As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for[…]
Month: February 2013
My Own Private Babylon
Ms. Flannery O’ Connor hits you over the head with a hammer in the best sort of way–you can tell she probably spent a good portion of her life reveling in John 2, when Jesus[…]
About Daniel Buckley
I am a graduate student studying english education in the deep south, and I am endlessly in love with Jesus, Flannery O' Connor, and other social pariahs.
Perichoresis and kenosis in Salinger’s “Teddy”
A few months back, I was reading a New York Times interview with Anne Lamott on her favorite books. When asked what book made her want to be a writer, she answered with J.D. Salinger’s Nine[…]
About Lauren D. Sawyer
I am a Ph.D. student at Drew Theological School studying Christian Social Ethics. Learn more about me at laurendsawyer.com.
Writing is an act of faith
Style takes its final shape more from attitudes of mind than from principals of composition, for, as an elderly practitioner once remarked, “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” This moral[…]
A Southern Introduction
I am obviously new to T&L. And introductions are best when kept short and sweet–so I figured I would give you a nice picture of my home from the most trustworthy source I can think of: the[…]
About Daniel Buckley
I am a graduate student studying english education in the deep south, and I am endlessly in love with Jesus, Flannery O' Connor, and other social pariahs.
Song of Myself (and some cake!)
Last weekend I baked a cake for myself–just because I’m awesome. I announced it to the ends of the earth–OK, mainly just to the boyfriend–and it had never felt truer. I work from home, transcribing[…]
About Lauren D. Sawyer
I am a Ph.D. student at Drew Theological School studying Christian Social Ethics. Learn more about me at laurendsawyer.com.
“Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot (Part I)
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards[…]
Why I Read Fiction
Three years ago, a friend of mine from way back in high school, now a high school English teacher, asked me to send her some book recommendations. I did, but I noticed that of the[…]
About Pat Loughery
I'm a software project manager and qa specialist by trade. I also hold a doctor of ministry degree and teach courses in Christian spirituality, both face-to-face and though e-learning systems. My doctoral dissertation looked at Christian spirituality in social networks. And I love to read.
Read what they aren’t reading
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only only think what everyone else is thinking. – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Lauren at Rest: after a long week of Updike
This has been a big week. I finished a first draft of my paper on the theology in Updike’s Roger’s Version. I love the thing, and yet hate it, knowing I couldn’t give Barth or Updike (or[…]
About Lauren D. Sawyer
I am a Ph.D. student at Drew Theological School studying Christian Social Ethics. Learn more about me at laurendsawyer.com.