Provocations

Provocations

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.... I'm back ...

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Neil Durrant
Jun 28, 2026
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I know that I have not been posting very much this year, and that perhaps some of you have wondered what happened to me.

Over the first half of this year my own thinking has developed. Not my philosophical thinking. Rather, my thinking about what I can offer you, not only on this platform but more broadly.

Over that time, a new project has emerged. I am very excited about it and I hope to share it with you all soon.

But for now, let me try to explain.

The Chasm

If you have been a subscriber for a while, you will know that I aim to take deep academic study in philosophy, theology and spirituality and to make it accessible. My goal here on Provocations has been to do the deep dive for you, into the source materials for different traditions, and then to write something that aims to be easy to understand with some measure of practical application.

In that process I have started to see the problem I am trying to solve more clearly. Yes, on the one hand, it is helpful to interpret these tradition…

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