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Love of What is Timeless as a Response to Chaotic Times

How clinging to timeless things can help us flourish even as chaos fills our timelines

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O. Alan Noble
Nov 15, 2024
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I want to argue that particularly as our culture seems to be spinning apart and the newscycle grows shorter and shorter and our anxiety increases, there is a greater need for us to cling to timeless works, particularly the Bible and works of art: poems, novels, songs, paintings, etc. But I want you to understand how I came …

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