What isn’t there time for?

I was running Sunday morning before work. I heard Kate Bowler telling a story about walking out of a faculty meeting. “I don’t have time for this,” she said.

She was in her cancer treatments. She was acutely aware of the unprojectability of time. And the endless discussions that happen, even at distinguished places like Duke Divinity School, are sometimes not worth the time.

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