The Homebound Symphony

Alan Jacobs

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I am — let me take a deep breath — the Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University. I’ve been at Baylor for eleven years and before that taught for three decades at Wheaton College in Illinois. I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. I’ve been married for forty-four years and have a grown-up son. I am an Anglican Christian.

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• political Mottramism 2026-03-05 08:55am
• Darmok 2026-03-01 04:58am
• build 2026-02-18 03:53am
• The reading life, the reading death 2026-02-13 03:28am
• There but for the grace of Time go I 2026-02-11 08:58am
• Homer’s symmetries 2026-02-11 03:55am
• faster 2026-02-09 03:29am
• church and cinema 2026-02-06 03:59am
• DIY culture 2026-02-04 03:57am
• The Picard Principle 2026-02-02 03:01am
• excerpt from my Sent folder: Trek 2026-01-29 05:32am
• a crisis in my fandom history 2026-01-28 11:10am
• MacDonald and fantasy 2026-01-27 03:54am
• reorientation 2026-01-26 06:43am
• analog elites 2026-01-23 03:06am
• normalizing 2026-01-19 03:42am
• angels in the architecture 2026-01-16 03:46am
• Excerpt from my Sent folder: Markdown 2026-01-12 12:11pm
• done, not done, undone 2026-01-10 04:34am
• design amnesia 2026-01-02 04:14am
• expertise in action 2025-12-29 03:45am
• Daniel Treier, R.I.P. 2025-12-23 07:33am
• The Egyptian 2025-12-22 03:36am
• escape clause 2025-12-19 03:38am
• Claudia’s dream 2025-12-15 03:34am
• two quotations on historicizing 2025-12-10 03:16am
• where hope lies 2025-12-08 03:14am
• Hugh and Guy 2025-12-03 03:44am
• A post from The Homebound Symphony 2025-12-02 05:44am
• epigraph 2025-12-01 03:03am
• motion and machine 2025-11-28 03:30am
• excerpt from a letter to a friend 2025-11-25 09:35am
• Lady Jill Freud 2025-11-24 05:11am
• Malocchio 2025-11-24 03:57am
• like that 2025-11-21 09:00am
• a Euclidean mind 2025-11-19 05:32am
• WHA and DLS 2025-11-17 03:20am
• back to the brothers 2025-11-12 03:45am
• the acceleration of misrepresentation 2025-11-10 05:42am
• Tot 2025-11-05 03:42am
• Pynchon and Woolf 2025-11-03 03:40am
• towards Old Man Willow 2025-10-31 03:27am
• Murray and Mann 2025-10-29 10:21am
• two quotations on economics 2025-10-28 08:29am
• the Newman problem 2025-10-27 03:41am
• paranoia strikes deep 2025-10-24 03:23am
• pinches of Pynchon 2025-10-22 03:45am
• judgment day 2025-10-20 03:02am
• look who’s reasoning 2025-10-16 12:04pm
• one condition 2025-10-14 05:53am
• Socrates again? 2025-10-14 03:25am
• Ella’s Songbooks 2025-10-13 03:15am
• should Christians be anarchists? 2025-10-06 08:17am
• should Christians be leftists? 2025-10-05 11:24am
• revival, retrospection, assessment 2025-10-03 10:05am
• a slightly embarrassed announcement 2025-09-16 03:51am
• consolidation of myth 2025-09-15 05:20am
• chaplains in the fire 2025-09-12 03:59am