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Welcome to Inner Life
The three of us — Mary Tabor (Only Connect), Joshua Doležal (The Recovering Academic), Sam Kahn (Castalia) — started noticing, in late 2022, that we…
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Joshua Doležal
What Is Inner Light? The Paradox In Quaker Belief
I’ve been thinking lately about George Fox’s maxim that there is “that of God” in everyone, which we discover by finding our inner light.
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Joshua Doležal
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The Erotic Is An Antidote to Death
Touch, sex, bodies and loss
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Tolly Moseley
6
Twelve films to love from one year a while back
Love is the answer in movies that vied for the Oscar way back in 2011—with directors, producers and one actor now “canceled.” Should we not watch these…
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<Mary L. Tabor>
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Intellectual Networks
Randall Collins's Sociology of Philosophers
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Julianne Werlin
3
Grapes, Grit, and Grandeur: My Year with John Steinbeck
Thoughts on reading Steinbeck's complete works over the course of one year
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Matthew Long
32
Undertow
My first published essay
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Joshua Doležal
12
In defense of going nowhere
nowhere is now-Here
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Kimberly Warner
27
Lifeboat
In memory of my son
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<Mary L. Tabor>
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Manifesto for an Oligarchic Era
Notes on Money
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Sam Kahn
5
What Teaching in Prison is Teaching Me About Learning (Part II)
Part II
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Chuck Rybak
6
What Teaching in Prison is Teaching Me About Learning (Part I)
Greetings, readers of Inner Life.
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Chuck Rybak
13
Inner Life
Inner Life
An open conversation about the life of the mind.
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