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Imagination and Reality Part 3: Where Do We Go From Here?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:04 — 47.7MB) This talk is the final in a series of three exploring the value of Imagination and its place in our culture. You can listen to Part 1: Imagination and Identity here and Part 2: A Divided Culture here. In this lecture, I address the question of “where do we go from here?” Our culture...
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Pain Sonnet 8: Seeking and Finding
I wrote this sonnet reflecting that the words “everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds” (Luke 11:10) are in a sense very alarming. What if we seek what is evil? We will, in the end, receive all that we desire. If we desire the good and seek diligently after it (even if we do not know precisely what we seek) we will find its source and fount in the living...
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Miscellany 18: Great Music, Making Changes, and a Bit of Fun
This last week I’ve been greatly cheered by a marvelous CD: Malcolm Guite’s new album Dancing Through the Fire. I knew it would be a great folk-rock album from the outset, having heard a few tunes from previews on Malcolm’s blog, but I was unprepared for how flat-out great it is. The various songs (all written & sung & with guitar played by Malcolm Guite) show how...
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Advent Reflections 2: Penitence and Patience – Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Patience, Hard Thing!”
Christmas is a joyous season, for love, fellowship, giving, and relaxation – or at least we recognize that it ought to be, even if we get caught up in the snarls of everyday life, trying to shape impossible expectations, family relationships, and Christmas shopping into something recognizably festive. Advent strikes a different note. Advent is about anticipation, but also...
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Advent Sonnet 2: Prepare the Way
My second Advent sonnet has its origin in my reflection on the Scripture reading appointed for the Second Sunday in Advent: Isaiah 40:1-11, a portion of which I have included below. Living as I do in Southern California at present, the image ‘highway’ rather unfortunately conjures up images of multi-lane freeways, concrete overpasses, billboards, and the ubiquitous LA...
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Surprised by Tolkien
In Enlivened by Lewis, Mary Mueller recounted her experience with C.S. Lewis’s writing; Lewis helped her see that “faith is no less than rational, but it is far more than merely rational.” Now in this second part, she tells the tale of how it was Lewis’s friend Tolkien who finally allowed her to “connect head and heart.” Read on! Imaginative...
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Pain Sonnet 7: Dashed Hopes
In this sonnet I took up the question of a different kind of pain, the pain of the loss of a joyful future for one whom we love. This was a difficult poem for me to write, because there are depths of this pain that I have not experienced in my own life, and yet I know many who have. My entry point to writing the poem became that of reflecting on those students for whom I have been,...
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