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In Medias Res

Essays, notes, and fragments--personal, political, and philosophical--from the midst of things

"Provocative, yet flawed."--Stephen Schneck

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

On Warren Farha, Cultural Renewal, and the (Too Few) Bookish Places Where It Happens

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Last week Warren Farha—a devout Orthodox Christian, a soft-spoken descendent of Lebanese immigrants and merchants, a lifelong Wichitan, and ...
Sunday, April 05, 2026

From Collective to Individual: Easter Thoughts on Constantine, Carrie Nation, and Changes in Christian Influence in Kansas (and Everywhere Else)

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[A meandering and marginally holiday-appropriate extension upon my latest Insight Kansas column .] Decades ago, the Christian theologian Sta...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Kathleen Jolley Fox, 1945-2025

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[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ]  By the time my youngest brother, Baden, and I arrived at the Spokane Valley Hospital in Washington sta...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The 10 Best Books I Read in 2025

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Phil Christman, Why Christians Should be Leftists A wonderful, short--and yes, somewhat rambling, but only in the way the best kind of earne...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Recognizing Christianity’s Universal Leftism for What it Undisputedly Is

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[Cross-posted to Religious Socialism ] Phil Christman, a writer and lecturer at the University of Michigan, is a committed Protestant Christ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

The 10 Best Movies I Saw in 2025

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As always, this is my listing of what I think were the best movies I saw in the past calendar year, not necessarily movies that came out dur...
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