http://www.cardus.ca/contributors/awilkinson? http://www.cardus.ca/contributors/awilkinson?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson en Copyright 2013 Cardus Sat, 25 May 2013 10:46:10 -0400 Cardus Sat, 25 May 2013 10:46:10 -0400 http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3129/?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson Looking graciously back on the giants before us.... Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Looking graciously back on the giants before us.... http://www.cardus.ca/columns/3102/?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson The church, if it wishes to speak into the culture around it, must regain its ability to tell testimonies. It must read its history and learn to tell its individual stories, and to tell them well, so ... Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The church, if it wishes to speak into the culture around it, must regain its ability to tell testimonies. It must read its history and learn to tell its individual stories, and to tell them well, so ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/01/that-pesky-third-bit?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson Following on from my blog post last week—which seems to have struck quite a nerve, judging from the feedback I got (which showed that many, many people are grappling with these vocational questi... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:49:00 -0500 Following on from my blog post last week—which seems to have struck quite a nerve, judging from the feedback I got (which showed that many, many people are grappling with these vocational questi... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/01/vocation-takes-patience?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson I read an interesting blog post by Oliver Segovia on the Harvard Business Review last week: "To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion." Segovia recounts the story of a peer who was primed to pursue her... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:53:00 -0500 I read an interesting blog post by Oliver Segovia on the Harvard Business Review last week: "To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion." Segovia recounts the story of a peer who was primed to pursue her... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/01/pick-up-your-brush?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson Last Thursday I was at the Tate Modern in London for the highly-lauded retrospective of the work of Gerhard Richter, the German painter. Born in 1932, Richter has been working for nearly five decades ... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:05:00 -0500 Last Thursday I was at the Tate Modern in London for the highly-lauded retrospective of the work of Gerhard Richter, the German painter. Born in 1932, Richter has been working for nearly five decades ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/12/generous-love?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson The fourth candle in the Advent wreath stands for love. I've thought a lot about love this past year (sometimes here on the blog). Just last week, I was talking with coworkers about a piece that appea... Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:02:00 -0500 The fourth candle in the Advent wreath stands for love. I've thought a lot about love this past year (sometimes here on the blog). Just last week, I was talking with coworkers about a piece that appea... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/12/the-joyful-one?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson I discovered, as I was making sure I had my facts straight about the third Sunday of Advent, that it's known as the "joyful Sunday." Not only that: tradition dictates that the candle itself is pink, i... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:02:00 -0500 I discovered, as I was making sure I had my facts straight about the third Sunday of Advent, that it's known as the "joyful Sunday." Not only that: tradition dictates that the candle itself is pink, i... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/12/advent-peace?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson Yesterday was the second Sunday of Advent, and the candle we light that day stands for peace. I was thinking about peace, especially the idea of "peace time"—that is, the time when there are no ... Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:22:00 -0500 Yesterday was the second Sunday of Advent, and the candle we light that day stands for peace. I was thinking about peace, especially the idea of "peace time"—that is, the time when there are no ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/11/advent-hope?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson The four candles in the Advent wreath signify four things: hope, peace, love, and joy. I thought of this last week as I scrolled through my friends' Twitter updates and saw all these reports of unrest... Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:25:00 -0500 The four candles in the Advent wreath signify four things: hope, peace, love, and joy. I thought of this last week as I scrolled through my friends' Twitter updates and saw all these reports of unrest... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/11/longing-and-restraint?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson This Thursday is Thanksgiving down here in the U.S., and that signals the start of Christmas season—and the season of Advent, the beginning of the church calendar. Though I grew up in a church t... Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:12:00 -0500 This Thursday is Thanksgiving down here in the U.S., and that signals the start of Christmas season—and the season of Advent, the beginning of the church calendar. Though I grew up in a church t... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/11/not-what-we-expected?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson In the New York Times magazine this weekend, Margaret Heidenry wrote of her experience as a homeschooled child in the 1970s—a time when, of course, homeschooling was illegal in the U.S. (it was ... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:36:00 -0500 In the New York Times magazine this weekend, Margaret Heidenry wrote of her experience as a homeschooled child in the 1970s—a time when, of course, homeschooling was illegal in the U.S. (it was ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/10/what-we-love?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson For the past week or so, my students and I have been discussing the "humans as lovers" philosophical anthropology (using James K.A. Smith's Desiring the Kingdom as our guide). The class has focused ma... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:21:00 -0400 For the past week or so, my students and I have been discussing the "humans as lovers" philosophical anthropology (using James K.A. Smith's Desiring the Kingdom as our guide). The class has focused ma... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/10/shaming-us-into-it?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson I (understandably) spend a great deal of time in the New York subways. The truth about subways is that you stop hearing the announcements after a while. I moved here a month before the bombings in the... Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:26:00 -0400 I (understandably) spend a great deal of time in the New York subways. The truth about subways is that you stop hearing the announcements after a while. I moved here a month before the bombings in the... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/10/against-squeezing?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson It might be self-aggrandizing, but, in the parlance of my generation, whatever: on Friday I wrote about two books about reading, which is a strange sort of down-the-rabbit-hole thing to do. It's espec... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0400 It might be self-aggrandizing, but, in the parlance of my generation, whatever: on Friday I wrote about two books about reading, which is a strange sort of down-the-rabbit-hole thing to do. It's espec... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2947/?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson This is not a book for those who already feel burdened by their long list of books to read, those bowed down by the weight of their ambitions. If you are one of those: read on.... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 This is not a book for those who already feel burdened by their long list of books to read, those bowed down by the weight of their ambitions. If you are one of those: read on.... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/10/free-speech-taken-for-granted?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson For days now, any time I talk to someone who's not from New York, they ask me about the Occupy Wall Street protests going on downtown. Truthfully, I have little to say. I ride the subway through the a... Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:06:00 -0400 For days now, any time I talk to someone who's not from New York, they ask me about the Occupy Wall Street protests going on downtown. Truthfully, I have little to say. I ride the subway through the a... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/09/digging-in?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson As I mentioned last week, my students and I have been pondering the different ways Christians across time and space have viewed culture and their place in it. On Monday we tied it up by talking about ... Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:39:00 -0400 As I mentioned last week, my students and I have been pondering the different ways Christians across time and space have viewed culture and their place in it. On Monday we tied it up by talking about ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/09/left-right-and-both?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson I'm teaching a class on Christian cultural anthropology this term, and we're looking at Niebuhr's classic "Christ and Culture" typology, in which Niebuhr proposes that Christians have viewed their cul... Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:26:00 -0400 I'm teaching a class on Christian cultural anthropology this term, and we're looking at Niebuhr's classic "Christ and Culture" typology, in which Niebuhr proposes that Christians have viewed their cul... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2011/09/the-world-can-run-without-us?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson Here's something for this Labour Day: A piece Jonathan Foust filed last week in The Atlantic defended senior officials who (gasp) choose to take weekends and holidays. Workaholism, as the article poin... Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:34:00 -0400 Here's something for this Labour Day: A piece Jonathan Foust filed last week in The Atlantic defended senior officials who (gasp) choose to take weekends and holidays. Workaholism, as the article poin... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2902/?utm_source=author&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alissa%2BWilkinson A good society has not only its institutions, but its loves in order.... Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400 A good society has not only its institutions, but its loves in order....