In this fine talk Andrea Sanders explores Wendell Berry’s vision of Sabbath, with slide glances at Dillard, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others.
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Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Vision
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In Penny’s Mysteries, Art Gets Murdered
In Louise Penny’s murder mysteries, art is an authentic spiritual channel that can be corrupted in the receiving.
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On Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne
Cohen’s “Suzanne” is a poem about spiritual searching.
What I Heard Was My Whole Self
Spiritual Sunday Today’s Gospel reading concerns Jesus’s awakening as he was being baptized by John. That moment was his own epiphany, when the membrane between the sacred and the profane was penetrated and he realized that God dwells within us (Luke 3:21-22): Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been […]
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Calling Out Trump’s War Enablers
Too many beltway insiders are singing the praises of Donald Trump’s foreign policy bellicosity, with Brian Williams unironically quoting Leonard Cohen’s “I am guided by the beauty of your weapons.” He should quote Dylan’s “Masters of War” instead.
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