February 2012
38 posts
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living; we live ourselves into new...”
– Richard Rohr (via calesellen)
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“No poem will give up its secret to a reader who enters it regarding the poet as a potential deceiver, and determined not to be taken in. We must risk being taken in, if we are to get anything. The best safeguard against bad literature is a full experience of good; just as a real and affectionate acquaintance with honest people gives a better protection against rogues than a habitual...
and the hours after that: “Admittedly, we can... →
hours:
“Admittedly, we can never quite get out of our own skins. Whatever we do, something of our own and of our age’s making will remain in our experience of all literature. Equally, I can never see anything exactly from the point of view even of those whom I know and love best. But I can make at least…
stthomasthedoubter:
Let the bones that you have...
I Got a Poem Published →
I just had a poem published at Burnside Writers’ Collective. It was originally titled “Feast: A Diptych,” with the two poems side by side…like a diptych. But apparently, that format doesn’t fit the format of the webpage. So, if you care to read, you’ll find “Feast II” a good ways below “Feast I.”
St Thomas the Doubter Church: Ash Wednesday: The... →
stthomasthedoubter:
On this Ash Wednesday, I was thinking about what NT Wright said about John the Baptist:
“John was a voice, shouting across the dreams, and perhaps the nightmares, of the Judaism of Herod and Caiaphas, the Judaism that told again and again the story of freedom but had no idea what freedom would…
“What then does being poor mean? I believe that a good definition does not exist;...”
– Gustavo Gutierrez Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas, pg. 72 (via mshedden)
“Earlier this month I witnessed a level of racial unity that was downright...”
– Matthew Milliner, “One Testimony About Race.” Read the whole thing. (via wesleyhill)
“Nice reflection:
There is nothing wrong, or course, with fantasy or with what...”
– Thomas Kinkade’s Cottage Fantasy | First Things (via hulga-joy)
“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay)
This certainly reflects my own experience. When I first began to move to a true rejection of science/faith dualism (extraordinarily difficult to do, even with a reasonable education), I was frequently disturbed by the vastness and complexity of nature, by the...
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of...”
– Saint Francis of Assisi (via brotherdavid)
“For to us Trinitarians (if I may say it with reverence) - to us God Himself is a...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via invisibleforeigner)
“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.”
– Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum (qtd. here)
“Q: So how do you see your faith and your art interacting, ideally?
A: That...”
– Wayne Roosa
HT: Jeffrey Overstreet
“It is exceedingly strange that any follower of Jesus Christ should ever have...”
– John Stott (via unafraidunashamed)
“The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via invisibleforeigner)
“After I wrote “The Falling Man” in 2003, I got a call from a friend of mine, who...”
– Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man, by Tom Junod - Esquire (via mshedden)
“She tells the story of Jason, a fourteen year old boy with profound intellectual...”
– Stanley Hauerwas Do Human Rights have a foundation in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures? – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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“All of life is story, story unravelling and revealing meaning. Despite our inability to control circumstances, we are given the gift of being free to respond to them in our own way, creatively or destructively.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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“Seeing our lives as stories is more than a powerful metaphor. It is how experience presents itself to us.”
— Daniel Taylor, The Healing Power of Stories: Creating Yourself Through the Stories of Your Life
“The “Socratic method,” so to speak, was conversational, and its results hugely...”
– Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century | Rightly Understood | Big Think (via ayjay)
“When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“Hence reading is self-mastery, because the self (and its affirmations) are held...”
– So Why Read (Fiction) Any More? « Commentary Magazine (via ayjay)
hours:
“ It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
— William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”
“There is only one reason why all grown-up people do not play with toys; and it...”
– GK Chesterton, On Tremendous Trifles, “The Toy Theater” (via constarrynight)
“Much of the soterian approach to evangelism today fastens on Jesus as (personal)...”
– Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel (via invisibleforeigner)
Godthings: “I have heard from many sources that... →
godthings:
“I have heard from many sources that you are very religious, Natalia Dmitrievna, but it is not because you are religious, but because of what I have experienced and felt myself, that I tell you that there are moments when one thirsts for faith like ‘parched grass’, and finds it, for the very…
hours:
“[Fyodor] Dostoevsky believed in a Christianity that is yet to come: when all of us would love selflessly, and so sacrifice ourselves to others, as Sonya does in Crime and Punishment. In that Christian phase, beyond civilization as we think we know it, could novels be written? Presumably, we would not need them.”
— Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why
“If he came to reveal his Father in miniature, as it were (for in these...”
– George MacDonald - Miracles of Our Lord (via georgemacdonald)
“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“But the worst day of all was when it hit me that Jesus’ own most fervent prayer...”
– Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow (via stephanieberbec)
January 2012
33 posts
“Many introverts feel there’s something wrong with them, and try to pass as...”
– The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance: Scientific American (via triadic)
“I have a nagging hunch that the gospel’s power in our own time is about to be...”
– Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers (via catechumenate)
“I’ve always thought liberal and conservative were terms used not to think but to...”
– Peter Kreeft (via firstbreath90)
“Truth is not a set of propositions; rather, truth is Jesus Christ.”
– Stanley Hauerwas (via firstbreath90)
“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...”
– E.M. Forster
(via writingquotes)
“I believe that the word gospel has been hijacked by what we believe about...”
– Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited (via invisibleforeigner)
“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“Ritual and Ceremonial things move not God, but they exalt that Devotion, and...”
– John Donne (via triadic)
“The renunciation of the ‘form of God’ and the taking on of the ‘form of a slave’...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale (via invisibleforeigner)
“The fact that the all-powerful nature was capable of stooping down to the...”
– Gregory of Nyssa (via invisibleforeigner)
nachtseite:
Wendell Berry reads his poem “How to...
“So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”