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
Category: Bibliography
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.
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.
Jayber Crow, pilgrims, and tattoos
If I had guts at all, I would get a tattoo that says, in my handwriting, “pilgrim,” an allusion to this passage in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow. I feel a kinship with Jayber and have a[…]
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.
Holden Caulfield and the Idiot Disciples
It’s been a while since I’ve read The Catcher in the Rye. To be honest, of Salinger’s books, it’s on the bottom of the list. (What can I say–I’m in love with the Glass family.) But[…]
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.
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.
The hour of lead–thoughts on grief
After great pain a formal feeling comes– The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs; The stiff Heart questions–was it He that bore? And yesterday–or centuries before? I haven’t learned to grieve well yet. In fact, I[…]
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.
God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing
God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks[…]
Whenever theology touches science, it gets burned
Really, what a preposterous glib hope, his of extracting God from the statistics of high-energy physics and Big Bang cosmology. Whenever theology touches science, it gets burned. – Roger Lambert, professor of theology in Roger’s Version by[…]
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.
Pig
“Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.” –Leon Bloy in the epigraph to A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving