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Monthly Archives: October 2014
What Defoe Would Say about Ebola
Daniel Defoe’s “Journal of the Plague Year” has good advice for dealing with outbreaks, such as not to react with overly harsh and fearful measures.
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Making the Invisible Visible
Tuajuanda Jordan, our college’s newest president, turned to Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” to articulate her vision for the future.
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Enthralled by Anglicanism’s Theatricality
Spiritual Sunday Last month I posted on a wonderful Alice Munro short story, “The Age of Faith,” about a girl wrestling with issues of faith. In today’s post I look specifically at the protagonist’s experience with the town’s Anglican church since I myself am Anglican (or, as we call it in America, Episcopalian). Most of […]
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KC Royals Storm into World Series
The way the Kansas City Royals upended conventional wisdom in making it to the World Series is not unlike the chaos caused by Ariel in “The Tempest” to restore another royal to power.
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And a Woman Said, “Tell Us of Pain”
Is Kahlil Gibran right in seeing pain as a road to enlightenment. Or is this just wish fulfillment?
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Finding Hope in a Captured Fish
Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” works as a powerful meditation on hope.
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What Does It Mean to Hope against Hope?
What does it mean to hope against hope? Emily Dickinson and an analytic philosopher weigh in.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Hope is the thing with feathers", Adrienne Martin, analysis, analytic philosophy, Emily Dickinson, hope Comments closed
How Do You LIke to Go Up in a Swing?
In “Child’s Garden of Verses,” Stevenson captures the complex inner lives of children.
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