Such tragedy in this couple, and somehow, they survive. I am left, far more, with the question of why they return and permit return of the other. While there is clearly a redemptive movement in[…]
Thesis Blog: Questions
Some questions: What do we do with these bodies of ours? Do we love or despise them? Do they serve or conquer us? And why would God choose to be a body? I told Jamie[…]
Thesis Blog: “Let us not mock God with metaphor”
As I’ve begun research for my thesis–which, let’s be honest, will probably focus on John Updike–I re-found this poem of his. I’m playing around with writing on Updike’s juxtaposition (?) of sex and theology–how a[…]
Introducing my Thesis Blog!
OK. So this fall I’m supposed to start my integrative project, also known more impressively (maybe?) as my master’s thesis. This is why you haven’t heard much from me this summer: I am freaking out. But[…]
“Poem in Thanks” by Thomas Lux
Lord Whoever, thank you for this air I’m about to in- and exhale, this hutch in the woods, the wood for fire, the light–both lamp and the natural stuff of leaf-back, fern, and wing. For[…]
Reconciliation and Reconstruction in “The Chosen”
“Behold, a king will reign in righteousness . . . Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.” Isaiah 32:1, 3, ESV Last weekend, I finished[…]
The Most Important Things
We sat in silence, while my father sipped from his glass. “You are very quiet,” he said finally. “It all started with a silly baseball game,” I said. “I can’t believe it.” “Reuven, as you[…]
“Where is God now?”
I finally picked up Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and read it in less than 48 hours. The story follows a young German girl through Nazi Germany. At the end of the book, I was[…]
Naming: An Act of Justice
In his last post, Michael wrote, One of the principle ways literature and, more broadly, language, helps us see is that it enables us to name. With language we can clothe shapeless and silent abstractions[…]
Naming: A Way of Seeing
In her latest post Lauren wrote about literature’s ability to shape our perceptions of the world. The written word provides access points to God, to Truth; it conditions our vision. The literature we produce and[…]