods where I am..."--David Bentley Hart

"Don't you mind dying, sir?" the consul asked. "Forgive me a little lofty talk," van Gulik said, "but all movement is illusory. From Seoul to Kobe. From life to death."

Janwillem van de Wetering, "Robert van Gulik: His Life and Work."

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I've read a bit of Rustkins economics, but could you tell me where he describes his parliamentary views?

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