William Cowper understands the depressed ache of emptiness, which intensifies his longing for the Holy Spirit.
Tag Archives: Depression
Oh! For a Closer Walk with God
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Is America Selling Its Soul?
The 1941 film “The Devil and Daniel Webster” is unsettling by how relevant to our current day economic crisis is its story of America selling its soul.
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Walt Whitman as Suicide Prevention
At a time when he was feeling depressed and suicidal, Michael Bourne discovered that Walt Whitman could get him to step beyond his “endless, self-constructed maze of Self.”
Faustus, Case Study of a Depressive
Today I share the story of a student making the case that Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is a case study of a depressive.
The Restorative Power of Daffodils
Daffodils have been breaking out all over. St. Mary’s City has a little ravine that we refer to as “Daffodil Gulch,” and the flowers this year have been spectacular. Daffodil Gulch borders St. Mary’s River, and if one visits it on a sunny day and then looks beyond to the sparkling waters, one cannot help […]
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Fighting off Sickness and Death
It may have seem incongruous, in a website featuring old works, to have started off my first blog entry with a quotation from the contemporary Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko. But I find her faith that stories have the power to “fight off sickness and death” so close to my own view that it […]
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