Thomas Turner
Thomas Turner is the Senior Editor, Literary Arts of GENERATE Magazine and blogs at EverydayLiturgy.com. He is also a recent graduate of the Rutgers M.A. English program, a hopeful Ph.D. candidate, and worships at The Plant, a community cultivating love, truth, and compassion in Mahwah, New Jersey.
After writing my eloquent and diplomatic piece rant about contemporary country music today (it’s just as bad as that other CCM!), I wondered how we could crowd source all the good country music into one spot. Since this webzine is The Curator, I thought to myself the most productive thing to do at this point [...]
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I miss country music. I really do. I used to love it. After moving to the New York City metro area almost seven years ago I went through withdrawal. There was no country music station. Top 40 was everywhere. It was awful. But then something started happening in country music shortly after I moved up [...]
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I had eleven days off for Christmas and New Years. No work to do. Just spending time with family, reading and writing. I also decided to take a stab at brewing my own beer. It was all and all relaxing time. What was different about this time, other than the hours I suddenly had to [...]
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Then I said it: “I bet I can come up with a menu for shopping at Whole Foods that comes out cheaper than eating fast food.”
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In “The Bard of Our Time,” her compelling analysis of the new movie Anonymous, Sørina Higgins struggles to connect the message of the movie—elites are the holders of power and the creators of culture—with the today’s zietgeist—the 99% should take power away from the 1%. She opines: The message of Anonymous is essentially that a [...]
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Often, the general understanding of the Internet is that it is a collection of information that is so vast it leads to fragmentation. That is certainly what the Internet was making Laura Tokie feel like. But, in her essay “For Victoria Crawford,” after “trolling the internet at all hours of the night, grasping facts and [...]
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In her latest essay “Give It a Year,” L.L. Barkat talks about what a difference a year can make when it’s focused on one thing in particular. Having experienced a year fixed in one place, she looks forward to how she can do “more time”: One year for a visual art pilgrimage. A year exploring [...]
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Rebecca Tirrell Talbot raises this question in her essay “A Trail of Belongings.” One of the great ironies of our culture is that we are both a highly mobile culture and a highly consumeristic culture, which often means we need to move a lot of stuff and move it quickly (hence PODS). Rebecca writes: Downsizing, [...]
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Sørina Higgins writes an outstanding synthesis of three pieces of art in her recent piece “Three Sorrows.” Her discussion of Of Gods & Men, the award winning French film, is particularly astute: Of Gods and Men is such an amazing film that it does even more than bridge the gap between the arts and faith. [...]
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In “Weathering the Books,” her survey of personal reading history, Rebecca Martin surmises that for her “reading is seasonal…intensely seasonal.” She goes on: Don’t you know December is for dark fantasy and Victorian novels? The likes of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Jane Eyre, Bleak House. Fall is for The Fellowship of the Ring — [...]
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