Pinned
“This book is the product of massive and original scholarship....the book requires an almost total rethinking of how we look on Mary today, this in the light of how medieval Christians understood her.”—Fr. James Schall
Rachel Fulton Brown
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Rachel Fulton Brown
@RFultonBrown
Christian, American, professor of medieval European history, poet, fencer, blogger, wife. Livestreams weekly on the Mosaic Ark: dragoncommonroom.com
- In the Middle Ages, when fire struck, as it often did, Christians took it as a sign to renew their faith and rebuild their church.
- I have been waiting for two years for my institution to remember who it is. Time to rise, University of Chicago! Shake off the fear, and be the Phoenix. @UChicago @UChicagoMed @UChicagoNews fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com/2022/01/an-ope…
- Love for our pets has no price. Find Milo’s cat!
- I could sit here all day retweeting @ThinkerChicago. THIS is what I have been saying about who we are at @UChicago. THIS is the Chicago Way. fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-ch…
- "We are in uncharted territory. How a civilization survives with so much contempt for itself is an open question."
- “Our country is not a sports team. It is not a corporation. It is not an economic zone. “It is our home.” —Andrew Torba, Gab
- Consider: The UChicago students who gathered with me in prayer this morning and carried the American flag across campus this afternon are the same students who, unmasked, stood up for years against the masking, lockdowns, and vaccination mandates at our university. @UChicago
- There isn’t enough popcorn in the world for the current implosion. Consider, according to @elonmusk, it is unnecessary to have an American university degree in order to do high level tech work. And yet, American higher education has spent the past 30 plus years recruiting
- American universities to American students: “Paying tuition is a way to earn a higher place in the career structure and more money.” Also American universities: “Foreign students are the source of our prestige, which American students cannot share in.” The more I think about
- Our robot overlords seem not to know what day it is. Funny, they celebrate everything else.
