Excarnation — The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a “belief system.” Contra incarnational, sacramental spirituality.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

The future author is one who discovers that language the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language will serve him in winning through to his way.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Dont accept discouragement keep going Less stress will result by not allowing discouragement to be your attitude

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

I have always loved watermelon and relish any opportunity to eat it, whether plain or diced up with feta and mint and tossed with a little olive oil. It makes me think of summertime. On set and at home, I try to always have a container of watermelon sprinkled with cinnamon because it elevates the flavor just a notch and makes it feel special.

The midpoint of the NBA season comes a little after the turn of the calendar year. As we settle into the new promises we've made to ourselves, basketball teams are busy evaluating how the promises they made to themselves over the summer are going.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.