"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …
The Weekend Wanderer: 2 March 2024
"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …
The Lust for Seeing: from Josef Pieper
This quotation from philosopher and theologian Josef Pieper captured my attention over a year ago when I was preparing a series of messages for students on distraction and attention. Themes of distraction and attentiveness have become increasingly important to me as the information economy takes hold of our culture and shapes our lives more than …
When Distractions Overtake Us
Some of you know that I love pie. This past Fall our school had a fund-raiser with Elegant Farmer pies and someone in our family bought six just to be on the safe side to make sure that we would have enough. We worked through those pies as a family over the course of the winter. …
Attention as a Key to Wisdom
The distractions of our lives slowly become the purpose of our lives when inattention and lack of focus reign within our souls. The more information we have, the less true knowledge we attain. The less knowledge we attain, the more confusing our life experiences become. Lacking knowledge and meaningful experience in a whirlpool of information, …
Matthew Erickson 