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Nouwen and a Long Obedience with No Direction
In yesterday’s post I asked a question that twisted the popular 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 passage a bit: what if the changes effected in contemporary culture have led us to feeling more renewed in body but more diminished, even damaged, in … Continue reading
A Different Wasting Away
Long before I knew him as the author of Old School, one of my favorite novels, Tobias Wolff was the author of one of my favorite quotes: we are made to persist– that’s how we find out who we are. … Continue reading
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Provision
One of the reasons I am drawn to a consideration of moving “from one world to the next” is because I spend a good deal of time talking with students who are making their own transition from one world to … Continue reading
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Celibacy and the Reversed Revolution
More often than not, Ross Douthat’s New York Times columns serve as Rorschach tests for contemporary political and social issues. Today’s column, “The Redistribution of Sex,” has proved especially thought-provoking and line-drawing. And rightly so. You can read it here. … Continue reading
Limitless, Prodigal, and Dispersed
One does not have to read far into an essay written by Wendell Berry to sense deep loss, a kind of sadness that both tugs and pulls. As he acknowledges in his introduction to his most recent collection of writings, … Continue reading
Notes for a World’s End
At the begin of Paul Auster’s apocalyptic In the Country of Last Things, the narrator makes a significant observation: That is perhaps the greatest problem of all. Life as we know it has ended, and yet no one is able to … Continue reading
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9 Minutes of “40”
Sunday night at church we sang Psalm 40. It was a nice rendition of the song and all, but I couldn’t help but think that maybe we could’ve sung U2’s (shortened) version of the Old Testament song of waiting and … Continue reading
Singing as Responsive Confession
A few weeks ago, particularly the Saturday before Easter, I posted a video of Andrew Peterson’s “Is He Worthy?” video “sight unseen.” As many others, I did my best to hold off on listening to Resurrection Letters Vol. 1 until … Continue reading
“Not the only or the easiest way . . .”
Yesterday’s post of Charles Wright reading “Jesuit Graves” got me in the mood for listening to other authors reading their works. I mentioned Wendell Berry, whose essays and poetry I’ve enjoyed immensely over the last five years (and yet I … Continue reading
From Lent to Eastertide
Well, the forty days of the Lenten season have led to the fifty days of Eastertide. This, in turn, takes us up to the Ascension of Jesus and the day of Pentecost (and then to a summer and autumn of … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 