“Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go of our sane[…]
Author: 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.
Wendell Berry “How to Be a Poet (To Remind Myself)”
“How To Be a Poet” Wendell Berry (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work,[…]
Inseparable
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[…]
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
Exploring Theology *through* the Arts
Once in a while you can get shown the light / in the strangest of places if you look at it right — Robert Hunter, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, “Scarlet Begonias” One 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.
Where does art come from?
I told Lauren that I wouldn’t post anything here until I finished a paper that I’m writing, but apparently I lied. Oops. I’m working up a paper about how faith communities learn to discern together.[…]
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.