Don’t Read My Blog Every Day!

…if you don’t want to.

As a matter of fact, you may have only signed up for my Saturday Substack Newsletter, Rumbling Toward Heaven, and are now wondering why you’re getting something from me in your inbox on a Monday. 

Well, this is a courtesy email to let you know that I will be publishing a short blog post (300 words or so) just about every weekday along with my weekly Saturday newsletter (about 1000 words or so) for the foreseeable future. I might even move away from Substack, but that is yet to be determined.

If you would like to continue receiving these daily posts, select Update preferences in the footer (of the email), then check the box that says Scott’s Daily Blog. You can also just unsubscribe; although, I hope you won’t. If you do nothing, you will probably just continue to get my Saturday Newsletter, unless you signed up for my blog eons ago before I paused my daily posts to focus on my dissertation.

In addition to writing more frequently for the sake of improving my craft, my purpose for a daily blog is threefold:

• First, it’s to inspire the cultivation of the life of the mind by sharing insights and wisdom animated by the Christian humanist imagination.
• Second, it’s to help any interested human beings become lifelong learners through there own pursuit and appreciation of what is good, true, and beautiful,.
• Finally, it’s to seek all manner of human flourishing through contemplating great literature, art, music, etc.

For example, I recently finished reading Louis Auchincloss’s The Rector of Justin. I chose to read the novel out of sheer curiosity for David Hick’s reference to the book in his introduction to Norms and Nobility, but was struck by the profundity of one of our shared human experiences: the disappointment of unrealized ideals.

Now I better understand why Hicks chose the following lines for the epigraph of his Prologue:

I know that we live in an age where homely or psychological detail is considered all-important. We like heroes in shirtsleeves, or, in other words, we don’t like heroes. But things were not always that way, and today is not forever.

—Louis Auchincloss