In “The Greatest Story Ever Told” a philosopher and a religious studies professor explain why the Jesus story was inevitable if one believes that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told?
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Ibsen Advice for Resisting Trump
I reflect on Stockmann’s “you should never wear your best trousers when you fight for freedom and truth” in Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People.”
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It’s Your Limbs He Comes to Fill
Mary Karr’s poem on the resurrection imagines Jesus longing for life and returning to fill us in turn.
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On Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne
Cohen’s “Suzanne” is a poem about spiritual searching.
Why Jesus Used Parables
Why did Jesus use parables? Because fiction is more powerful than straight exposition.
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Berryman Predicted Trump’s America
Berryman’s “Dream Song 46” is an unsettling description of today’s America.
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Being a Man Improved God
Tylias Moss provocatively claims that being a man improved God. Her poem makes a compelling case.
Enter by the Garden Gate
“Paradise Lost” and Lewis’s “Magician’s Nephew” pick up on today’s Gospel reading, where Jesus warns against false prophets.
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The Dreadful Sound of Trump (not that one)
Wednesday On Monday I hosted what proved to be a lovely luncheon (an onion tart, ratatouille, and a trifle) for Vanderbilt University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss, who was in Sewanee to discuss a presentation I will be giving at the university on the card game Speculation. Jane Austen fans will recognize it as the game played […]
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