With SubSuperior, Phillips has transmuted his first-person account of racial paradoxes and inequities into an array of metaphors articulating a deeply felt protest, devoid of preachments and slogans.
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He is also known to a wider world for his preachments on leadership skills at management conferences and the like, upholding "possibility thinking," an airy concept he has written about with his partner, Rosamund Zander.
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In a recent cri de coeur on the influential Gospel Coalition site, Jared Wilson described younger evangelicals as "basically a bunch of theological orphans," betrayed by older pastors who insisted on the importance of moral character and then abandoned these preachments for the sake of partisanship — revealing their own commitments as essentially idolatrous, and leaving the next generation no choice but to invent evangelicalism anew.
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Many years later Hamill recalled his teaching: Over and over again he explained the precise word, the need for feeling in the poetry. There would be no Sons And Lovers without feeling – the reading public would know it was fraudulent. The preachments were gentle but firm, reasonableness in all things. Another one of his teachers at the school was Seamus Heaney.
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Duncan has written a collection of short stories, River Teeth (1996, ), and a memoir of sorts, My Story As Told By Water (2001, ). His latest work is God Laughs and Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right, published in 2006 (). An essay, "Bird Watching as a Blood Sport", appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1998; Duncan wrote the foreword to Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven (2001, ). An essay, "A Mickey Mantle koan: The obstinate grip of an autographed baseball" appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1992.
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From his introduction to Guardians of Liberty, Vol. II, 1943 by Bishop Alma White: > Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, so vicious and Machiavellian in character, > plainly told a stupid world what he intended to do, and Rome, through her > many pronouncements, encyclical letters, and preachments, has declared in > unmistakable terms her prerogatives, boasting the right to rule over the > souls of men, not only in the church, but in the state. > Mother quotes again and again from the authenticated Roman Catholic sources. > She feels her mission is to inform a Liberty-loving people of hierarchical > purposes and ambition.
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In 2002, Sierra Club Books released a 20th Anniversary Edition that includes a new afterword by the author describing Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks influence on him at the age of 16 and how this led him to a life of literature. Duncan also uses the afterword to describe the process that led to the writing of The River Why, and the difficulty finding a publisher. Throughout the piece Duncan speaks of political, religious, and environmental ideas that are the basis of The River Why, The Brothers K (1992, ), River Teeth (1996, ), My Story As Told By Water (2001, ), God Laughs and Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right, () as well as other essays and published writings.
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