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Davey Henreckson

@dhenreckson.bsky.social
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Director/professor at Whitworth University | author at Cambridge and Baker Academic (contracted) | PhD at Princeton | Chicago partisan | latter-day scholastic

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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Perfectly modulated take from Samuel Kimbriel on the pedestrian "effective accelerationism" of the tech power brokers wisdomofcrowds.live/p/of-giants-...
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Of Giants and Gods
Live from MAGA Hollywood.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This piece is worth reading, maybe twice over. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/o...
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Opinion | Faith Is Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be (Gift Article)
The word “faith” implies the possession of something, whereas I experience faith as a yearning for something beautiful that I can sense but not fully grasp.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It'd mostly be an expansion on the points in my first response. Milbank has been telling these narratives for decades, but hasn't responded to the very compelling counter-arguments from folks like Stout and Dumler-Winckler. His liberalism is a thin, strawmanned concept.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The narrative can't withstand certain counter-arguments. E.g. Jeff Stout's *Democracy and Tradition* and Emily Dumler-Winckler's *Modern Virtue*.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Many appealing elements here, friend. But the totalizing, flat-ironed description of "liberalism" is frustrating at best. So much more complexity to the historical and conceptual history of modernity that is conveniently elided from the postliberal narrative.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Is this way of life alive enough to be shared?"
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Brilliant stuff here.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I will never, ever get over this.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A man of the people.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My new piece in Comment: on the grace of choosing to love unlikely objects of love comment.org/choosing-the...
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Choosing the Impossible Love
We naturally seek friendships based on affinity, but Christians are called to extend friendship wider than affinity and into love of our enemies.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I used BlueArk to import my tweets over while I gave this a try.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I joined Twitter in 2010, in my 1st year of grad school. I found a thriving ecosystem of theology nerds, niche political analysis, and strangely immediate means of communicating with writers and thinkers that I loved. I'm skeptical that lightning can strike in the same way twice. But here goes.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New favorite morning walk in my temporary home of Seattle
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Found myself re-reading the introduction of Jeffrey Stout's *Democracy and Tradition* this morning. This was written 20 years ago, or perhaps today.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
There are silver linings to having Seattle as a temporary second home
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/po…
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Is Tolerance Still a Virtue?
Jake Meador says that when it comes to politics, sometime...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Once again, @jake_meador is doing good work drawing attention to political theology from scholars who draw deeply on the historical tradition to address contemporary concepts too often strawmanned. This time, it’s Bowlin’s work on the virtue of tolerance...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
One year ago today: married the smartest, kindest, most beautiful person I'd ever met. We're spending our anniversary in a way neither of us ever wanted or could anticipate. But cancer doesn't get the last word.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
It's a wrap. So many life-giving conversations with new and old friends on Christian formation, justice, and not gaining the whole world only to lose your soul. Thanks to @james_ka_smith, @bethallisonbarr, @MalcolmBFoley, @catjonathantran, @EricSeanGregory, and @HootenWilson
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Scenes from day one of a conference long in the planning: coffee and conversation with @MalcolmBFoley, @bethallisonbarr, @catjonathantran, @EricSeanGregory, opening plenary remarks, and a standing room-only concert from The Porter’s Gate.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
www.eventbrite.com/e/renewing-mind-…
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Next week at @whitworth: so many good people talking about things that matter--calling, character, and an education of the mind, heart, & soul. Come hear @james_ka_smith, @catjonathantran, @HootenWilson, @bethallisonbarr, @MalcolmBFoley, & @EricSeanGregory...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Sunrise walk in Oxford
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
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Mind and Heart: Addressing the Crisis of Formation in Chr...
“We live in days of ferment, agitation, and transition.” ...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Grateful to the folks at @XScholarsReview who invited me to write this piece on the new challenges facing Christian higher education, along with a shoutout to our upcoming conference at @whitworth this October....
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Hard to top this day in London: Dishoom for breakfast, sung eucharist at St Paul’s, the National Gallery, Hadestown, and North African fare at The Barbary
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Oh, just another reason to be anti-monarchist 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
In its natural habitat @CambridgeUP
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Sunrise in Cambridge
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
A fascinating essay from @DavidSchaengold on AI, Kripke, linguistics, human "magic," and why Google can't compute "999,999,999,999,999 minus 999,999,999,999,998." www.plough.com/en/topics/life/techn…
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Computers Can’t Do Math
David Schaengold argues that computers can’t do math and ...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Final retreat day for @whitworth’s Vocations of the Christian Professor program. After a week of reading @james_ka_smith, @mathyawp, @HootenWilson, and @rooseveltmontas, alongside Charles Taylor, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Josef Pieper, et al.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2…
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The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing
Beware technology that makes us less human.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
This essay from @Tyler_A_Harper hits the main point precisely: the existential threat of AI/AGI is not its dystopian threat to our species' survival, but its subtle "sapping the ability of human beings to do human things."...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/m…
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2024 Archives - Christianity Today
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
The always thoughtful @jeff_bilbro warns Christian higher ed institutions about the temptations of a consumerist anthropology in CT today...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
RIP Robert Adams (1937-2024), whose work I wrestled with--without much success on my part--throughout grad school. One of the great Christian philosophers of his generation. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024…
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Strikes me as a fitting poem for Holy Saturday.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Can our academic communities cultivate spaces to educate not only the mind, but the heart and soul as well? Thrilled to host @james_ka_smith, @HootenWilson, @bethallisonbarr, @MalcolmBFoley, @catjonathantran, and @EricSeanGregory at @whitworth this fall. shorturl.at/bcgD6
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Follow along here as details are confirmed: www.whitworth.edu/cms/administratio…
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Renewing Mind and Heart Conference | Whitworth University
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
More details (and registration link) to come. But we're excited to spark some conversations about the challenges facing church-related higher ed, and to explore how the theological resources of the Christian tradition might help us address social injustices in our communities.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Save the dates, y'all: Oct 17-19, here at @whitworth. We're hosting a conference on the future of Christian higher education, featuring @james_ka_smith, @HootenWilson, @bethallisonbarr, @MalcolmBFoley, @catjonathantran, @EricSeanGregory, and music from The Porter's Gate.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
The next week of class readings here at @whitworth is going to be so rich, and probably extract more than a few tears.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
After sunrise overlooking the Spokane River gorge.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Such a punch to the gut to hear that @Image_Journal is closing up shop. I've been introduced to so many excellent writers and poets in its pages. imagejournal.org/2024-image-announc…
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Important news about Image
An important announcement from Image: after 35 years, Ima...
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Christian Wiman, one of my favorite essayists and poets, is coming to @whitworth next month. If y'all are in the Spokane area, please come!
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
So rare to find a book on contemporary faith and politics that has such a non-anxious presence to it. I’m grateful.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
IYKYK.
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
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Davey Henreckson @dhenreckson.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
This piece will preach. From the always interesting @Tyler_A_Harper www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2…
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The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction
If the humanities have become more political over the pas...
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