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Mount Wonder – a novel inspired by IHP

15
Dec 2022
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My dad wrote a novel called Mount Wonder. It’s a romance based on his personal experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at KU in the 70’s. Given how influential that program has been for American Catholicism and with all of the issues in academia today, and because it’s a totally wild adventure, you’ll enjoy […]

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Some of the more interesting Searches on A Draught of Vintage

24
Apr 2012
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Here, friends, I offer to you something that I hope you find humorous.  I was recently browsing around the google analytics page for the Draught, and I noticed that I could see what “keywords” were bringing visitors to the site.  It occured to me that I ought to take the most amusing to give to […]

Category: Adventure, Crime and Punishment, Dangling, Hipster, Hipster Schola, Hipsters, Obituaries, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pedantriactivity, Sweet corn, The Strange Things, Truth, upright, Wagon Wheel  3 Comments  Tags: ,

No Salvation Outside of Poetry

07
May 2010
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Here is a wonderful talk given by Bishop Conley; Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Denver. The Title of the talk is “No Salvation Outside of Poetry.” Bishop Conley fondly recounts his experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP sometimes called Pearson Program) at Kansas University in the 70’s. https://www.archden.org/repository//TOT_03_12_10.mp3 “Poetry is the language of love”

Category: beauty, Bishop Conley, God and stuff, goodness, IHP, KU, love, mysteries, poetic knowledge, Poetry, Truth  2 Comments  Tags: ,
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